Following the collapse of Redcycle's soft plastics recycling scheme, many Australians are now wondering what they can do with their used plastic items.
"Please dispose of your soft plastics in landfill, as there will be no recovery from Coles and Woolworths stores at this time," it says on its website. Soft plastics are a bit of a nightmare for the machinery used by councils to sort recycling, often becoming tangled and damaging it. Different data, this time from the Australian government's National Plastics Plan, the nation goes through 70 billion pieces of soft plastics each and every year – that's almost 3000 pieces per person.Australia leads the world in plastic use, with an average of 60kg used per person, per year.When Redcycle paused its recycling program, Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek was quick to weigh in.
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