AUGUSTA Representative Vicki Doudera, D-Camden, introduced Monday environmental legislation aimed at increasing post consumer recycled plastic content in beverage containers, a measure that addresses the burgeoning amount of plastic in our environment and helps promote a more circular recycling economy for Maine.
LD 479, “An Act To Promote a Circular Economy through Increased Postconsumer Recycled Plastic Content in Plastic Beverage Containers,” creates a minimum post-consumer recycled content requirement (PCR) for all plastic beverage containers sold in Maine beginning with 25% PCR by 2026 and increasing to 30% by 2031.
By focusing on the same plastic beverage containers currently covered in Maine’s bottle bill, the legislation will benefit municipalities, waste haulers, sorting facilities, recycling processors and beverage manufacturers, many of whom are already moving toward post-consumer recycled content goals, according to a news release.
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Another round of mass public murders has put gun safety back on the national agenda. On Thursday, President Biden pledged determination without surcease â while announcing several relatively minor measures. Speaking in the Rose Garden, the president said he had ordered the Department of Justice to devise a way to crack down on un-serial-numbered âghostâ guns that can be bought without background checks and assembled from kits or 3-D printers, and to further regulate stabilizing braces that effectively turn pistols into short-barrel rifles.
He also promised DOJ would prepare a model statute for states that want to enact a so-called âred flagâ law, which authorizes judges to order the removal of firearms from people they deem a threat to themselves or others. Thatâs all good as far as it goes â but it doesnât go particularly far.
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