Recycling plastic car bumper bars while creating real employment.
Boxhead Plastics collects plastic bumper bars from smash repair workshops across Greater Sydney and the Central Coast, recycles them into feedstock for Australian manufacturers, and creates paid employment for women re-entering the workforce after the justice system.
The Australian automotive industry generates 206,200 tonnes of plastic annually. Only 9.5% is recycled*. Boxhead was built to change that one bumper bar at a time.
*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.
Businesses & Organisations
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
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 are not automated processes; they require 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.