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

Nice bit of greenwashing bullshit in there on your plastic packaging, Woolies!

The recycling logo fails to include the number to designate the type of plastic. Most local councils only accept some types of plastics, and recycling centres need to know the type of plastic. Without that number, nobody has a chance.

Oh, Woolies wants you to return the bag to the supermarket, and they'll recycle it for you? But, if you follow the link to https://www.woolworths.com.au/recycling, Woolies says they don't accept plastic bags for recycling. The scheme is on hold because their recycling partner, Planet Ark, was found to be full of shit. It's an elaborate lie designed to make the customer believe Woolies cares about recycling.

Coles is in on it too. In June 2023, Coles announced a three-year partnership with Planet Ark. Presumably, this is to produce some meaningless PR to pretend they care about the environment. *slow clap*

You may remember Planet Ark from their previous environment fraud supermarket scams:
- 15-cent plastic bags that were advertised as "green" because you were supposed to reuse them, but were not in fact green because nobody could use them more than once, and they were made of heavyweight plastic that's even worse than the previous type of plastic bag.
- Plastic bag recycling drop-off points at supermarkets that resulted in scores of Planet Ark warehouses around the nation packed to the rafters with plastic bags that never got recycled.

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