Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) is expected to increase differential assessments for all carpet sold in California on Jan. 1, 2023, pending approval by the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery.

The City of New York Department of Sanitation (DSNY) is piloting on-demand collection services in Staten Island for textiles and batteries.

EverestLabs raised $16 million in series A funding to help it scale its robotic and AI sortation offerings.

The Foodservice Packaging Institute (FPI) released the CompostAble Chicago study report, which evaluates the correlation between use of compostable foodservice packaging and increased capture of front-of-house food scraps.

The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) released a report finding that improving how the world deals with waste is critical to keeping planetary warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.