A convoluted credit system allows companies to label virgin plastic as recycled. Here’s how it works.
Source: The misleading accounting behind your ‘recycled’ plastic | Grist
Month: May 2025
Packaging and recycling sectors connect in Seattle
A common complaint among MRF operators is that they have little meaningful contact with the packaging industry, despite dealing with headaches from that industry’s products every single day.
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CalRecycle to fund mixed plastics facility, other projects
California’s state recycling agency will provide $10 million toward a facility sorting plastics with resin codes 2-7, additional multimillion dollar grants for several major MRF retrofits, and a handful of smaller awards for localities to install recycling collection containers.
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Recycling Today
Source: Recycle From Home adds another California city – Recycling Today
Recycling Today
Source: Greif to close Los Angeles paperboard mill – Recycling Today
Recent laws that target packaging materials make the new paper-fiber product an eco-friendly solution for shipping refrigerated products.
Source: ‘RecyCoolers’ could help reduce use of environmentally harmful Styrofoam packaging
CAA proposes tweaks to handle SB 54 delays
The Circular Action Alliance is asking for several changes to extended producer responsibility deadlines in response to the delayed rulemaking on SB 54.
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Frontline food industry workers, who witness waste daily, offer valuable insights that can drive meaningful food waste reduction when actively engaged. The Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment’s pilot program, supported by WWF, showed that empowering these employees fosters cultural change, improves efficiency, and delivers both environmental and financial benefits.
Partnership provides point-of-sale repair info
Two big names in the electronics repair and refurbishment space are partnering up to influence consumer and manufacturer behavior and create a world where circularity is the default.
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Three connected lawsuits between resin supplier ExxonMobil, a handful of nonprofit organizations and California’s attorney general are working their way through the courts. Recently, a Texas city that’s home to an ExxonMobil pyrolysis plant has joined the fray to support the company.Continue Reading→
Source: Resin producer, environmental group lawsuits heat up