A new soft plastics recycling scheme is replacing Australia’s failed REDcycle. Will it mean consumers have to pay more?

Mon, 6 Oct 2025 11:10:26 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/05/new-soft-plastics-recycling-scheme-will-replace-australia-failed-redcycle-how-will-it-work>

"Almost three years after the collapse of the national soft plastics collection
and recycling program REDCycle, the consumer regulator is set to greenlight an
industry-led replacement scheme.

But there are concerns product manufacturers and the major supermarkets will
shift the program’s costs on to consumers rather than change their own
behaviour of producing and stocking vast quantities of soft plastics that
mostly end up in landfill.

Additionally, the scheme will only recycle a tiny fraction of the soft plastics
used in Australia and, at least initially, none of it will be turned back into
packaging."

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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