"California’s landfills emit more than 7.2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent of methane annually, the same climate impact as driving 1.7 million cars for one year." https://lnkd.in/gyQmZj4D #ActOnLandfills
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The mission of Californians Against Waste is to conserve resources, prevent pollution and protect California’s environment through the development, promotion, and implementation of waste reduction and recycling policies and programs. Founded in 1977, Californians Against Waste is a non-profit environmental research and advocacy organization that identifies, develops, promotes and monitors policy solutions to pollution and conservation problems posing a threat to public health and the environment. Californians Against Waste's history has demonstrated it to be the nation's oldest, largest and most effective non-profit environmental organization advocating for the implementation of waste reduction and recycling policies and programs. Californians Against Waste believes that when manufacturers are required to internalize the environmental externalities (costs) of material extraction, processing and manufacturing pollution, and end-of-life waste management in a product price, the market-place motivates them to reduce consumption, replace virgin resources with recycled materials, reduce toxicity and waste, design for maximum life and recyclability, and generally improve sustainability. This concept of Producer Responsibility lies at the root of virtually every legislative policy that CAW has pursued for the last 42 years.
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- Sacramento，California
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California Air Resources Board is currently considering updates?to its 15-year-old landfill emissions standards, which regulate how landfills monitor, control and capture emissions. Join CAW and Industrious Labs in urging California Air Resources Board & Office of California Governor Gavin Newsom to require stronger regulations on #LandfillMethane https://actonlandfills.org #ActOnClimate #ActOnLandfills
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California Air Resources Board has a ? golden opportunity ? to reduce methane, a powerful greenhouse gas with the recommendations outlined in Industrious Labs latest report. Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/gcaiNb_h
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"The expanded polystyrene ban is part of a single-use plastic law, Senate Bill 54, that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law in 2022?but bailed on earlier this month. And while the full law now sits in limbo, one part remains in effect: A de facto ban on so-called expanded polystyrene, the soft, white, foamy material commonly used for takeout food service items." https://lnkd.in/gN45AU4x
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"Styrofoam coffee cups, plates, clamshell takeout containers and other food service items made with expanded polystyrene plastic can still be found in restaurants and on store shelves, despite a ban that went into effect on Jan. 1." https://lnkd.in/gN45AU4x
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“A ban on sales of styrofoam products used in food service was supposed to have taken effect Jan. 1, but California hasn’t taken steps to enforce it.”?#CAMustLead?#BreakFreeFromPlastic?#CALeg https://lnkd.in/gN45AU4x
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This is exactly why California needs to ban disposable vapes with #AB762 by Assemblymembers Irwin and Wilson. Thank you Albert Motel, CRP for explaining why disposable vapes are a triple threat -- threatening our environment, our public health and worker safety.
Resource Recovery & Sustainable Materials Management/Manager of Waste and Recycling at Villanova University/TRUE Advisor for Zero Waste
Disposable vapes are a demonstration of humanity’s insanity. At the local gas station today I noticed someone had abandoned a disposable vape near the fuel pumps, a mere arms length from the waste bin. I’m not surprised, considering there’s not an easy way to recycle these disposable vapes anywhere. I am surprised that it wasn’t just placed in the trash instead though. That’s the fate of so many of these dangerous pieces of planned obsolescence. From there, they often result in fires within collections vehicles, waste transfer stations, recycling centers, and so on. Why are we so foolish? These disposable vapes are designed to be discarded after one life. Just one short little life, and then bye bye. Then it’s off to the magical and mythical place called “Away”, where all the things we no longer need go to retire. Just joking. There’s no such place. These devices are also designed to not disassemble easily, which means they can’t be recycled in a battery recycling program unless they’re disassembled to remove the battery. Yet they’re designed to NOT be disassembled easily!!! ??♂? They also can’t be recycled in most E Waste recycling programs, even though they’re considered electronic devices. This is because the cartridge containing whatever liquid being smoked can’t be removed easily either, and there are safety issues surrounding chemical exposure or legal issues related to possible controlled substances. Recyclers who would collect these things at end of life don’t want to deal with the challenges and risk for little to no reward, so there’s not really many who will take them. That means there’s no way at all to properly dispose of them unless you disassemble them and recycle the battery in a universal waste or household hazardous waste program. Who’s going to do that? The same person who opted for a disposable vape instead of a reusable one? I doubt it. With all that being said, why do we allow these devices to continue being produced and distributed? We must be insane. So, what did I do next? I took the darn thing home, disassembled it, and now I’ll recycle what can be recycled to try preventing yet another lithium ion battery ?? from happening. I just couldn’t ignore this. What can you do? Advocate for bans on disposable vapes, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policy, or at least a ban on marketing these devices as “Disposable”, which to the untrained eye could easily be considered as instructions to throw them in the trash. Please don’t throw lithium ion batteries in the trash or recycling bins. And please avoid using “Disposable” vapes.
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I am so proud of SB 279’s passage out of the Senate EQ Committee! I am beyond grateful for the diverse and powerful show of support in committee today. The line of people supporting this bill was quite literally out the door, demonstrating the need for these changes. Warm congratulations to Senator McNerney on presenting his first bill in Sacramento and the 7-0 vote count!
Great news! #SB279 (McNerney) passed the Senate Environmental Quality Committee 7-0. This bill will increase California’s compost capacity by expanding the ability for on-site composting for farmers and growers. ?? Erica Parker provided excellent testimony on the importance of supporting the expansion of composting to meet California’s ambitious climate goals and support on-site composting efforts.
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California is one step closer to tackling one of the top sources of beach litter! #SB45 (Padilla & Blakespear) just passed the Senate Environmental Quality committee. ?? Thank you to CAW’s Executive Director Mark Murray for highlighting the need to #ConnectTheCap to prevent litter and loss of caps throughout the recycling process. ?? CAW was proud to be joined by Miriam Gordon, Reuse Director The Story of Stuff Project who advocated for the original 2017 bill to require tethered caps on beverage bottles #CALeg
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Great news! #SB279 (McNerney) passed the Senate Environmental Quality Committee 7-0. This bill will increase California’s compost capacity by expanding the ability for on-site composting for farmers and growers. ?? Erica Parker provided excellent testimony on the importance of supporting the expansion of composting to meet California’s ambitious climate goals and support on-site composting efforts.
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