Politics
States Awash in Plastic Packaging Want Manufacturers to Pay Up
Maine and Oregon have passed laws that force plastic producers to bear some costs of waste management, and Massachusetts and Colorado may be next.
A worker moves bales of plastic bottles at the Sims Municipal Recycling facility in New York City.
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Plastic use is on the rise and it isn’t just clogging oceans, it’s burdening municipal recycling systems around the U.S. The costs of collecting and recycling or landfilling plastic waste have gone up since China stopped importing our trash in 2018.