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The recycling business in America is in a heap of trouble. The environmental and economic ripple effects on towns and cities are ominous. China used to take our recyclables but essentially shut its doors in because anq journal paper and plastics we shipped were too contaminated with garbage. Unsurprisingly, the United States leads the world in per capita municipal solid waste production, and the volume of single-use plastics, rising for decades, has soared since the start of the pandemic.
Dozens of recycling programs have shuttered across the country and Americans are piling more trash than ever into incinerators and landfillsthe equivalent of throwing up our collective hands, a trend that disproportionately impacts marginalized neighborhoods and communities of color. A couple of New York State legislators, Democrats from Long Island, Senator Todd Kaminsky and Assemblyman Steve Englebright, have drafted a recycling bill that, if enacted, would set a conspicuous precedent for other states.
It also provides incentives for consumer brand owners to use more recyclable materials and reduce their packaging overall. For anybody concerned about keeping our communities from opening more sites to burn or bury rubbish and hemorrhaging cash to contend with, say, anq journal, nonrecyclable plastic food containers, milk anq journal and yogurt cups — cash that could go toward building new libraries or hospitals or parks — the legislation anq journal a potential game changer.
The opposite: it would return millions of tax dollars now paying for recycling to municipal coffers. Instead, the law would get product manufacturers, all but the smallest, to pick up the recycling tab.
The prospective legislation, in the works for more than a yearhas not only what officials and others I spoke with say are reasonable odds of passing in Albany — it has a good chance of earning support from some of those same companies and their lobbyists, anq journal. For others in the packaging industry, including some who have opposed such legislation before but now see states like California, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maine and Oregon considering similar billsgetting behind the idea — and therefore a seat at the table to help work out the details — is better than being left out of the process and holding the bag.
The lobby group Ameripenfor instance, has lately suggested it is open to the idea. The New York bill would implement a concept called extended producer responsibilityan incredibly infelicitous recycling term. In essence, anq journal, E. compels manufacturers, not consumers, to pay for the end-waste their products produce.
Depending on the environmental impacts of their packaging materials, anq journal, E. requires manufacturers to pony up different amounts that municipalities can then use to offset recycling expenses.
Right now, companies pretty much do what they wish when it comes to packaging, slapping, say, a metalized plastic label on anq journal recyclable cosmetics bottle and making it nonrecyclable, anq journal, or swapping plastic foam for pulped-paper egg cartons — with taxpayers having to absorb higher disposal costs. And extended producer responsibility laws have been in operation for years in parts of Europe and Canada, where one study shows that the average consumer price increase due to an E.
The state has passed E, anq journal. laws targeting electronicsleftover paint, thermometers and batteries; and a New York City law covers refrigerators anq journal air-conditioners. A senior lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council, he led a campaign to remove lead from gasoline years ago. Surveys show Americans are eager to recycle but frustrated. A benefit of E. More than that, money raised from one of anq journal programs can underwrite capital investments anq journal upgrading trash-handling technology, so that recycling facilities can recover more materials from the waste stream — materials that then flow back into the local economy.
But to do this requires anq journal that no one is currently willing to make. The question now is whether Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will get on board.
He has laid out a climate agenda around renewable energy. Last week he trumpeted a program at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University focused on improving the quality and marketability of recovered glass. in his latest budget. The bill is expected to move forward this spring. New York can set an example for the nation.
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