Recycling is made easy thanks to Recycle Mate

While recycling opportunities keep evolving, it's important that we move away from ‘set and forget’ recycling behaviours to actively seeking new information. But luckily, there's an app that makes staying up to date easy!

Nine in ten Aussies say that recycling is important. We want to do the right thing and feel that the more we can recycle, the better. Cos the less we send to landfill in those red bins, the better right? Wrong! The irony is that, in order to recycle more, we have to recycle less. And we certainly have to recycle better!


No matter how much we’d like to send our stuff to a 'good' place, we have to stop clogging the recycling stream with non-recyclable items. Our aspirational recycling can contaminate an entire batch of recyclables, forcing everything to be sent to landfill. That’s right - it potentially only takes one non-recyclable item to contaminate an entire load of recyclables.

 

Knowing the best way to recycle and whether to recycle certain items can leave many of us stumped. Recycling rules vary from council to council because they have access to different recycling facilities, and each facility has unique equipment and capabilities and is able to process a different set of items.

 

But good news! A new app removes the recycling guesswork, no matter where you are in this big land of ours! The free Recycle Mate app helps you recycle anywhere in Australia – whether at home, at a friend's house or when you're on holidays. Just take a photo or type the name of an item you would like to know more about and Recycle Mate will give you disposal advice specific to your location.
 

Recycle Mate has catalogued the different bin systems for all local government areas across Australia. What's more, it moves with you, so you can use it whether at home, when staying with friends and family or when renting a holiday home.


The app uses AI to identify your waste and recyclables to find the best local disposal option. Every photo taken using the Recycle Mate app and every question asked helps continually grow Recycle Mate.


Covering all areas of Australia, Recycle Mate provides information for every council kerbside recycling system. For those times when an item can’t be recycled at home through kerbside bins, the app now has over 40,000 away-from-home reuse and recycling options and this number is continually growing.

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