Government Recycling Regulations Retail 
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Increasing the reuse and recycling of batteries at their end of life is essential to increasing the sustainability of batteries and creating a circular economy. Recycling must ramp up. There are huge opportunities for recycling to decrease the need for newly mined materials in batteries. Source: Courtesy of Li-Cycle.
Enviromental Defense
MAY 6, 2024
Ontario’s current recycling system only collects 43 per cent of beverage containers, but a deposit system could capture 90 per cent, keeping billions of containers out of the environment. Support is up five per cent from last year when 76 per cent of Ontarians supported deposit return. There is no time to waste.”
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Enviromental Defense
APRIL 1, 2022
Unfortunately, the Ontario government has completely lost the plot on pollution. . Ontario’s Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act is designed to shift responsibility for waste management off of municipalities and taxpayers and on to goods producers, retailers, etc. And EPR regulations are weak for other types of waste as well.
Clean Energy Law
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Regulators and water managers had a busy 2023 as they grappled with persistently low groundwater levels, planned for additional water storage and conveyance, and continued to advance water conservation initiatives. Potential adoption of the regulation is slated for consideration in 2024.
Circle of Blue
JANUARY 6, 2023
Persistent dry conditions are driving up the cost of water and prompting more resistance from government and citizens to new development. Those trends, in turn, also are prompting innovations in community design and installation of expensive infrastructure to use less fresh water and recycle more wastewater.
E2 Law Blog
JANUARY 13, 2022
Kathy Hochul’s State of the State address, in which she endorsed a suite of progressive environmental policies including product stewardship laws governing the paper and packaging industry, the New York Legislature has introduced a bill targeting environmental sustainability disclosures in the fashion and apparel industry.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2022
SB 1145 requires CARB to create and maintain an online dashboard providing the public with information about the state’s progress on meeting its climate change goals, increasing government accountability.
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