California-based ecomodernist Michael Shellenberger has said that the collapse of Australia’s largest plastic bag recycling program was expected as plastics cannot be recycled and are often shipped to poor nations where it risks being dumped into the ocean.
It comes amid revelations that the REDcycle team was stockpiling instead of recycling millions of soft plastics—plastic that you can scrunch in your hand, including grocery bags, bubble wrapping, snack food wrappers, and squeeze pouches—posing a potential fire and environmental risk.
