Manufacturers will voluntarily subsidize post-consumer carpet sortation for an additional year.
Manufacturers will voluntarily subsidize post-consumer carpet sortation for an additional year.
California regulators are threatening to bring the hammer down on a carpet stewardship group, saying it has failed for years to grow carpet recycling.
The head of California’s recycling department will reject a stewardship group’s carpet recycling plan, putting at risk carpet sales in the state of 40 million people.
Bob Peoples, executive director of the Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE), speaks at the May 16 CalRecycle meeting.
A stewardship group has pledged to submit a new carpet collection and recycling plan to California regulators, as state officials this week detailed their plans for bringing the hammer down.
Two PET recycling articles and a high-stakes battle over carpet stewardship drew readers’ clicks in April.
Drones patrol Britain’s beaches in search of shoreline plastics, and prices rise in the U.S. for recovered HDPE and PET.
About 4 percent of post-consumer carpet was recycled in 2014, down slightly from the year before, according to an industry report.
New York City shoppers will be hit with a new bag fee, and the U.K.’s carpet diversion rate continues to rise. Continue Reading
Shoppers in California will pay a little more for carpet starting Jan. 1, and the price hike will help support recovery of the material.