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	Podcast:		Please Explain
	Episode:		‘Millions of plastic bags go to landfill’: inside the REDcycle collapse
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:13:02
	Publish Date:		2023-02-14 18:01:00
	Description:		Hundreds of millions of plastic bags have been sent to landfill since the collapse of Australia’s largest soft-plastics recycling scheme. Revelations uncovered by the Age and Sydney Morning Herald last year, found plastics dropped in REDcycle bins in supermarkets across the country - were stockpiled and not recycled for years on end. Over 12,000 tonnes of soft plastics have since been found at 32 locations across Australia. Today, law and justice editor for the Age, Chris Vedelago on how this scheme went so wrong, and what’s next for plastic recycling. Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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