Australia’s major supermarket chains will not receive any more time to move high-risk soft plastic stockpiles from the failed REDcycle recycling scheme after an extension request was denied.
Coles and Woolworths were issued with a draft clean-up notice for 5200 tonnes of plastic stored at 15 sites in NSW earlier this year.
New South Wales (NSW) Environment Protection Authority CEO Tony Chappel said the retailers have a responsibility to address the “very concerning” extent of stockpiled waste sitting in warehouses across the state.
“These stockpiles are stored from the floor to the ceiling, blocking entry ways and preventing adequate ventilation with the soft plastic estimated to fill about three and a half Olympic-sized swimming pools,” he said at the time….