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Major supermarkets to continue cooperation on soft plastics recycling

The ACCC has granted authorisation to Coles, Woolworths and ALDI, to continue their collaboration to recycle stockpiled soft plastics and implement the pilot in-store collection program until 31 July 2026. The ACCC first authorised...

Supermarkets to continue cooperation on soft plastics recycling

The ACCC has granted interim authorisation with conditions to Coles Group, Woolworths Group and ALDI to continue their collaboration on soft plastics recycling. In June 2023, the ACCC granted authorisation that allowed the supermarkets to collaborate through...

Viva Energy and Cleanaway partner to address hard-to-recycle plastic waste

Cleanaway and Viva Energy have entered into an agreement to undertake a prefeasibility assessment of a circular solution for soft plastics and other hard-to-recycle plastics currently sent to landfill and transform them...

Metcash signs up to National Plastics Recycling Scheme

Australia’s leading wholesaler Metcash will be supporting the National Plastics Recycling Scheme (NPRS) to help close the loop on soft plastic waste. The NPRS is an industry-led scheme created to fill the gaps...

Coles and Woolies offer to save REDcycle soft plastic

Coles and Woolworths have made an offer to REDcycle to take control of its stockpiled soft plastic and provide safe storage of the material while recycling solutions are explored. Following Soft Plastics Taskforce...

Coles kicks off Sustainability Week

Coles is kicking off its second annual Sustainability Week for more than 118,000 team members across Australia. The week is aimed at celebrating the supermarket’s recent achievements. It also further embeds Coles’ new Sustainability...

A tactic to tackle plastic

The Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) will develop Australia’s largest industry-led plastic recycling scheme. The scheme aims to collect and recycle nearly 190,000 tonnes of plastic packaging per annum by 2025. AFGC will...

New Coles carpark created with recycled soft plastics

Coles has partnered with recycling organisations RED Group and Replas to create and install a concrete slab carpark made partly out of recycled soft plastics. Under installation at Coles Horsham in Victoria, the...
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