Legislation & Enforcement

Congress has passed a bill reauthorizing a marine debris program. The legislation also asks President Trump to work with other...

Plastics industry interests are lobbying Washington politicians to fund recycling infrastructure projects, a new area of focus for groups that...

This story has been corrected. California legislation requiring 20 percent recycled content in PET bottles failed. Meanwhile, state lawmakers passed...

This article originally appeared in the August 2018 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. It’s been...

Policymakers and companies have taken recent action on single-use plastic bags. One major corporation's decision to phase out bags has...

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The U.S. EPA's budget is cut, but not nearly as deeply as President Trump proposed, under a spending plan passed...

Aligning recycling metrics with concepts such as sustainable materials management has been a challenge. But a researcher in Florida is...

Aligning recycling metrics with concepts such as sustainable materials management has been a challenge. But a researcher in Florida is...

A new law in Iowa gives regulators statutory criteria they can use to determine whether companies are storing material for...