The future of a popular recycling service that allows half a million Victorians to put plastic bags in their kerbside recycling bins is in doubt following the crisis precipitated by China’s crackdown on waste imports.
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| Four Victorian councils are reviewing a service that allows residents to put plastic bags in recycling bins. |
Flexible plastics recycling was introduced with great fanfare in 2016 and 2017 by four pioneering Victorian councils – Nillumbik, Cardinia, Hobsons Bay and Boroondara – which said the “exciting change takes us one step closer to eliminating waste sent to landfill”.
Read the story from The Age by Jewel Topsfield - “Councils to review collecting plastic bags in recycling bins.”
