Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner
Curbside recycling will likely continue uninterrupted in America’s fourth-largest city, but it comes at the expense of glass recovery.
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Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner
Curbside recycling will likely continue uninterrupted in America’s fourth-largest city, but it comes at the expense of glass recovery.
Vermont regulators have chosen Call2Recycle to manage the nation’s first extended producer responsibility program for single-use batteries.
Representing a dozen battery manufacturers, battery stewardship organization Call2Recycle will submit to Vermont regulators a plan for the collection and recycling of single-use batteries.
Nearly 6,000 tons of batteries and cell phones were collected for recycling by Call2Recycle in 2014, marking a new record for the manufacturer-backed group.
An artificially intelligent optical sortation device has started sorting some of the millions of pounds of batteries collected across the U.S. by stewardship group Call2Recycle.
The North American product stewardship group Call2Recycle collected a program-best 12.6 million pounds of batteries in 2015, a 5 percent increase over previous-year figures.
Year-over-year expenditures for California’s Beverage Container Recycling Fund exceed revenues by approximately $100 million, according to data presented at a recent Container Recycling Institute webinar.
A recent national study points to a growing consumer expectation that manufacturers act as a central cog in pushing for the recycling of product packaging.
A committee in the New Jersey General Assembly voted to advance the “Smart Container Act,” which would place a 10-cent deposit on containers of less than 24 ounces and a 20-cent deposit on larger ones.
California officials no longer envision immediate cuts to programs funded by the state’s beverage container fund – because the fund’s financial future looks brighter.