Author: Daisy Dumas
More than a year after the demise of REDcycle, Coles and Woolworths customers are still incorrectly being told they can return soft plastic food packaging to stores, where they will be handled by the now-defunct recycling program. So what’s going on?
What are soft plastics? Simply put, they’re plastics that can be scrunched into a ball. The term covers bread and cereal packets, vegetable packaging, chocolate bar wrappers and clingfilm. Australians use 70bn pieces – or about 538,000 tonnes – of soft plastics each year, according to the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (Apco).