New Multi-Million Dollar Recycling Facility Aims to Solve Australia’s Soft Plastic Problem

A new, state-of-the-art recycling facility will be built in Kilburn, a suburb of Adelaide, Australia, that will recycle soft plastics.

The multi-million-dollar facility will follow up on the collapse of the REDcycle program, which was created to collect and recycle soft plastics before it was discovered that the plastics were being stockpiles in warehouses across parts of Wales, and Australia. The new initiative is backed by a $20 million investment from the federal government with the expectation of diverting 14,000 tonnes of waste from landfills annually.

"This will be the biggest and the largest single-minded recycling facility in Australia," Peter Gregg from Recycling Plastics Australia said. 

"We have people who have soft plastic and want to recycle it and increasingly there's a hungry market that wants to take that material and turn it into packaging,” said Acting Premier Susan Close.

The facility is expected to be up and running within the next year.

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