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California opens public comment period on draft EPR regulations

The public comment period will run until April 23, when CalRecycle will host a public hearing. The agency estimates more than 13,000 producers would be affected by the regulation.

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Low-energy chemical recycling method could offer solution for mixed and biobased plastics

Scientists at a federal lab recently released the results of a project, funded by Google X, that looked at handling a mixed stream of PET and PLA. Figuring out how to scale this concept beyond the lab is an ongoing discussion.

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Composters spend about a fifth of operating costs on contamination, including plastic

The Composting Consortium report, which analyzed feedstock and finished product from 10 facilities around the country, aims to address common assumptions about plastic and other contaminants in compost.

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Long Beach, California, advances Bioenergy Devco plans in shift from WTE to digestion

Following negotiations, an anaerobic digester is set to replace a mass burn facility in Long Beach. The transition occurs amid significant regulatory shifts for such facilities in California over the past decade.

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Republic Services to pay nearly $300,000 in settlement with California Teamsters

The union alleges that Republic hired nonunion workers to transport MSW to landfills. An arbitrator ruled in favor of granting the Teamsters back pay for the case.

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Colgate-Palmolive faces lawsuit over ‘misleading’ recyclable toothpaste tube claims

A judge denied the company’s request to throw out a lawsuit that consumers filed a year and a half after Colgate introduced a monomaterial HDPE tube. The product’s recyclability has been hotly debated.

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Long Beach, California, WTE facility closing; city negotiating digester plan with Bioenergy Devco

After years of financial difficulties, the Covanta-operated Southeast Resource Recovery Facility is shutting down this month. Long Beach is looking to build organics processing capacity in its place via a pending RFP.

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CalRecycle announces $130M in grants for SB 1383 organics projects

The funding goes toward a range of public and private awardees, including operations run by Agromin, Republic Services and a variety of local governments.

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CalRecycle releases initial findings for recyclability labeling, EPR law implementation

The agency published draft rules and a covered materials category list pertinent to SB 54, as well as the SB 343 preliminary findings report.

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Compostable packaging’s contested, complicated past doesn’t determine its future

Composters can struggle to manage the wide variety of new packaging entering the market, leading to greater calls for labeling guidelines and testing. Cities like San Francisco and Minneapolis offer case studies in how to make it work.