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Going to waste: two years after REDcycle’s collapse, Australia’s soft plastics are hitting the environment hard (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure this is an accurate summation of the situation.

Recycling pretty much doesn't work practically or economically, never has. It's not possible to collect plastic, and convert it into a product that has value, at a cost of less than that provided value.

If this was possible, companies would do it. (I'll forego a rant about one of the few virtues of capitalism, anyway).

Redcycle collapsed after a fire at a warehouse or something. That's a bit like saying my wife asked for a divorce after I accidentally shit myself.

[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

I thought I remembered reading they came out with this big promise to recycle soft plastics amd for everyone to redirect soft plastics to them.

Then reality hit and they found out soft plastics aren't that easy to recycle, and tried to keep things going anyway, in a way that wasn't representative of the company's situation