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Be Careful of Rosy Promises on Post-Consumer Glass

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021Wayne DeFeoRecycling

Recently, Resource Recycling reported on the failure of Pace Glass. A company that promised to build a $90 million glass facility to sort and clean up post-consumer glass. While a great idea, the venture failed. The result is stockpiles of more than 300,000 cubic yards of material that now needs to be cleaned up. This […]

New Jersey’s Senator Smith Takes a Large Stride Toward the Circular Economy

July 8, 2020July 8, 2020Wayne DeFeoRecycling

Last week, Senator Smith introduced legislation that would require manufacturers to include post consumer content in the products that they manufacture. Interestingly, the major producers of those products were not speaking in outright opposition. They hedged their bets with the hope of watering down the legislation and having a smaller percentage of post consumer material […]