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Ring Carriers

Yes ring carriers can be recycled.

RECYCLED
Where?

  • These can now be recycled at supermarkets who operate a flexible plastic packaging recycling scheme.

How?

  • All flexible plastic ring carriers used to hold cans.
  • See a visual here.

DID YOU KNOW?

  • The scheme is sponsered by Hi-Cone.
  • Plastic ring carriers are very harmful to wildlife. In 1987, the Associated Press reported that as many as one million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals were killed every year by six-pack rings. Read more here.
  • Over 300,000,000 ring carriers have been collected and given new purpose over the last 25 years.

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