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EPR Packaging Platform: OPEN FOR COMMENT

March 7, 2013 Over the last four months, members of the CRADLE2 Coalition have developed a draft EPR Packaging Platform for Reducing, Reusing and Recycling Packaging.  This document has been through one comment period, and we have decided to open it for an additional comment period to close on April 30th.  The purpose of the document is to identify and clarify public interest principles that should be included in EPR packaging legislation and implementation.  The target audiences are policy makers [...]

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Packaging & Rhode Island

The Senate Commission to Study Producer Responsibility Models for Packaging and Printed Paper held its third and fourth meetings in January.  Jamie Rhodes, Executive Director of Clean Water Action Rhode Island and CRADLE2 Steering Committee member, sits on the Commission.   The Commission has heard from local governments, waste haulers, public interest groups and businesses in support, opposed and neutral to EPR.   Members will be deliberating over the next month and will release a report with recommendations for how to move [...]

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Who We Are

The CRADLE² coalition is a national alliance of public interest organizations working to make products and packaging more sustainable.  CRADLE2 represents organizations and citizens across the nation united by our common concern about the squandering of our natural resources, the impacts of waste on climate change, and the loss of jobs from wasting valuable, recyclable materials in landfills and incinerators.  We are also concerned about the human and environmental health impacts of toxic chemicals used in everyday products, and the [...]

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British Columbia’s New EPR Handbook for Consumers

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by Bill Sheehan, Executive Director, Product Policy Institute I just received the new updated British Columbia’s Recycling Handbook.  It provides a fascinating glimpse, for Americans, of how discarded products will be managed when those who design, market and use products and associated packaging – producers and consumers – are responsible for managing them at end of life.  It’s called extended producer responsibility, or  EPR for short. The booklet is for consumers.  As the subtitle states, this is A Simple Guide to What [...]

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