Recycling scrap plastic while creating real employment
Boxhead Plastics collects scrap car bumper bars and plastic throughout the Sydney regions turning waste into valuable feedstock for Australian manufacturers creating meaningful paid employment for women rebuilding their lives after involvement with the justice system.
The Australian automotive industry generates 206,200 tonnes of plastic annually. Only 9.5% is recycled*.
Boxhead Plastics was built to increase that rate.
*Australian Plastic Flows and Fates Study 2020-21 National Report
Find the right place to start
Boxhead Plastics works with smash repair workshops, corporate partners, grant bodies, and individual supporters.
Smash Repairers
Need bumper bars collected from your workshop? See the collection area, pricing and preparation requirements, or book your next pickup.
Other Plastics
We collect more than just plastic bumper bars. We also collect bread and milk crates, other PP, wheelie bins, and more. Contact us to find out more.
Customers
Talk to us about supporting paid employment, building recycling capacity, or exploring a practical circular plastics project.
Funders & Supporters
See what we have achieved, how the model works and how you can support the work.
➙ See our impact
What we've achieved
Businesses & workshops served
How it works: From bumper bar to recycled feedstock
The Boxhead model is three connected steps that depend on each other.
1. We collect
Smash repair workshops from across Greater Sydney and the Central Coast book a scheduled collection. We pick up their prepared plastic bumper bars and provide a waste docket after every collection.
2. Sort and process
The collected bars are manually checked for contamination, then shredded and granulated into polypropylene flakes, called feedstock.
3. Material is reused
The processed plastic is supplied for use in Australian manufacturing, closing the cycle and creating a circular economy.
The recycling creates the work
Sorting and processing bumper bars is not an automated process; it requires people.
Boxhead provides paid shifts and practical work experience for women rebuilding their working lives after the justice system. In 2025, the employment program operated five days a week and delivered 3,210 paid work hours.
The collection service moves plastic out of workshops, supports Australian remanufacturing and creates paid employment through the same operation.
Work with Boxhead Plastics
Book a bumper bar collection
Arrange a weekly, fortnightly, monthly or on-request collection for your workshop.
Explore a corporate partnership
Support paid employment, recycling capacity or a defined circular-plastics opportunity.
Make a donation
Support the continuing work of Boxhead Plastics. Eligible donations may be tax-deductible.