The Los Angeles City Council today voted to ban single-use plastic grocery bags. The city becomes the largest in the country to adopt an ordinance to phase out plastic grocery bags.
WASHINGTON — Even with a seemingly historic bipartisan bill now in the Senate, there is still a lot of push and pull ahead before a final compromise is reached on chemical regulation in Congress.
A Michigan lawmaker has proposed an expansion of the state's bottle bill to include water, juice and other non-carbonated beverages.
NEW YORK — Restaurant owners said a proposed bill banning the sale of polystyrene foam foodservice products will cost them double the money and urge the mayor to recycle instead of prohibit the material.
WASHINGTON — A coalition of more than 85 trade associations has banded together in favor of the Chemical Safety Improvement Act (CSIA) the first-ever update for decades-old regulatory legislation. Meanwhile, environmental groups are circling the wagons to oppose it.
Five years after a failed push to tax single-use plastic shopping bags, the City Council is preparing new legislation to get New Yorkers to find another way to carry groceries, goods and take-out. Environmentalists are massing in support, but industry opposition is likely.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill that will outlaw aluminum cans and plastic bottles from landfills.
An ASTM International plastics committee has announced a big change to the Resin Identification Code: The iconic chasing-arrows symbol will be replaced by a solid, equilateral triangle.
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RALEIGH, N.C. -- Degradable plastics in North Carolina must now be labeled to prevent contamination of recyclable feedstocks, thanks to a measure approved June 5 by the state Legislature.
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