Tanya Plibersek says Coles and Woolworths must ‘step up’ to fix plastic recycling crisis
by Graham Readfearn and Lisa Cox from on (#65M7V)
REDcycle collections stopping from Wednesday with factory fire and downturns in market demand' blamed
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Environment minister Tanya Plibersek has called on Australia's two biggest supermarket chains to come up with a viable solution" after they were forced to hit pause on their major soft plastic recycling scheme.
REDcycle announced late yesterday it was pausing collections at Woolworths and Coles, where customers were returning more than 5 million pieces of soft plastics every day.
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