Box Divvy has developed its own soft plastics collection and recycling pipeline, diverting about 2.5 tonnes from landfill each month. When Australia’s supermarket soft plastics scheme collapsed in 2022, it exposed a weakness in the country’s recycling system. Millions of households had been encouraged to separate “scrunchable” plastics, yet the supporting infrastructure proved unreliable. Flexible plastics such as bread bags, produce bags, chip packets and bubble wrap cannot be placed in kerbside bins because they jam sorting machinery. Globally, less than 10 per cent of plastic is recycled. In Australia, soft plastics are among the least recovered materials, largely excluded from kerbside systems and reliant on voluntary drop off schemes. Box Divvy, a community based food network operating across NSW, Victoria and the ACT, has developed its own soft plastics collection and recycling pipeline, diverting about 2.5 tonnes from landfill each month. The network operates more than 350 ...