The pause follows a fire at a Melbourne recycling facility, which is also linked the closure of Coles and Woolworths soft plastics recycling
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More than 1m used printer cartridges returned as part of a Planet Ark recycling program are being held in storage until at least the middle of next year.
Planet Ark has told the Guardian the printer cartridges can’t currently be recycled because of a June fire at a recycling facility in Melbourne.