South Carolina's e-scrap program will be seeing significant changes in the coming year after the governor signed House Bill 4775 into law.  The bill eliminates weight targets for electronics collection and instead sets up easier access to drop-off sites, reforming the state's current extended producer responsibility (EPR) program for electronics to more closely resemble that of Illinois.  South Carolina is...

PepsiCo announced new objectives and shared its progress toward circular packaging targets in its 2021 environmental, social and governance report. 

Bottle bills were popular this legislative session, with updates and expansions passed or considered in several states.

Connecticut middle school students, with help from processor UltraPoly and other entities, recently collected 2.5 million plastic caps and recycled them into end products as part of a lesson on microplastics.

A facility in Massachusetts marked U.S. location number four for global ITAD company Wisetek.

A survey from one industry company finds U.S. consumers would trade in more used mobile phones if there was a price guarantee and better customer service in general.

NOVA Chemicals is planning a pilot-scale reactor for plastics pyrolysis in 2022, the latest recycling-related move from the resin manufacturer. In its 2021 Environmental, Social and Governance report, NOVA also reported that it recycled more than 99% of its industrial scrap PE, about 7,000 tons, and diverted another roughly 1,200 tons of PE from landfill, sending lumps and strands created...

Several companies have released new products that are pushing plastics recycling forward, including PCR-specific additives and 83% recycled content films. Here's a roundup of innovation news.  Additives for PCR Avient Corporation recently introduced a PCR Color Prediction Service for polyolefins and PET resins and a polyolefin antioxidant called Cesa Nox A4R Additives for Recycling.  The additives are specifically designed to...

Industry leaders mostly expressed support for California's recently signed extended producer responsibility bill, though some said they still had concerns about its far reach. After three years of trying to pass different versions of an extended producer responsibility (EPR) bill, Senate Bill 54 was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on June 30. The new law creates a producer responsibility organization...

California's printed paper and packaging extended producer responsibility bill passed the state Senate unanimously today, just before the deadline to pull a plastic-tax measure from November's state ballot.