Environmental advocates are pressing New York lawmakers to confront the villain they say is behind the state’s low recycling rates and the garbage piling up in landfills and incinerators. Plastics. In ...
A coalition of New York businesses are warning that a plan to tighten rules for paper and package recycling will threaten ...
In New York, plastic accounts for about 14% of the 18 million tons of waste that ends up in landfills and incinerators, according to state figures. A measure in Albany would force companies that do at ...
The Syracuse, New York-based Center for Sustainable Materials Management (CSMM) has unveiled Phase 2 findings of its needs assessment and gap analysis for New York’s recycling system. In 2023, the ...
A New York state extended producer responsibility bill for packaging and plastics narrowly failed in the closing hours of the state Assembly's session on June 7. Plastics groups opposed the bill ...
Empire State Development (ESD), New York's chief economic development agency, has announced a $2.36 million investment in six technology research projects to increase the reuse, retreading and ...
Tim Tenney is president of Clinton’s Ditch Co-Op, “The Pepsi Place,” in Cicero. Christopher Baker is general manager of Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast, in Syracuse. New York’s beverage companies are ...