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To self-checkout at my local grocery store, I have to clear a reminder that any soft plastic recycled through the store over the last x years was in fact not re
by lmpdev 2y ago
To self-checkout at my local grocery store, I have to clear a reminder that any soft plastic recycled through the store over the last x years was in fact not recycled and stockpiled around Australia in warehouses “waiting” for it to become economically feasible (it never did)
REDcycle (effectively Australia’s lone large-scale soft plastic recycling effort) folded and it was a big brouhaha
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/30/redcycles-collapse-and-the-hard-truths-on-recycling-soft-plastics-in-australia https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/30/redcy...