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How to recycle your plastic bottle lids

Single-use plastic bottle lids are too small for recycling sorting machines to cope with, which is why they can’t be recycled in your kerbside bin. As a result, they end up in landfill and our oceans. Read on to find out where you can recycle them instead.

May 2, 2023

Plastic lid recycling locations

Claw Environmental Recycling Centre

5 Forge St, Welshpool WA 6106

You can drop off your collection of plastic lids free of charge.

  • Any size lid up to 10cm wide can go into their blended mix.
  • The lids do not have to be sorted into colours or types of plastic.
  • They will also take lids larger than 10cm, but please separate them from the others as they will be recycled in a different stream.
  • Please remove any food/drink/chemical residue or any other contamination (including the paper insert found inside milk bottle lids).

For more information, visit: Claw Environmental plastic lids recycling

St Nic's Recycling Hub

Drop off your clean, plastic drink bottle lids on the 3rd Saturday of every month between 9.00am and 11.00am - St Nicholas Anglican Church, Cnr Poynter Drive and Beach Road, Duncraig.

St Nic's Recycling Hub

Bottle Top Hill

A volunteer-run community event for clean, plastic drink bottle tops. Monthly (2nd Saturday) from 8.00am to 10.00am - 56 McLean Street, Melville, Anglican Church of the Holy Cross.

Bottle Top Hill  

Containers for Change

Some  plastic lids can be recycled via the government’s Containers for Change scheme, (where you drop your eligible containers for a 10c refund).  

Containers for Change will accept lids from eligible containers only. These are the lids from the containers which are eligible for the 10c refund. There is no refund for the lids.  

Remove the lids from all the containers and drop them at your local Containers for Change depot in a separate bag. There is no refund for the lids, but they are processed to make a variety of items and are diverted from landfill.

Containers for Change will not accept lids from the following:

  • Plain milk containers
  • Flavoured milk more than 1 litre
  • Fruit & vegetable juice more than 1 litre
  • Cordials, concentrated fruit & vegetable juices

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