Australia’s antitrust regulator, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, has proposed granting the nation’s three major supermarket chains a year to resolve post-consumer soft plastic recycling.
In November 2022, the ACCC granted conditional interim authorization to the Coles, Woolworths and Aldi chains to solve the problem after the only post-consumer collection company, REDcycle, initially suspended its return-to-store soft plastics recycling program.
REDcycle used about 2,000 collection bins stationed within the supermarkets to collect “scrunchable” soft plastic, usually high density polyethylene, low density PE and polypropylene products, including shopping bags, cling wrap, bubble wrap and food packaging.
Melbourne-based…
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