Shared database vital for better recycling
With new state laws requiring more and more reporting of waste generation and diversion data, the Re-TRAC team launched a detailed database to improve efficiency and information sharing.
Marissa Heffernan worked at Resource Recycling from January 2022 through June 2025, first as staff reporter and then as associate editor. Marissa Heffernan started working for Resource Recycling in January 2022 after spending several years as a reporter at a daily newspaper in Southwest Washington. After developing a special focus on recycling policy, they were also the editor of the monthly newsletter Policy Now.
With new state laws requiring more and more reporting of waste generation and diversion data, the Re-TRAC team launched a detailed database to improve efficiency and information sharing.
A newly introduced bill in Congress is reviving parts of the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act, with a focus on environmental justice.
After California's legislature passed a host of recycling and reuse-related bills, the state's Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery is shifting into high gear to turn the mandates into reality.
Intel is trying several angles in pursuit of its goal to send zero waste to landfill, including redesign of circuit boards for easier recycling and educating consumers on how to recycle via a video game.
A recent teardown analysis by iFixit found that Microsoft made progress on its repairability improvement promises with the Surface Pro 9.
After several years of gains in recycled content usage, Amcor is setting a new recycled content goal of 30% by 2030, tripling its previous target.
Online delivery packaging, takeaway cups and plastic drink bottles could see new targets for reuse and recycled content under proposals from the European Commission.
Dow and WM are partnering on a pilot program that will give some Chicago residents the option of recycling plastic films curbside.
Mechanical recycling should take priority over chemical recycling, but there will need to be several technical solutions to the world's plastic problem, argued panelists on a recent Product Stewardship Institute webinar.
Mechanical recycling should take priority over chemical recycling, but there will need to be several technical solutions to the world's plastic problem, argued panelists on a recent Product Stewardship Institute webinar.
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