Images of a massive secret stockpile of soft plastics collected for recycling have been revealed in northwest Sydney, exposing the grim extent of the failed REDcycle scheme.
Footage from Nine News shows hundreds of bales of bundled soft plastics stacked at a facility in Marsden Park one of 15 similar sites across NSW.
The plastics were intended to be recycled through a national scheme led by Melbourne-based company REDcycle, founded in 2011.
Australians were encouraged to drop off their soft plastic waste at bins in nearly 2000 Coles or Woolworths supermarkets across the country to be given new life.
But the scheme was suspended in November 2022 after an investigation revealed REDcycle stopped recycling and was instead secretly hoarding t…
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