Recycling’s political paradoxes
This article appeared in the June 2024 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. As the Republican-majority Iowa Senate neared a final vote on controversial changes to Iowa’s beverage container deposit program, including one allowing most grocery …
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A deep dive into the petrochemical industry’s proposals for the global plastics treaty.
Source: How to create a ‘world without waste’? Here are the plastic industry’s ideas. | Grist
CalRecycle updates EPR covered materials list
The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery released an updated version of the list of materials covered under its extended producer responsibility program for packaging, making nearly 30 tweaks to the list.
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Senate Bill 707 (SB 707), a landmark, first-in-the-country, textile-recycling bill from Senator Josh Newman (D-Fullerton), passed the California Assembly
Seeking to quash a regulatory change that would remove over 100 million pounds of North American post-consumer resin demand per year, EFS-Plastics, Merlin Plastics and PreZero US have joined together to advocate for retaining recycled-content reusable plastic bags in California’s bag regulations.Continue Reading→
Source: Recycling firms unite to oppose reusable plastic bag ban
At a meeting of Oregon materials recovery stakeholders last week, two plastics recycling experts had a blunt message for attendees: Plastics recycling is in trouble.Continue Reading→
Source: To boost plastics recycling, take lessons from clean energy
Environment minister’s warning comes after interception of over 100 containers filled with toxic e-waste from Los Angeles port
The plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers with old ones — but not much is being recycled at all, and this method won’t curb the crisis.
Source: The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling Using Pyrolysis — ProPublica
Recycling has long been a bedrock of conservation and an income source for many people. But in California, getting nickels and dimes back for bottles and cans has become much harder.
The EPA, FDA and USDA highlighted efforts on compostable packaging, biobased materials, food date labeling, PFAS reduction and more in the National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics.
Source: 5 packaging priorities in the federal food waste strategy | Packaging Dive