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Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont’s controversial waste recycling bill has won the approval of a key legislative committee. The Environment Committee voted mainly along party lines to advance the measure.
Officials say a product stewardship program for packaging products would divert 190,000 tons of trash each year. Lawmakers want other states to go first.
The Environment Committee approved two bills addressing Connecticut’s struggle to manage solid waste disposal and curb climate change.
After hundreds of advocates wrote letters to lawmakers protesting a proposal to allow bear hunting, leaders agreed to abandon the idea.
The story of Connecticut companies converting food waste to other products is central to Lamont’s advocacy for a waste-disposal and recycling bill.