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Repair, regulations and research in Europe

Right-to-repair legislation now covers TVs across the European Union, and the U.K. is looking into a significant expansion in residential e-scrap collection. Those are two of a handful of recent news items from European countries. Rating system check-in: A French …

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Market development grants awarded in Washington state

A new recycling development center in the Pacific Northwest has issued over half a million dollars in grants to help boost domestic markets for recyclables. Created by legislation passed in 2019, the Washington state Recycling Development Center this month awarded …

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Expansive EPR proposal is back in play in California

California legislators introduced a bill that creates a packaging stewardship organization and adds packaging fees paid by producers. The bill is the latest in a flurry of plastics-related legislative activity in the state. Assembly Bill 842 was introduced in February …

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Federal plastics proposal returns this week

Two members of Congress will revive the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act, which includes a national container deposit system and other sweeping changes. Representatives from the plastics industry have countered the push. According to a March 22 press release …

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Is EPR the End of Single-Stream Recycling?

I was grabbing coffee at an international zero waste conference a few years ago when three guys from Italy cornered me, eager to talk with an American about our recycling system. They had one big unanswered question: “What is going …

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