Maine Legislature Backs Landmark Bill to Shift Recycling Costs from Communities to Producers
The Democratic-led Maine Legislature has endorsed a first-in-the-nation bill that would shift some recycling and waste disposal costs from local taxpayers to producers of hard-to-recycle packaging materials.
The bill, from Rep. Nicole Grohoski, D-Ellsworth, is backed by environmental interests and the cities and towns that would draw from a new fund to bolster recycling programs, but business groups argue that it will increase the costs of essential goods, including groceries.
Webinar: Recycled Paper Commodities Markets Update
Join the NRC and the Pennsylvanie Recycling Markets Center for their webinar on paper markets.
A paper recycling markets industry expert will provide an update on recycled paper in the U.S., and will include updates on collection, markets, and recent challenges, including China’s import restrictions. The session will also include a discussion on the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Presenter - Megan Workman, Price Reporter/Editor, Fastmarkets RISI
GP begins operations at new Oregon recycling facility
Georgia-Pacific (GP), Atlanta, has begun operations at its GP Toledo material recovery facility (MRF) in Toledo, Oregon. The MRF has applied GP’s Juno technology, which is designed to recycle highly contaminated recovered fiber and mixed materials.
Christer Henriksson, president of Juno Technology at Georgia-Pacific, says GP has been piloting Juno since 2013 at a plant in Savannah, Georgia, and began construction on its Toledo MRF about two years ago.
AOR Webinar: Cleanup Connections
AOR is hosting a webinar and summer event that kicks off on June 15th with a panel discussion "Cleanup Connections". We'll be featuring presenters from Solve, Surfrider, Adopt a Block and the City of Portland to discuss how to best use litter cleanup activities to motivate and create change and ways to continue litter cleanups even without a supporting organization.
Webinar: Clean Materials – An Emerging Economic Engine
This discussion will examine the potential benefits that a growing clean materials industry can have in the innovative Northwest economy. We'll talk to industry leaders and innovators on the cutting-edge of the sector about how clean materials can become an emerging economic engine. Plus, there will be plenty of networking time so you can make the connections that make a difference! Click here for the agenda and more info about the series.
Webinar: “Achieving Zero Waste with Innovative Reuse and Recycling Contracts”
Join us for a webinar where we’ll share innovative zero waste contracting approaches to reducing and managing materials to advance source reduction, reuse, and recycling. The U.S. Forest Service will share their strategies for achieving net zero waste at all large fire incidents by 2030, and Urban Ore, Inc., will discuss their transfer station salvage, reuse and recycling contract with the City of Berkeley.
EPA leader connects recycling and environmental justice
The U.S. EPA’s top environmental justice official has a message for recycling operators: Don’t wait for a conflict to arise to start engaging with the community that surrounds you.
Matthew Tejada, who since 2013 has been director of the U.S. EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice, addressed the recycling sector on April 29 during the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries’ ISRI2021 online conference.
Keep America Beautiful Releases Largest Study on Litter in America
Keep America Beautiful® has released data from its 2020 study on litter in America. The Keep America Beautiful 2020 National Litter Study provides a comprehensive understanding of the quantity, composition, and sources of litter along roadways, waterways, and in non-roadway areas across the United States. The organization’s 2020 study is a follow up to its landmark 2009 study, which builds on a history of science-based litter research started by Keep America Beautiful in 1969.
Welcome New AOR Member Haley Robinson
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
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