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.
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.
A Canadian city brings in nearly $10 million through sales of recyclables, and a community attempts to educate residents to cut down on its costly contamination problem.
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Legislative movement on a pair of bills in the Hawkeye State has drawn recycling industry interest in recent days.
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.
No joke: On April 1, a U.S. state and a Canadian province will implement some big changes to their beverage container deposit programs.
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.
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.
Maine’s lawmakers and governor are fighting a big battle over small containers. The legislature wants to place a deposit on liquor bottles called “nips,” but Gov. Paul LePage is vowing to fight it.
Regulators in British Columbia ramp up pressure on newspaper publishers to contribute to recycling funding, and New York City Council members will likely vote in early May on a plastic bag fee law.