As reported in Waste Dive and Enviropolitics, a number of states are still moving forward with Extended Producer Responsibility legislation. This is rather amazing news when we consider that people are still nervous about touching surfaces….(On a side note, the most recent reports on that issue are encouraging. It does not appear that Fomite transfer […]
There is a great deal of effort on banning disposal plastic bags. I applaud and support those efforts. But each of us must also take responsibility for what we take out…that is, take out containers from restaurants are a large problem as well. WE control that to a degree. The attached articles outline both the […]
S-232, a senate bill designed to address the issue of Environmental Justice is moving quickly through the NJ legislature. That is both a good and bad thing. The good part of S-232 is that the issue is being discussed after more than 10 years of languishing in reports by the DEP. The bad is the […]
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 […]
As always, my old friend Chaz Miller seems to cut to the chase with his articles. His latest speaks to the issue of how we identify recycling…specifically, as we have talked about in this blog before, what are recyclables? The answer, as Chaz notes; they are raw material…nothing more, nothing less. It is time that […]