12 Sep 2018

Soft plastics stockpiled as new recycler found

From Morning Report, 7:35 am on 12 September 2018

Packaging and other material that's being put in soft plastic recycling bins is ending up in storage, because the Australian company that was processing it has been inundated.The soft plastic recycling bins have popped up in supermarkets across the country in recent years, in an effort to cut down the amount of packaging that's ending up in landfills. But the organisation that runs the scheme needs a new recycler to take it all. RNZ reporter Sarah Robson has the story.