by Jeanine Vecchio | Mar 6, 2023 | Recycling
Plastic pollution is a key environmental challenge today, calling for a new global agreement and sustainable solutions. Standards for plastics enjoy a privileged status in making this happen. On 2 March, at the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, senior...
by Jeanine Vecchio | Feb 7, 2023 | Recycling
2023 could be the year when the reality of extended producer responsibility for plastics packaging in the U.S. begins to take shape, with the first-mover states of California, Colorado, Maine and Oregon all starting to write EPR rules. Regulators will be considering...
by Jeanine Vecchio | Jan 9, 2023 | Recycling
California, Colorado, Iowa, Maryland, New York and Washington, D.C. are among the jurisdictions enforcing new recycling and waste laws, including bag fees, bottle bill updates and organics mandates. Some people start the new year with resolutions, but several states...
by Jeanine Vecchio | Oct 27, 2022 | Recycling
Washington — Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report out Monday that blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as “fiction.” Titled “Circular Claims Fall Flat...
by Jeanine Vecchio | Oct 3, 2022 | Post Consumer Resin, Recycling
Several companies have released new products that are pushing plastics recycling forward, including PCR-specific additives and 83% recycled content films. Here’s a roundup of innovation news. Additives for PCR Avient Corporation recently introduced a PCR Color...
by Jeanine Vecchio | Aug 31, 2022 | Post Consumer Resin, Recycling
Lee Metters, Group Business Development Director, Domino Printing Sciences (Domino), explores the topic further in the below article. In recent years, governments worldwide have emphasised the need to shift towards a circular economy for packaging, with a particular...
