Recycling

A CA law holds clothing manufacturers accountable for adding to landfills, but it doesn’t deploy clothing bins, which can spur textile recycling.

Plastics are the most sustainable option. Food suppliers are decades away from other material that performs as well at food safety and waste.

California trucks much of its organic waste to landfills instead of recyclers, largely because of an exclusive franchise hauling system.

As oil and gas companies pivot to plastic, certain California neighborhoods become unhealthy sacrifice zones again.

Californians generate 1.5 tons of e-waste every minute. So-called "right to repair" policies can extend the lifespan of consumer products, ultimately helping lower emissions. In an election year, candidates should be giving the issue more attention.

The Little Hoover Commission recommended pausing California's landmark law aimed at reducing organic waste in landfills. Senate Bill 1383 could use an update, but given the importance of reducing methane emissions, pressing pause would be a mistake.

Californians pay more than $1 billion in recycling deposits annually but few people bother to redeem the empties. The state's sparse redemption system is largely to blame. A new law could help grow and modernize bottle recycling and give consumers significant returns.

Reuse, reduce… recalibrate?  According to one watchdog agency, California is “falling short” in its ambitious organic waste recycling efforts and may need to hit the pause button until state agencies and local governments can sort themselves out. But that rankled the state officials in charge, who considered the very suggestion, well, garbage — prompting a […]

Any effort to regulate scrap metal facilities as hazardous waste treatment facilities threatens an important sector of California's circular economy and hinder key environmental goals.

Innovative advanced recycling processes that enable the reuse of products such as artificial turf are taking off around the country, except in California where a new plastics law prevents greater adoption.