CalRecycle proposed a new set of draft regulations to implement SB 54, the 2022 law designed to reduce the amount of California’s single-use plastic waste. The rules include broad exemptions for a ...

In its proposed new rules to implement Senate Bill 54, CalRecycle says it will consider recycling technologies that follow standards issued by the Geneva-based International Organization for ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco is trying a new high-tech approach to recycling your bottles and cans. CalRecycle officials announced today they gave the go-ahead to fund a mobile recycling ...

At the end of December 2023, CalRecycle released key building blocks for California’s Senate Bill 54, a law designed to cut single-use packaging and plastic food-ware waste by introducing an extended ...

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. (KGO) -- CalRecycle released new data Tuesday on America Recycles Day, which shows the statewide recycling rate dropped from 2020. The data estimates the statewide recycling rate ...

California’s Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) recently published an update to its list of covered material categories (CMC) and two producer reporting guidance documents to ...

California’s recycling agency exempted more products in its redo of its plastic waste reduction rules after Gov. Gavin Newsom raised concerns about costs. SACRAMENTO, California — California’s ...

California’s ban on Styrofoam will now be enforced after the plastic industry failed to show a 25% recycling rate of the material last year. CalRecycle, the state’s department of resources recycling ...

CalRecycle also published a new Producer Guidance website. Among other things, the new website specifies that, given the May 1 effective date of the regulations, producers will have until June 1, 2026 ...