Ethically Kate: Here’s what happens when you recycle soft plastics

Lastly, your soft plastics may be melted down into garden edging and cable covers. While all of these options sound like great solutions at a surface level, I personally don’t recycle my soft plastics and I hope there will never come a time when we can recycle our soft plastics with our household recycling. A few years ago, we had a bin labelled “soft plastics” that sat beside our rubbish and recycling bins. Embracing this realisation while keeping track of global concerns towards items like plastic fence posts shedding microplastics and harming our soils, I removed my soft plastics bin. If you do recycle your soft plastics, make sure they are clean and dry before dropping them off.