#redcycle — Public Fediverse posts

Coles and Woolworths granted more time to deal with REDcycle waste in hope of saving it from landfill
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-30/coles-and-woolworths-given-more-time-to-deal-with-redcycle-waste/103908010

REDcycle was never about recycling.
The "return-to-store" soft plastics program was never about recycling.
Those thick, soft plastic bags were never about "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle".
Calling plastic bags "multi-use" was a lie intended to transfer the responsibility of dealing with plastic to customers.
It was about telling customers they could continue using plastic bags. Supermarkets didn't want to change how they do things, and they didn't want to deal with the marginally increased cost of using paper bags. That's it.

The government should be suing supermarkets into the dirt for their years of fraud, malpractice, and environmental vandalism.

In the meantime, the fix is far more straightforward than the naysayers claim:
- Do not let retailers "self-regulate" use of plastics.
- Make it illegal to give customers plastic bags.

#AusPol #REDcycle #Coles #Woolies #Plastic #PlasticBags #Recycling

Soft plastic recycling is back after the #REDcycle collapse – but only in 12 #supermarkets. Will it work this time?

https://theconversation.com/soft-plastic-recycling-is-back-after-the-redcycle-collapse-but-only-in-12-supermarkets-will-it-work-this-time-223232

#softplastics #reduce #reuse #recycle or #refuse #fossilfuels ? #Coles #Woolworths #Aldi

REDcycle’s collapse and the hard truths on recycling soft plastics in Australia
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/30/redcycles-collapse-and-the-hard-truths-on-recycling-soft-plastics-in-australia

Finally, the mainstream media has discovered the scam.

A few months ago, I wrote about supermarkets greenwashing by offering non-existent recycling programmes:
https://rants.au/@BinChicken/111378843288140672
This scam is an excuse for supermarkets and food companies not to change their packaging and a feel-good exercise for customers who don't care about their effect on the environment as consumers.

#Greenwashing #Recycling #Environment #Woolies #Coles #PlanetArk #REDcycle

The soft plastics issue in Oz is a fucking crisis! WhatDoYouMean on YT breaks down the glorious clusterfuck that is the REDcycle's failed "because of its overwhelming success" soft plastic recycling business plan.

#REDcycle #SoftPlastics #Recycling

https://youtu.be/lpDlwiF7v3Q

soooo it's been quite a while now since the #RedCycle program was paused, and while it was problematic in the first place (https://www.abc.net.au/education/war-on-waste-what-happens-to-plastic-packaging/13723580), does anybody know if we're any closer to a new soft plastics recycling program in Australia?

Or, even better, any closer to getting as many soft plastics as possible out of the retail landscape?

#RedCycle #Recycling #Plastics #SoftPlastics #Australia

The implosion of #RedCycle has really made me hyper-aware of how much waste the household is putting out. I know that #Recycling has been in crisis for a few years since China stopped accepting a lot of our plastics, and my local council stopped accepting glass at the curbside, but REDCycle really brought it home.

Our household has multiple #spoonies (people with disability and limited capacity to cook etc) so we use quite a lot of convenience foods. As my #MentalHealth is getting better (vs where I was a year or two ago) I’m slowly trying to shift things more toward homemade, unpackaged, buying in bulk, minimally processed foods, etc.

We’re never going to be #PlasticFree for so many reasons, but I’d like to hope we could halve our #PlasticWaste, or better.

I’m/we’re already:

- drinking kombucha, iced tea, home-made cordials and/or soda stream soda water instead of buying bottled drinks
- saving jars and bottles for #preserving,, then using them for condiments, jams, pickles, and canned fruit and veg to save buying them
- #baking bread, crackers and sweet treats (when we can)
- buying dry goods in bulk, using our own containers where possible
- getting meat from our CSA, wrapped in paper and/or #compostable vacpacks
- getting fruit and veg from the garden, foraged, or unpackaged where possible (we still get some canned and frozen)
- making stock, soups, stews, and other meals to freeze for later convenience
- #composting food waste and paper

#sustainability

Respect to Allen’s for using paper bags instead of plastic on Jaffas, but I still haven’t quite forgiven #Nestle for the whole water thing.

Still, recognition where it’s due: paper packaging is better. Once #RedCycle stopped I really saw how much non-recyclable plastic packaging is used. #Woolworths & #Coles clearly aren’t buying back the RedCycle plastic for use on their “fresh food”, so local grocers it is. #Smiths #Cadbury etc products are easy to give up until they change their packaging.

Good news for anyone still wanting to #recycle soft-plastics in the Hornsby/Ku Ring Gai area; the Council depot at Thornleigh is still collecting soft-plastics, they are part of a different program with a different factory partner; they’re not aligned with the failed #RedCycle program or its currently inoperable factory. And yes, we all know we should reduce plastic use, but sometimes it creeps in. #plastic

So uh, what are we doing with soft plastics lately? We're all just hoarding them yeah? I've just thrown my third tightly-packed bag of bags into the shed... #Australia #RedCycle #ItsAllBroken

Australia’s Soft Plastic Recycling Debacle - We’ve all been told to cut back on waste to help prevent environmental crisis on E... - https://hackaday.com/2022/12/15/australias-soft-plastic-recycling-debacle/ #currentevents #greenhacks #recycling #featured #redcycle #recycle #waste

@iris @FrancescaJ @64 look what my girl chose in the store today. So that's one less to sit in #RedCycle's warehouse.
Of course, it's Nestle (can't find the accent button sorry) so that may or may not be acceptable to some people's ethics. But confectionery can/should be in paper.