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Safe and convenient battery recycling coming to California with new industry-led takeback
SACRAMENTO – To prevent fires, injuries, and toxic pollution, California has tasked the battery industry with collecting and recycling loose household batteries.
New SB 54 Informational Session: Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act
Overview of producer responsibility organization and application process Office of Public AffairsFor Immediate Release: Oct. 11, 2023News Release # 2023-08Media Contact: Melanie Turner916-341-6763 | melanie.turner@calrecycle.ca.gov SACRAMENTO —...
California seeks organization to lead industry-run program to cut plastic and packaging waste
SACRAMENTO — Advancing historic reforms to cut plastic and packaging waste, California seeks an organization to help overhaul the state’s recycling system for single-use packaging and plastic food ware. CalRecycle is accepting applications until Jan. 1, 2024.
Family Charged in $7.6 Million Bottle-and-Can Recycling Scheme
OAKLAND – Eight family members who run recycling centers in Riverside County face felony charges in connection to a $7.6 million, multi-state recycling fraud investigation. Agents believe the suspects illegally smuggled 178 tons of empty beverage containers from Arizona into Riverside County to defraud California’s Beverage Container Recycling Program
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