Soft Plastic Pick-Up
Our New Collection Service!
Soft Plastic Pick-Up helps keep your soft plastic waste out of landfill.
Although we do our best to minimise soft plastics here at CERES Fair Food, we know they can be hard to avoid in daily life.
This new service ensures your household soft plastic is put to good use with our Melbourne recycling partner, APR Recycling.
how it works
We'll pick up your soft plastics when we deliver.
After purchasing a Soft Plastic Pick-Up bag:
1. Rinse and dry your soft plastics, then add to bag. When full, tie securely to close.
2. Leave it for our driver to collect with your next delivery. That’s it!
What Can I recycle?
Recycle soft, scrunchable plastics that are clean and dry. These include:
- Plastic food packaging
- Freezer bags and zip locks
- Foil backed confectionary wrappers
- Plastic carry bags
- Bread bags
- Cereal box liners
- Bubble wrap
- Chip packets
- Pet food bags
We cannot recycle these items. Put them with household recycling, green waste or rubbish:
- Plastic bottles and lids
- Rigid containers
- Compostable or biodegradable packaging
- Polystyrene and foam
- Cardboard
- Metal
- Cans or tins
- Plant pots
- Produce stickers
- Food residue or liquid
FAQs
Soft Plastic Pick-Up:
Our Soft Plastic Pick-Up service helps keep hard-to-recycle household soft plastic out of landfill and puts them to good use instead – they are processed here in Melbourne with our recycling partner, APR Recycling.
After purchasing a Soft Plastic Pick-up bag:
1. Rinse and dry your soft plastics, then add to bag. When full, tie securely to close
2. Leave it for our driver to collect with your next delivery
That’s it!
The soft plastics we collect are processed here in Melbourne with our recycling partner, APR Recycling.
It’s no surprise we love minimising waste and doing things together that just make sense. Since we started delivering groceries in 2010, we’ve worked hard to design systems that minimise, reuse and recycle as much as possible, all made possible by our wonderful community of customers.
APR Recycling are an innovative Melbourne company and have been recycling our warehouse soft plastics since 2025. They have recently expanded their capacity which means we can too.
We’re excited to keep helping households shop with less plastic and packaging, and work together to divert resources from polluting waste streams.
Yes we will accept soft plastics from all sources, as long as they are in line with our included items listed above.
Our red Soft Plastic Pick-Up bags are made from 100% recycled plastic. Once these bags are filled and returned to us, they go straight to APR Recycling to be recycled again.
Yes! Our red bags are available to purchase at CERES Grocery, and once filled they can be returned to CERES Grocery for recycling. Find out more about CERES Grocery or contact the team on (03) 9389 0122.
More soft plastic questions? Head to FAQs for the full rundown.
