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Oregon legislation revamps recycling in multiple ways

The Oregon House and Senate last week approved a bill establishing extended producer responsibility for packaging and adding other elements to the state’s recycling system, including new requirements for MRFs and an evaluation program for product labels. The legislation now …

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An evolving position

This story originally appeared in the Winter 2021 issue of Plastics Recycling Update. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   As recycling markets have been thrown into turmoil in recent years due to China’s import shifts, the North American …

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White House links e-scrap to ‘resilient supply chains’

The federal government should encourage design for recyclability in consumer electronics and support technologies that recover rare earth magnets from hard drives, according to a report from the Biden administration. The White House this month published “Building resilient supply chains, …

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Major corporations endorse EPR for packaging

Coca-Cola, Unilever and Walmart are among the companies that have backed a statement from a global group in support of extended producer responsibility, the latest example of the seismic shift in corporate sentiments around the policy approach. Over 100 corporations …

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New global e-scrap standard in the works

The International Electrotechnical Commission in recent months launched a process to create a worldwide e-scrap management standard. IEC, a Geneva-based nonprofit membership organization that focuses on industry standardization in electrical and electronic goods, last fall wrote about the project, which …

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