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Sezen Bakan

Woolworths, Coles and Aldi join to tackle soft plastics crisis, amid calls to ‘start afresh’

Consumers are no longer able to return soft plastics to their local supermarkets for recycling. Photo: TND

Australia’s biggest supermarkets are banding together after the REDcycle debacle, but a sole focus on recycling could be neglecting the bigger plastic issue.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission on Friday announced it has given Woolworths, Coles and Aldi conditional interim authorisation to form part of a Soft Plastics Taskforce, which is set to be initially chaired by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.

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