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.

California's vape ban was written to close the exact loophole that let disposable devices survive a ban in the UK.

Flexible film, generating 550,000 tons/year of waste, has end markets for only about 10% of it, panelists said at a CRRA conference roundtable.

California's list of SB 54 responsible end markets won't exist until four days before the state's Jan. 1 compliance deadline, and CAA is warning jurisdictions not to rush their exemption filings in the meantime.

Of California's 56 SB 54-covered packaging categories, Alameda County jurisdictions collect fewer than a third of them uniformly, and the clock on compliance is running out.

Editor's note: Policy for batteries and electronics is among the sessions at the 2026 E-Scrap Conference, Oct. 26-28 in New Orleans. Register today! A bill overhauling California's battery stewardship law has cleared the Legislature and now awaits Gov. Gavin Newsom's signature. As Resource Recycling reported last week, SB 501, authored by Sen. Benjamin Allen (D-Santa Monica), passed the Assembly 62-14...

A federal preemption bill over packaging labels just moved one step closer to reality on Capitol Hill.

After a five-day trial and 71 pages of findings, Judge Michael Simon says the state's packaging EPR law is constitutional.

AI adoption has moved from optional upgrade to competitive necessity. Companies restructuring around it is growing faster than most leaders realize.