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Furor erupts after sudden end to Australian soft-plastic recycling scheme

An Australia-wide recycling company has been forced to stop collecting post-consumer plastic film because of a lack of facilities to recycle it.

Melbourne-based RG Programs & Services Pty Ltd, which trades as Red Group, established REDcycle a decade ago. It installed collection bins at Australia's two largest supermarket chains, Coles and Woolworths, to collect "scrunchable" soft plastic. Plastics News understands there were about 2,000 collection points.

Elizabeth Kasell, Red Group Managing Director, said in a statement that REDcycle's "offtake partners" can no longer take the plastic, which was being stockpiled in warehouses. The collection bins were quickly removed from supermarkets when the scheme abruptly ended.

Kasell said Close the Loop Ltd., a publicly listed, Melbourne-based recycler and REDcycle's "largest volume offtake partner" had a "significant fire" in June 2022 at its TonerPlas facility. Close the Loop says the TonerPlas line is being upgraded and will be back in full production by July 2023, after which it will "require large volumes of soft plastic material to meet demands."

» Publication Date: 15/11/2022

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