Coles and Woolworths have offered to deal with mountains of soft plastic stockpiled in three states after a private recycling scheme failed.
Coles and Woolworths have offered to take back stockpiled soft plastic following the REDcycle collapse.It has since emerged the plastic was not being recycled but stockpiled, with 32 stashes found so far.
It's also facing charges in Victoria, alleging it failed to tell authorities how much plastic it was holding, and where. "We know this may take some time. We hope REDcycle will allow us to help get the best outcome for the environment and restore community trust in our recycling systems," Woolworths Group CEO Brad Banducci said.
But some observers have questioned how Australia's only national soft plastics recycling scheme was left to a self-described, well-meaning "team of seven mums" at REDcycle, with no obvious oversight by government.That's the entity Victoria's environmental watchdog has charged with three counts of failing to comply with a regulatory notice seeking the locations and amounts of stored soft plastics.
"As we are considered a very small business with under 50 employees, we are not required to publicly disclose financial statements," a spokesperson recently said.
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