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CalRecycle seeks to maintain current fees for e-scrap program

California officials say they will have enough money to continue running the state’s e-scrap recycling program without hiking fees. Staff at the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) are proposing to maintain at current levels the fees consumers …

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How the recycling industry is preparing to tackle solar panels

In some ways, solar panels present some of the same recycling challenges as old TVs. They carry a high cost to recycle properly, have limited commodity value and contain hazardous metals. At the same time, relatively few downstream processors recycle …

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More Than 100 Leading Businesses Call for EPR for Packaging

Today for the first time, more than 100 businesses in the packaging value chain, together with more than 50 other organisations, publicly recognise that without Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) packaging collection and recycling is unlikely to … Read More…

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Episode 111: Talking Advocacy, Science & Advanced Recycling

In this episode of NothingWasted!, we chat with Joshua Baca, VP of plastics at the American Chemistry Council (ACC). ACC is the U.S.’ largest trade association representing the leading companies engaged in the business of chemistry; it aims to d Read …

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EPA budget request emphasizes recycling

The Biden-Harris administration requested $11.2 billion for the U.S. EPA for 2022, and the agency proposes to slightly increase funding to the EPA’s Waste Minimization and Recycling Program. The EPA on May 28 announced President Joe Biden’s budget request, which …

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Curbside plastic bale values continue to take off

The price of post-consumer PET bales rose 37% over the past month. Meanwhile, the price of natural HDPE scrap crossed the $1 threshold for the first time. The national average price of post-consumer PET beverage bottles and jars sits at …

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What’s on the Horizon for Federal Food Waste Reduction and Prevention Policy? Part 2

Advocates for federal policy around food waste reduction and prevention have been working for years to move the needle in this space; meanwhile we get close to 2030, the year that EPA has called for a 50% cut in food …

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What’s on the Horizon for Federal Food Waste Reduction and Prevention Policy? Part 1

Advocates for federal policy around food waste reduction and prevention have been working for years to move the needle in this space; meanwhile we get close to 2030, the year that EPA has called for a 50% cut in food …

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The Return of Recycling Markets

Donnie Downer. That’s what I felt like for the last three years when speaking about markets at recycling conferences. The news was almost uniformly depressing. Following the Chinese government’s 2017 announcement about ending recyclable paper and pla … Read More…

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California eyes efforts to spur US ratification of Basel Convention

State lawmakers and activists in California want the Biden administration to prioritize a treaty to curb waste dumping in developing countries. Meanwhile, Palo Alto is struggling to account for where exported waste ends up. … Read More…