The adoption of any new policies such as bottle bills, reuse systems, EPR or certain food packaging bans could reduce disposal by 10% to 20% by 2040. Such changes could influence new jobs and ...
Once packaging leaves the consumer, it enters fragmented collection and sorting systems where contamination, infrastructure gaps, and market forces determine its fate.
Houston-based Waste Management (WM) says it has worked with Cascade Cart Solutions, Grand Rapids, Michigan, to begin producing the company’s curbside carts using bulky rigid plastics collected in ...