AI audit systems could become a compliance tool under EPR, but who pays for them is still being worked out.

Decades of voluntary packaging work have hit an economic wall. EPR and stronger regulation are what will move the needle.

From Michigan's fraud cases to Hawaii's scaled-back audits, a new CRI guidebook maps where the 10 US deposit states are losing money and what they can do about it.

Battery fires are pushing recycling toward becoming "an uninsurable industry," NSAC founder Heidi Sanborn said.

WM's Ryan Nordt says e-commerce, battery fires and state EPR laws are reshaping what reaches the company's facilities, and that recycled-content requirements could be the policy that pulls more material through to domestic end markets.

The city of St. Louis has moved from free alley recycling to a new model to combat its recycling contamination rates.

California will pull disposable nicotine vapes from store shelves by 2028 under a law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, while a companion bill gives schools a hazardous waste route for vapes confiscated from students.

NAW is challenging an Oregon judge's ruling in favor of the state's extended producer responsibility law.

The BRACE Act would let lithium-ion battery recyclers store batteries on site under universal waste rules and give EPA 18 months to write a new battery rule.

Newsom signed a battery EPR expansion and a nitrous oxide sales ban but vetoed a bill setting spending rules for SB 54's $5 billion plastic mitigation fund.