Revelations a mind-numbing amount of items dropped off by customers at Coles and Woolworths are being secretly stockpiled in warehouses and not recycled have blown the lid off these voluntary programs and shown exactly what happens when consecutive governments fail to implement mandatory recycling targets.
The Greens and community groups like Boomerang Alliance have been fighting for these laws for years.
Every day the Government fails to take meaningful action on recycling by introducing mandatory targets is another day our environment suffers and another day that Australians miss out on the thousands of job opportunities that could be created in a true circular economy.