Over 11,000 metric tons of film have been discovered since REDcycle, Australias largest film collection program, went under in 2022. | Canetti/Shutterstock
Three Australian supermarket chains will have another 12 months to address a plastics stockpile left over from the failure of the countrys largest film collection program.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission extended its conditional special permission to Coles, Woolworths and ALDI to work together to handle the over 11,000 metric tons of films found last year to have been stockpiled across the country by the now-defunct REDcycle.
The three supermarket giants needed the antitrust regulators permission to collaborate, or they would run afoul of antitrust laws.
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