AMERIPEN announced the second session of its 2024 webinar series, “Preparing for Packaging Producer Responsibility in the U.S.”  The session, “Pulling Data Together,” will be held March 20. 

French chemical recycling firm Carbios signed a feedstock supply agreement with producer responsibility organization Landbell Group to supply Carbios’s in-development commercial facility in Longlaville, France.

A study by the Composting Consortium provided data on contamination rates in U.S. composting facilities, finding that plastic is 85% of the contamination composters receive by volume.

Pellitteri Waste Systems promoted David Pellitteri to president, the third generation of his family to fill the role. 

The REMADE (Reducing Embodied Energy And Decreasing Emissions) Institute’s chief technology officer will speak at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, this month.

The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) announced the 14 recipients of the 2024 Technical Division Awards. 

The U.S. EPA’s first virtual working session on batteries will be March 19 at 2 p.m. Eastern. Sign up here.

Waste-to-energy company WastAway announced Todd Smith has been appointed as chief communications officer.