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[–] zik@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

More time to do what exactly? Soft plastics are effectively unrecyclable. There are no commercial scale recycling plants in Australia which can recycle soft plastics. And even if we did build them the depolymerisation process which soft plastics require takes so much energy it'd be more environmentally sound to landfill it anyway.

The whole thing's a mess and really the only solution is to stop producing as much soft plastics.