AOR Blog

04-22-2021

What is your name? Haley Robinson

Where do you work and what do you do? I work at Wells Fargo Bank as a Commercial Credit Analyst

Tell us how you embrace recycling/sustainability into your home or workplace? I try to live a sustainable lifestyle by reducing my consumption of landfill bound materials and minimizing...

04-20-2021

If food scraps from households are composted, should that count in the nation’s recycling rate? What if they’re fed to livestock or processed in anaerobic digesters?

Those are just a couple of the many questions the EPA is grappling with as it seeks to define exactly what “recycling rate” will mean. Last fall, the agency...

04-08-2021

Rural Action, started in the early 1990s by the Appalachian Public Interest Campaign as a member-based agency to focus on regional revitalization, may be the first self-conscious Zero Waste organization that initiated reuse and recycling infrastructure planning for rural development. The organization is centered on the eight...

04-07-2021

To help retailers clarify the recyclability of their packaging, Trex Co., Winchester, Virginia, has introduced a free package labeling initiative as part of its NexTrex Retail Recycling Program.

Trex says the NexTrex label is available for free to brands that have had their packaging tested and verified as acceptable for...

04-06-2021

March 19th was the deadline for bills to be submitted during Oregon’s 2021 Legislative Session.  Bills that are still “alive” will need to pass out of their committee of origin by the next deadline, which is April 13th. This email includes a status update....

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