Recycling Today
Source: The impacts of the nation’s first textiles EPR law – Recycling Today
Author: Bob Hollis
Parties expressed disappointment and determination as they anticipate another international meeting in 2025. Negotiators considered potential tenets like capping plastic production and phasing out certain chemicals and products.
Source: Global plastic pollution treaty talks fail in final meeting of 2024 | Packaging Dive
Finding end markets for recyclable materials requires both building connections with existing businesses and community organizations and helping new ideas take root, several recycling officials said during a 2024 Resource Recycling Conference panel. Continue Reading→
Source: Panel: End markets can be found or built from scratch
California battery-bearing device rulemaking continues
California regulators will accept public comments in December on regulations laying the groundwork for adding new battery-containing devices into the state e-scrap program. But those devices will not become covered materials for more than a year.
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Recent peer-reviewed research revealed that California’s Proposition 65 (Prop 65), which regulates toxic chemicals such as PFAS and phthalates commonly found in plastic lunch boxes, food packaging, backpacks and storage cases, has effectively reduced the levels of harmful substances in residents’ bodies.California’s Prop 65, enacted in 1986, requires companies selling products within the state to disclose the presence of chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects or reproductive harm. The regulation currently encompasses approximately 850 chemicals, including six phthalates identified as potentially risky to health.
Source: “Real-world impact”: Study validates success of plastic chemical regulations in California
The agency released the finalized National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution on Thursday, as the international community seeks to finish negotiating a legally binding agreement on plastic pollution.
A state regulator voted to amend the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, injecting new life into a lucrative biofuels credit market that is used by waste projects throughout the U.S.
Source: California opts to preserve credits for anaerobic digesters in major regulatory update | Waste Dive
Growing insights into real-world compostable product disintegration are now accessible with the Compostable Field Testing Program’s open-source field testing data. Part I
Source: Compostable Product Field Testing Public Dataset | BioCycle
While applauding progress in areas like postconsumer recycled content in packaging, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s 2024 global commitment progress report notes that reusable packaging “remains niche.”
The American Forest & Paper Association overhauled how it calculates and reports recycling data. The cardboard recycling rate is now closer to results from alternative methodologies, including Bloomberg Intelligence’s.
Source: Cardboard recycling rate plunges following AF&PA’s calculation revamp | Packaging Dive