The clips that hold your favourite brews can now be recycled at the West Metro Recycling Centre.

How it works – closing the loop on beer clip manufacture

Thanks to a partnership with Donut Waste, the West Metro Recycling Centre now collects beer clips for reuse. The collected clips go through a commercial dishwasher and are on-sold to breweries. The on-selling covers the cost of the collection process, making the scheme viable. The clips are then re-used for the packaging of new beer.

Once the can clips are no longer reusable, they are sent to Visy where they are converted into HDPE resin (high-density polyethylene), which is then returned to PakTech so they can create more clips.

Beer clip criteria

Plastic beer clips from 4 and 6 packs (all colours accepted).

Free drop off for Member and Participating Council residents.

For more info, contact Sharka at Donut Waste.

Fun facts

• Beer can clips are so sturdy they can be reused 50+ times before needing to be recycled into new beer clips.
• Beer clips are made from 100% recycled HDPE (ie. the recycled plastic from milk cartons, some shampoo bottles, household cleaning supplies, etc)

Before you go

Got small plastic lids? The West Metro Recycling Centre has a separate recycling bin for those too.