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Solid Wastes Industry Announces New Policy on Product Stewardship - Successful Product Stewardship Is Shared Responsibility among Manufacturers, Retailers, Government, Consumers and the Private and Public Sector Recycling and Solid Waste Industry
Closing the Loop: Road Map for Effective Material Value Recovery provides a detailed systems analysis of international packaging recovery systems, including successful collection, sorting, and reprocessing technologies and infrastructures, as well as the waste management policies that support or limit recycling.
REPORT: Recycling and EPR can create 1.5 million new jobs in the U.S.
A new report claims that recycling 75% of municipal solid waste (MSW) and construction and demolition debris (C&D) by 2030 will result in 1.5 million new jobs and result in greenhouse gas and pollution reduction benefits.
The report, More Jobs, Less Pollution: Growing the Recycling Economy in the U.S.,was conducted by Boston-based Tellus Institute with Seattle-based Sound Resources Management. It was prepared for a coalition of labor, environmental and social justice organizations, including the BlueGreen Alliance, SEIU, NRDC, Teamsters, Recycling Works!, and the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives.
Two of the four recommended policy options to achieve the 75% waste diversion rate are based on the principle of Extended Producer Responsibility...read more…
New product stewardship organization formed - By Editorial Staff, Resource Recycling
A coalition of companies, manufacturers and trade associations have formed a new organization to promote free-market solutions to product stewardship over government-mandated approaches.
The Product Management Alliance will advocate for market-based extended producer responsibility efforts and voluntary incentives to increase recovery and sustainable product and package design. The alliance will address its members' concerns regarding government policies mandating extended producer responsibility that shift costs of production to manufacturers.
The founding members of the alliance include representatives from the carpet, electronics, toys, paper, packaging and transportation materials, mattresses, plastics, personal goods and pharmaceutical industries.Chemical and Engineering News article on the Evolution of EPR - http://www.pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/89/8931cover.html?featured=1
Kinney Drug Medicine Collection Days - January 26, February 26, March 26, 2011
DRAFT Vermont E-Waste Standard Plan Public Comment Period 12/23/2010
http://www.anr.state.vt.us/dec/e-waste/
Vermont Public Radio Edition on Product Stewardship - http://www.vpr.net/episode/48079/
Producer Responsibility for Ontario and Quebec
Resource Recycling's Law of the Land
Products and Packaging Contribute 44 percent of United States Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Paint Product Stewardship by Donna Barlow Casey, CVSWMD Executive Director
Vermont Senate Passes Electronic Scrap Recycling Bill http://www.recyclingtoday.com/News/news.asp?Id=15046 (April 2009)
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