With proposed right-to-repair laws and increased government regulation, manufacturers may be forced to make the spare parts needed to fix their products for electronic devices, furniture and medical devices. Right-to-repair activists say some consum … Read More…
A committee at Sustainable Electronics Recycling International gave the green light to move forward with adding solar panels to the R2 certification standard. The R2 Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) on Wednesday, May 19 voted to begin the process of adding …
California officials say they will have enough money to continue running the state’s e-scrap recycling program without hiking fees. Staff at the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) are proposing to maintain at current levels the fees consumers …
In some ways, solar panels present some of the same recycling challenges as old TVs. They carry a high cost to recycle properly, have limited commodity value and contain hazardous metals. At the same time, relatively few downstream processors recycle …
Today for the first time, more than 100 businesses in the packaging value chain, together with more than 50 other organisations, publicly recognise that without Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) packaging collection and recycling is unlikely to … Read More…
In this episode of NothingWasted!, we chat with Joshua Baca, VP of plastics at the American Chemistry Council (ACC). ACC is the U.S.’ largest trade association representing the leading companies engaged in the business of chemistry; it aims to d Read …
The Biden-Harris administration requested $11.2 billion for the U.S. EPA for 2022, and the agency proposes to slightly increase funding to the EPA’s Waste Minimization and Recycling Program. The EPA on May 28 announced President Joe Biden’s budget request, which …
The price of post-consumer PET bales rose 37% over the past month. Meanwhile, the price of natural HDPE scrap crossed the $1 threshold for the first time. The national average price of post-consumer PET beverage bottles and jars sits at …
Advocates for federal policy around food waste reduction and prevention have been working for years to move the needle in this space; meanwhile we get close to 2030, the year that EPA has called for a 50% cut in food …
Advocates for federal policy around food waste reduction and prevention have been working for years to move the needle in this space; meanwhile we get close to 2030, the year that EPA has called for a 50% cut in food …