Nelson first to test kerbside soft plastics collection
The plastics will be recycled and used to make fence posts.
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Should soft plastics be collected in Kerbside recycling?
You might know someone who's a diligent recycler, and makes sure their soft plastics are bagged up and dropped at their designated supermarket bin. But for many, plastic waste like chip packets, bread bags and thin plastic packaging gets put in the too-hard basket, i-e. the rubbish bin. It's estimated thousands of tonnes of soft plastics are sent to landfill each year, so if you could put them in with your kerbside recycling would that get more people onboard? Reporter Luka Forman and cameraman Nick Monro have more.
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Business.Scoop » The Packaging Forum, Nz Food & Grocery Council To Lead Initiative On Plastic Packaging
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Door opens for some South Islanders to resume recycling soft plastics
For those in many parts of the South Island, it's been a long time since they could recycle soft plastic waste.
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