What happens to your recycling

Follow the journey of a kerbside bin to our Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in Victoria.

When you watch this video about one of many MRFs around Australia designed to sort commingled recycling you will:

  • learn how optical sorting machines recognise and separate materials according to their size
  • find out why items like soft plastic and hazardous waste don’t belong in recycling streams
  • discover how each waste stream can be reused and recycled into new products.




Page last updated: Thursday, 29 May 2025

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