REDcycle

The COVID-19 pandemic has been blamed for hundreds of millions of plastic items not being recycled as inten...

"We want to be back up and running as quickly as possible, but we also want to do the responsible thing." "That means government, brand owners, supermarkets and the community," she said. Kasell said for recycling to be successful, the supply chain needed to be "in total balance" and right now that wasn't happening. REDcycle had been criticised for not declaring to the Australian public the recycling program had been suspended due to overflow, but Kasell said the company was completely reliant on Australian manufacturing recycling partners. "That supply and demand must be in perfect harmony all the time," she said. "We are experiencing a huge challenge now because, thanks to the pandemic and everyone being at home and generating a lot of plastic packaging, we have seen increases of over 350 per cent in our network," Kasell told Today.