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The fee was established by the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act of 1986 (AB 2020, Margolin) and further extended to additional beverage types in California State Senate Bill No. 1013, signed into law on September 28, 2022, and taking effect on January 1, 2024; [2] since 2010 the program has been administered by ...
California will use $285 million from new funding for recycling expansion projects, including beverage container recycling business start-up costs and hassle-free redemption methods —such as ...
The United States' overall beverage container recycling rate is approximately 33%, while states with container deposit laws have a 70% average rate of beverage container recycling. Michigan's recycling rate of 97% from 1990 to 2008 was the highest in the nation, as is its $0.10 deposit. [ 2 ]
The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (also known as CalRecycle) is a branch of the California Environmental Protection Agency that oversees the state's waste management, recycling, and waste reduction programs. CalRecycle was established in 2010 to replace the California Integrated Waste Management Board.
The plastic caps on some paper beverage cartons are getting shorter and harder to open. To save on plastic, weight and shipping costs, the caps have shrunk from 21 millimeters to 17 millimeters ...
Two years after California launched an effort to keep organic waste out of landfills, the state is so far behind on getting food recycling programs up and running that it's widely accepted next ...
In the 2000s, Californians Against Waste sponsored legislation that created retailer take-back programs for personal computers, mobile phones, [4] rechargeable batteries [5] and other household electronics. [6] Today, hundreds of electronics retailers throughout the state participate in the program and accept these items for recycling, free of ...
The program needs to be overhauled, Thomas Elias writes, because there's no way to even say how much criminals are scamming. California loses $200 million a year to recycling fraud, 5 or 10 cents ...