Multiple states updated their waste, recycling and organics laws in the new year to improve recycling and organics systems and divert waste from disposal. New laws regarding right-to-repair ...

The Brownfields Reauthorization Act of 2025 would reauthorize the U.S. EPA's Brownfields Program, and the Strategies to Eliminate Waste and Accelerate Recycling Development (STEWARD) Act would improve ...

Researchers assessed states’ potential to reduce food waste through four policy areas: prevention (date labeling), rescue (liability protection and tax incentives), repurposing (animal feed), and ...

In an important development for the sustainability movement, Oregon and Colorado are implementing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws ...

The Coalition for High Performance Recycling applauds the state’s bipartisan effort to modernize recycling by creating a ...

A bottle bill is a law that requires a deposit on beverage bottles and cans. Here are the four states in New England that ...

California is the first state to hold textile and fashion ... to California's Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery. Does the law require consumers to recycle their clothes?

Washington’s recycling system may soon get a makeover. A proposal to require companies to reduce unnecessary packaging and ...

Can they avoid the landfill? Washington state tried to get ahead of this issue nearly eight years ago when it tucked a recycling requirement into a law for solar tax incentives. It hoped to spur ...

The United States generates more food waste than all ... (animal feed), and recycling (organic waste bans and waste recycling laws). They found that recycling policies offered the largest ...