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Was redcycle ever effective? I don’t know much about it, wasn’t available near us. Did they make much impact on soft plastic waste?
I’m in country VIC, if they put this in the woolworths that just opened here, I’ll do it. Always interested in reducing soft plastic into landfill.
Just like many Tyre Recyclers, they made money by storing the waste “until an effect way of processing is developed”.
The current way of effectively recycling vulcanised tyres is shipping to a 3rd-World country with no environmental or OH&S where they are processed in a few different ways.
There were quite a few fly-by-night tyre recyclers who would rent a factory, fill it with tyres and then do a runner; pocketing the disposal fees. Then the Landlord would have a warehouse full of used tyres that they couldn’t do anything about.
Effective as a marketing ploy yes.
If it was effective we'd not need to leep making millions of tonnes of NEW plastic.