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Produce Stickers: The Benefits of Going Compostable

Today's guest blog is authored by Olga Kachook of NERC Advisory Member The Sustainable Packaging Coalition. Last of a three-part series. The original post can be read here.

*This blog is the third and final post in the produce sticker series. You can read the first piece: Produce Stickers: A Small but Mighty Problem, here, and the second: Produce Stickers: Are they the Next Straw, here

How might something as small as a produce sticker help divert more food scraps and prevent methane in landfills? One solution involves compostability. In part 2 of this produce sticker series, we explored compostable produce stickers as one possible alternative…

Why Paper Is Easier to Recycle Than Plastic

Today's guest blog is authored by NERC Board Member Chaz Miller. The original posting can be found here.

At a recent Congressional hearing, two Senators lamented the gap between paper and plastic recycling. After all, the US EPA says paper has a 68 percent recycling rate compared to nine percent for plastics. They wanted to know why.

The answer is fairly simple. Paper and plastics are used to make very different products which are…

Chula Vista Awareness Campaign: Residents Learn to Properly Manage Disposal of Batteries and Personal Electronics

Today's guest blog is courtesy of NERC Advisory Member The Recycling Partnership. The original post can be read here.

Some batteries and personal electronics (PEs) can explode or cause fires when discarded in household trash or curbside recycling bins/carts. In fact, more than 1,800 waste and recycling facilities in North America—or roughly 40%—experienced fires annually in recent years, according to California’s Statewide Commission on Recycling Markets and Curbside Recycling.

Such incidents can harm workers and damage property and equipment in waste and recycling operations as well as pose dangers to nearby communities. Plus, potentially hazardous material in batteries and PEs could be released as pollutants into the air, soil, and water. Given the rapid increase of batteries and rechargeable electronics, this problem is likely to grow in the future.

To prevent such hazards, citizens must…

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