Coles and Woolworths say they will meet the deadline to begin disposing of tonnes of soft plastic waste stockpiled by collapsed company REDcycle.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority gave the companies until May 12 to remove parts of the stockpiles found in huge stashes at 19 sites across the state alone.
Another 15 sites in Victoria contain stockpiles of the plastics, six in South Australia, two in Tasmania, and one each in Queensland and Western Australia.
Woolworths and Coles took control of REDcycle’s stockpiles shortly before the company filed for voluntary administration.
The soft plastic recycling program was wound up in November 2022 after it emerged the plastics consumers had returned to supermarkets for recycling were instead put into storage….