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Soft recycling bins are back JO KENT It’s been five years since locals in the region have been able to recycle their soft plastics, but with eight new collection points across Richmond, Nelson and Motueka, that’s all changed. Soft Plastics Recycling Scheme manager Lyn Mayes says with Future Post’s new processing plant in Blenheim, transporting the bales has put Nelson Tasman back on the recycling map. “We launched the recycling scheme in 2015 but had to stop it in December 2018 when offshore plants processing New Zealand’s plastic no longer wanted it.” That’s when the scheme started a supply agreement with Future Post, who make fence posts from soft plastic. “They were just setting up production in Auckland, so we resumed collections on a limited basis in Auckland in mid-2019 but, sadly, not
from the Top of the South as the logistics of transporting the soft plastics back to Auckland were too difficult.” The recycling scheme takes bread bags, frozen food bags, toilet paper packaging, confectionery and biscuit wrap, chip bags, pasta and rice bags, courier envelopes, shopping bags, and sanitary hygiene packaging ¬- basically anything made of plastic which can be scrunched into a ball. The scheme collected 500 tonnes of plastic last year, which is around double what was collected in 2021 (260 tonnes). This year, they expect to double the volume again to 1000 tonnes of soft plastic. Future Post managing director Jerome Wenzlick says the company has built their own machinery and figured out how to use all the different types of waste plastic that
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