Australian Supermarkets Form Taskforce to Combat Collapse of Recycling Program

A Woolworths truck is parked outside a Coles Supermarket in Melbourne, Australia, on May 25, 2015. Quinn Rooney/Getty Images

Supermarket giants Coles, Woolworths, and ALDI will form a task force to address the suspension of a soft plastic recycling program following the collapse of REDcycle.

REDcycle halted its soft plastic program on Nov. 9 citing “unforeseen challenges exacerbated by the pandemic” with its downstream recycling partners.