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Australia has launched a new soft plastics recycling scheme three years after REDcycle’s collapse, but the program expects to recycle less than one per cent of the nation’s waste. However, the ...

Australia's first large-scale soft plastics recycling facility is processing huge loads each day, turning waste into a useful ...

SAN DIEGO — Approximately 310 million pounds of plastic packaging is produced in the world every year. In fact, soft plastic packaging does not belong in your blue recycling bin because it jams up ...

After the collapse of soft plastic recycling program REDcycle nearly three years ago, it's been almost impossible for individuals to recycle soft plastics in Australia. But supermarkets and councils ...

Bhavna Middha receives funding from the Australian Research Council's Discovery Early Career Researcher Award programme. Ralph Horne receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Kingston and ...

However, the replacement scheme, named Soft Plastic Stewardship Australia (SPSA), is largely restricted to capital cities in four states and is only set to recycle 4-5 per cent of the nation’s soft ...