The 2025 legislative session in New York ended, and legislators' hopes to pass extended producer responsibility for packaging this year did as well. 

Extended producer responsibility, community engagement and chemical recycling were all hot topics for Colorado service providers, business owners and municipal representatives at a recent conference. 

Five years after its billion-dollar founding, the Alliance to End Plastic Waste is taking what it learned from one-off projects and shifting its attention to country-scale change. 

Extended producer responsibility, community engagement and chemical recycling were all hot topics for Colorado service providers, business owners and municipal representatives at a recent conference. 

Texas legislators became the first in a "red state" to send a right-to-repair consumer electronics bill to the governor's desk, and the bill differs in several ways from other recent laws.

California is finalizing the implementation of changes to its deposit return system for beverage containers, while Maine legislators sent a bill to the governor that would delay previous passed changes. 

More than 90 countries called for a renewed focus on a global plastics treaty during a recent United Nations Ocean Conference, as the clock runs down toward the next round of treaty negotiations. 

California is finalizing the implementation of changes to its deposit return system for beverage containers, while Maine legislators sent a bill to the governor that would delay previous passed changes. 

Bills adding solar facility recycling requirements in Texas and changes to Illinois' e-scrap recycling program are sitting on their respective governors' desks. 

Members of the California extended producer responsibility for packaging advisory board have identified dozens of barriers to implementation and offered up possible solutions in a recent report.