The operators behind the failed REDcycle program have been charged by Victoria’s Setting Safety Authority.
RG Applications and Companies, which operated the nation’s largest mushy plastic recycling scheme, is going through three counts of failing to adjust to the EPA’s information-gathering course of.
The REDcycle program was paused final month after it was revealed that tens of millions of plastic luggage have been saved in warehouses as an alternative of being recycled.
Greater than 3000 tonnes of soppy plastics have since been present in 9 warehouses throughout Melbourne’s outer suburbs and in northeast Victoria, the EPA says.
The authority alleges RG Applications and Companies offered solely partial info of identified storage websites.
“Extra info was obtained by means of investigations by EPA officers, together with working straight with trucking and logistics firms,” the authority mentioned in an announcement.
“The EPA shouldn’t be happy there’s a cheap excuse for this non-disclosure, resulting in the costs.”
The utmost penalty for every offense is greater than $165,000.
Investigations are persevering with, with the EPA flagging the opportunity of additional fees for breaches of environmental legal guidelines.
The authority can also be working with the 9 warehouses and the Division of Land, Water and the Setting to discover a strategy to safely recycle the plastics.
AAP has contacted REDcycle for remark.
REDcycle has beforehand denied claims its recycling program failed, saying “unexpected circumstances” led to the suspension of the mushy plastics recycling scheme.
-AAP
