Shoes, Sunglasses and Road Base
Your 10¢ containers are sorted by material, baled, and sold to accredited recyclers who turn them into new products (mostly new 10¢ containers!). Western Australians have returned over 5 billion of them. Here’s what they become.
PLASTIC BOTTLES
New plastic bottles, plus food containers, shampoo bottles, furniture, bins, construction material, Pilot B2B pens and textiles for shoes and sunglasses.
GLASS BOTTLES
New glass bottles, and road base once the glass has been crushed and sorted at a facility here in Western Australia.
DRINK CANS
Mostly new drink cans, plus food containers, kitchen foil, takeaway packaging, utensils, electronics, building products and construction materials.
DRINK POUCHES & CASKS
Cardboard outers become recycled paper, juice pouches become plastic furniture, and cask inners are turned into construction and logistics pallets.
DRINK CARTONS
Tissue paper, paper products and construction board, all made from the paperboard that drink cartons are built from.
BOTTLE LIDS
Construction components, made from lids that are shredded and processed separately from the containers they came off.
Go behind the scenes
Follow a 10¢ container from the moment you return it to the moment it becomes something new.
Recycling 10¢ glass bottles
From the depot to the furnace, follow your glass bottles on their way to becoming new ones.
Recycling 10¢ drink cartons
From the Self-serve Kiosk to the pulper, see how a carton is turned back into paper.
Recycling 10¢ plastic bottles
From a Drop & Go station to the purifier, see what happens to your bottles after you return them.