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programme , led to a waste crisis in Australia . However , this ban actually helped accelerate conversations around how to best dispose of paper , plastics and glass , as the country exported over 3 % of its recycling to China , amounting to 1.25mn tonnes in 2017 .
“ To counteract this growing concern around plastic , CUB has started to remove the plastic rings on its six-packs at the Cascade brewery – which part of our journey to remove all plastic among its breweries in the future ,” says Clysner . Previously , more than one million plastic six-pack ring packages were leaving CUB each year , leading the business to look at ways to reduce the volume of unrecyclable materials across its brewing activities .
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