A new report draws on these states’ earliest lessons to offer a roadmap to guide future EPR program development and ...

Colorado, Oregon, Illinois, Nevada, New York, Vermont and Washington have new laws, including electronics and battery EPR and ...

In recent years efforts have increased to have manufacture play a bigger role in boosting recycling numbers and reduce landfill waste. Pressing Matters Stefanie Mills sits down with Kerrin O’Brien ...

I have recently heard of extended producer responsibility in the world of recycling. What exactly does this mean? For the state of Colorado, extended producer responsibility is happening thanks to ...

In 2018, the veil was lifted from our eyes. Due to China’s Operation National Sword (which banned the importation of plastic wastes), we learned that plastic and other potentially recyclable items did ...

This fall, as an advocate with Environment Washington, I helped organize a litter cleanup. In just over an hour, our team picked up more than 120 pounds of trash. While we found some big items, we ...

U.S. states could increase their recycling rates for printed paper and packaging by almost 50% if they adopted laws making manufacturers bear some responsibility for the afterlife of their products, ...

Portland, Ore. — Plastics and its recycling challenges will be getting a lot of attention as states start the long process of implementing their new extended producer responsibility packaging laws.

Ed Jones / AFP via Getty Images After recycling’s failure to appreciably reduce the amount of plastic the U.S. throws away, some states are taking a new approach, transferring the onus of recycling ...

Mismanaged packaging waste is increasingly harming the environment, health, and economies, particularly in developing countries. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is key to solving this problem ...