How to recycle your cat food pouches 6th january 2020 6th january 2020 xgemx 0 comments cat collection food mums advice plastic sachets waste if an average cat has 2 sachets of wet food a day that means that cat goes through 730 plastic sachets a year and sadly most of those sachets aren t widely recyclable.
Cat food pouches recycling.
Unlike the big brands purr and miaow wet food pouches are sugar free and only contain named ingredients.
Always check with your local waste hauler or community recycling center to verify a specific material is acceptable for single stream recycling.
Through the free nationwide programme you can now recycle any of your pet food packaging into new products and prevent them from ending up in.
First you must sign up to take full advantage of the terracycle programmes but it s completely free.
But they re utterly spoiled and instead you buy them.
Finally you can recycle pet food pouches.
In order to recycle this waste stream properly please only send accepted packaging see accepted waste above.
Plastic wet food pouches and plastic dry food bags.
Just enter the material and your zip code for a list.
We have partnered with terracycle to launch the pet food recycling programme a free recycling programme for your empty whiskas pouches and for other flexible plastic dry food and treat packaging.
It s time your cat got the food that they deserve.
Terracycle has partnered with bakers felix and purina to create a free recycling programme for pet food plastic pouches and flexible plastic bags.
Leftover product from the packaging and please rinse the wet food pouches thoroughly and let them dry before placing them in a box.
You can drop off your pet food packaging across selected cats protection centres and charity shops.
When we had four cats we used to feed them cat food from cans a can per day between the four of them as a treat alongside unlimited dry biscuits but after losing two of them cans were resulting in too much food waste and we had to switch onto pouches.
Foil trays tins hard plastics paper based food bags non pet food packaging any human food packaging most of the other types of pet foods foil tin paper.
Please make sure all excess product has been removed i e.
Terracycles pet food recycling programme allows users to recycle all pet food plastic pouches flexible plastic bags.
Yes you could just get your beloved kitty a massive bag of dry food and be done with it.
You can also find out where to drop off specific materials in your area here.
Look for the how2recycle icon for help recycling any of our products.
For dry or mixed feeding check out the other subscription options.