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Australia's largest plastic bag recycling program has collapsed amid revelations hundreds of millions of bags and other soft plastic items dropped off by customers at Coles and Woolworths are being secretly stockpiled
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REDcycle crisis: Millions of plastic bags destined for landfill as soft plastics recycling scheme fails to restart
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