Marissa Heffernan is a reporter at Resource Recycling. She focuses on themes related to climate change, sustainability, and the environment, drawing on her extensive experience in environmental reporting. Marissa has been featured in BOND, CLIVE L, University of Arizona, and Resource Recycling, Inc.
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Marissa Heffernan primarily covers topics related to recycling, EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility), packaging, environmental protection, and waste management. Her articles often cite data and government announcements while also featuring press releases.
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By: Marissa Heffernan
Oregon moved its rulemaking process ahead for its extended producer responsibility for packaging law set to roll out next summer, and Circular Action Alliance also released its third program plan draft. Oregon’s Environmental Quality Commission passed the second and …Continue Reading→
Under Maine’s EPR program, signed into law in 2021, producers directly reimburse municipalities for collection and recycling of materials.
Average commodity prices rose slightly in the third quarter of the year due to national and regional trends, though the growth appears to be cooling off, according to the latest report from the Northeast Recycling Council. Continue Reading→
Maine approved rules for its extended producer responsibility law for packaging, three years after becoming the first state to pass packaging EPR. Continue Reading→
Oregon moved its rulemaking process ahead for its extended producer responsibility for packaging law set to roll out next summer, and Circular Action Alliance also released its third program plan draft. Continue Reading→
Maine approved rules for its extended producer responsibility law for packaging, three years after becoming the first state to pass packaging EPR. Continue Reading→
The third iteration of Oregon’s program plan had more accurate cost estimates, after Circular Action Alliance carried out a survey over the summer.
At the 2024 Resource Recycling Conference, attendees discussed a range of hard-to-recycle materials, including textiles.
About 16% of all plastic packaging in Canada was recycled in 2022, according to the latest data from the Canada Plastics Pact.
As technology trade tensions between China and the U.S. escalate, bans on trading minerals used in producing LED screens, semiconductors, chips and batteries are again putting the recycling sector in the spotlight. Continue Reading→
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