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Towards the end of 2019, six warehouses’ worth of plastic waste was left in limbo across four Melbourne suburbs after recycler SKM was declared insolvent.
The pile of milk bottles, PET plastic containers, paper and cardboard may have proved a headache for the state government at the time but it did serve as inspiration for new ABC vertical series The Disposables, which premieres this Friday.
Told through a mix of smart phones, security cameras, laptop cameras and news bulletins, the story picks up as a mys...