Jan 14, 2021
Arlington, VA – The National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) has released its 2021 Federal Legislative & Regulatory Agenda covering the First Session of the 117
th Congress. The agenda, created as a resource for congressional offices and regulatory agencies to utilize, updates the waste and recycling industry’s policy positions on important federal issues.
“NWRA’s 2021 agenda addresses a record-high 40 policy positions on important federal issues impacting the waste and recycling industry. This is up from 31 in 2020 due to anticipated legislative and regulatory actions from the new administration and Congress that present both opportunities and challenges,” stated NWRA President and CEO Darrell Smith. “Our award-winning government affairs team will continue their work to ensure our members can go about their business and provide safe, economically sustainable and environmentally responsible services and jobs that benefit communities throughout Americ
“Producer Responsibility is a business, and the brand owners will be a key stakeholder in that,” says AMERIPEN executive director Dan Felton in this 30-minute podcast about packaging policy predictions for 2021.
Felton has identified two policies he feels are most likely in the coming year:
1. Industry financing proposals, including Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) at a state level;
2. Recycled content mandates.
• Who is likely to pay?
• How will the funds be used and to what benefit?
• With so many brands advancing sustainable packaging voluntarily, why is producer responsibility legislation even needed?
• How can brands selling nationally and globally manage possible mandates at the state level?
Amcor with 35 Consumer Goods Companies Further Sustainability Efforts
Partnership implements initiatives to reduce plastic waste and use of materials that make it harder to recycle packaging; this moves Amcor’s 2025 goal for fully recyclable packaging forward.
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Jan 11th, 2021
The design principles also align with Amcor’s objectives to develop more sustainable packaging and to collaborate to increase recycling rates worldwide.
Amcor–a developer and producer of responsible packaging for pharmaceutical, medical, home and personal-care, and other products–in partnership with thirty-five leading companies in the consumer goods industry, announces measures to significantly reduce plastic waste. Amcor and its partners in this coalition–which have a collective turnover of 1 trillion euros–will be enforcing two new design rules to deliver packaging that is easier and more cost-effective to recycle.
Transforming waste to wealth: DM sets up plastic-shredding unit in insurgency-hit Changlang district
To turn its economy around, DM set up a plastic-shredding unit in insurgency-hit Changlang. They are used for road construction, writes Prasanta Mazumdar
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Recycling and reuse of plastic has incentivized waste segregation in district urban development agencies of Lohit, Namsai, Tirap, Changlang districts.
Express News Service
ARUNACHAL PRADESH: A militancy hotbed, Arunachal Pradesh’s Changlang district is often in the news for frequent insurgency incidents – ultras carrying out subversive activities such as extortion, abduction, and killings before fleeing to their hideouts in Myanmar.