How the plastics industry shifted responsibility for recycling onto you, the consumer
- Written by Jonathan Baker, Senior lecturer in Strategy, University of Adelaide
Australia’s recycling system has been lurching from one crisis to another for decades. Soft-plastic schemes are collapsing, kerbside contamination is on the rise, and states are still struggling to coordinate a coherent national approach.
But the deeper problem isn’t technical. It’s historical — and moral.
For 70 years, the...
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