House lawmakers tasked with crafting a U.S. EPA budget are standing behind the agency’s waste minimization and recycling program, they wrote in a report this week.
Colin Staub is a reporter at Resource Recycling. He can be contacted at [email protected].
House lawmakers tasked with crafting a U.S. EPA budget are standing behind the agency’s waste minimization and recycling program, they wrote in a report this week.
Funding for North Carolina’s state recycling support program has been largely preserved in a compromise budget approved by both legislative chambers last month.
Demand for recovered commodities sent to China may further diminish as another round of import inspections threatens to slow or shutter Chinese processors.
Two pieces of legislation recently introduced in Connecticut aim to reshape the state’s deposit system. One bill expands the state’s 5-cent deposit on beverage containers, and the other removes it.
Oregon’s bottle deposit program has begun accepting used glass bottles for refilling.
With the frequency of container deposit-related legislation, advocates often look to other states for examples of what to expect when a new law is proposed, and there’s no shortage of states to refer to.
The Golden State’s container redemption program differs from bottle bills in other states, and according to a new study, that might be bringing it down.
The future of recovered materials exports to China remains hazy, but leaders from the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) made a few things clear after a recent trip to Hong Kong and Beijing.
Glass continues to draw sharp focus in municipal programs across the country, as market realities, transport logistics and contamination form a barrier to cost-effective recovery.
Washington, D.C. will join the ranks of a select few municipalities next year when it begins accepting a wider array of food-service packaging for recycling, including paper-based coffee cups.