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Soft plastic recycling is slowly coming back - will it work this time?

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For most of the 2010s, we had what felt like a decent solution to the soft plastics problem, you could drop off your soft plastics at your supermarket for recycling by a company called REDcycle - but they went under in 2022 after it was revealed they'd been stockpiling their collections, unable to meet the demand.

Since then, major supermarkets formed the Soft Plastics Taskforce to trial a new recycling system. The rollout means bins are back in some stores - so what's different in this approach and most importantly, will it work?

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For most of the 2010s, we had what felt like a decent solution to the soft plastics problem, you could drop off your soft plastics at your supermarket for recycling by a company called REDcycle - but they went under in 2022 after it was revealed they'd been stockpiling their collections, unable to meet the demand.

Since then, major supermarkets formed the Soft Plastics Taskforce to trial a new recycling system. The rollout means bins are back in some stores - so what's different in this approach and most importantly, will it work?

  continue reading

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