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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: OPA@calrecycle.ca.gov SACRAMENTO — California made industry responsible for cutting...
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
CalRecycle seeks input on plastic-pollution reduction rules
SACRAMENTO — CalRecycle wants industry partners, the public and all interested parties to give input as it writes the regulations for California’s Plastic Pollution Prevention and Producer Responsibility Act, SB 54 (Allen, Chapter 75, Statutes of 2022). The law requires that by 2032 most plastic packaging and plastic food ware is recycled, and that producers make 25% less of these single-use materials.
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