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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Source: Recycle From Home adds another California city – Recycling Today
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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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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
Closing the mill, which manufactures CRB and URB, will affect an estimated 72 employees. The move is part of a multiyear cost reduction plan.
Source: Greif to close Los Angeles mill, end West Coast coated paperboard production | Packaging Dive
California suggests upping e-scrap processing payments
The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery has proposed increasing some payment rates for processors who participate in the state e-scrap program.
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