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.

Colorado's producer responsibility organizations move to implement the state's extended producer responsibility law.

The new law's cartons and film targets could add 100,000 tons of plastic contamination to California's paper exports annually, a panelist said during a recent panel.

With the California legislature adjourned, packaging, food-waste and EPR advocates are watching a single date, Sept. 30, to see which of their priorities become law.

The Circular Action Alliance (CAA) has had a relatively short, but very impactful, history as it takes a key role in EPR programs in several states.

Reusable cup and foodware programs are expanding across US venues, arenas and festivals, but the systems driving them look little like their European counterparts.