The nations biggest supermarkets have been granted conditional authorisation to continue in-store soft plastics recycling operations following the suspension of the now defunct REDcycle program.
The announcement was made by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on Friday, permitting the ongoing collaboration between Coles, Woolworths and Aldi to manage the soft plastics stockpile.
The Melbourne-based REDcycle program was the only of its kind, launching return-to-store soft plastics recovery points over 2000 Coles and Woolworths supermarkets in 2011.
After suspending operations in November 2022, it was revealed REDcycle had been secretly storing hundreds of millions of bags and other soft plastic in warehouses, instead …
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