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SACRAMENTO – A new plan could bring Californians an extra $100 million in bonus recycling credits and direct $155 million to expand mobile recycling and reverse vending machine locations for consumers to cash in their bottles and cans. The budget proposal would boost redemptions and expand recycling sites using $330 million of surplus unredeemed container deposits that grew with a record increase in beverage purchases during the pandemic.

SACRAMENTO – To protect communities from toxic tire fires, illegal dumping and other risks of improper waste tire handling, California levied $1.2 million in penalties against three tire businesses for repeatedly violating waste tire management laws. Under the administrative decision and settlement agreements, the businesses in Sacramento, Riverside and Yolo counties will pay $918,000, and owe an additional $325,000 if new violations occur during the settlement period.

Soon more Californians will be able to redeem their bottle and can deposits, thanks to a groundbreaking partnership between CVS Health Corp. and CalRecycle. CVS has agreed to install 20 reverse vending machines at CVS sites in unserved areas of the state.

SACRAMENTO–Every year, California discards enough plastic to fill 80,000 Olympic-sized pools. In response to a lagging statewide recycling rate and rising public concern about this surge of single-use trash polluting our neighborhoods and ocean, California is modernizing its recycling system to expand reuse and in-state remanufacturing.