Category: REDCycle

Supermarket Giants Begin Moving Soft Plastic Stockpiles

Coles and Woolworths say they will meet the deadline to begin disposing of tonnes of soft plastic waste stockpiled by collapsed company REDcycle. The NSW Environment Protection Authority gave the companies until May 12 to remove parts of the stockpiles found in huge stashes at 19 sites across the state alone. Another 15 sites in Victoria…


Clock Ticks for Supermarkets to Shift Plastic Stockpile

Australia’s major supermarket chains will not receive any more time to move high-risk soft plastic stockpiles from the failed REDcycle recycling scheme after an extension request was denied. Coles and Woolworths were issued with a draft clean-up notice for 5200 tonnes of plastic stored at 15 sites in NSW earlier this year. New South Wales (NSW) Environment Protection…


Coles, Woolworths Takes Responsibility for 12,000 Tonnes of Unrecycled Plastics

About 12,400 tonnes of soft plastic from suspended recycling program REDcycle could fall under the control of Coles and Woolworths as the two supermarket giants offer to pick up the bill. REDcycle, Australia’s largest soft plastic recycling scheme, paused its activities in November 2022, after The Age newspaper revealed it had been stockpiling plastic for…


Push to Wind up Company Behind Failed Plastic Recycling Scheme

An Australian court will be asked to wind up the company behind a soft plastics recycling scheme that’s left mountains of waste across the country. Authorities have discovered more than 30 stockpiles of plastic across Victoria, New South Wales (NSW), and South Australia after the REDCycle scheme was paused last year. Efforts are now underway…