Latest News About Woolworths Soft Plastic Recycling

Updated 2026-05-12 07:01

Here’s the latest on Woolworths soft plastic recycling:

Illustration (example): a map of Woolworths stores with active soft plastics drop-off bins, showing five-state coverage and a note that 310,000 kg of plastic has been processed to date (illustrative).

If you’d like, I can pull the most recent store list in your area (Los Angeles is not in Woolworths’ footprint, as Woolworths operates in Australia and New Zealand) and translate this to comparable programs in your location, or provide a brief summary of how the SPSA framework is shaping future outcomes.[2][3]

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Supermarket Collection of Soft Plastics recommence at ...

Soft plastic packaging drop off recommences at Woolworths stores, including the Illawarra, Southern Highlands and South Coast. From Woolworth’s web site the following stores in these areas should have a collection bin, similar to the one above somewhere near the front of the store.

www.circularplasticsillawarra.org

Woolworths expands soft plastics return network

More than 700 Woolworths supermarkets across five states are now accepting soft plastics again, marking a major expansion of Australia’s growing soft plastics recovery network.

www.packagingnews.com.au

Woolworths brings back in-store soft plastics collection points in more than 700 stores

With this initiative, we have made it easier for Aussie families to recycle their soft plastics as part of their weekly shop. Around 40 million pieces of soft plastic, or 310,000 kgs, have been collected and processed as part of the renewed recycling program to date. The plastic collected through the scheme is also being given a second life in Woolworths stores by being converted into products such as in-store wall panelling and Woolworths own-brand bread bags, which are made with 30 per cent...

www.woolworthsgroup.com.au