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A group of business owners and residents in Portland is pushing for the Oregon Legislature to reconsider the cash refunds offered for recycling beverage containers.

Legislation in Maine would mimic Oregon’s system of giving a recycling cooperative unclaimed deposits. California is mulling changes as well.

Waste would undergo extensive treatment and testing before it’s piped directly to taps, providing a new, costly but renewable water supply. The state’s new draft rules are more than a decade in the making.

For the first time since Oregon’s Bottle Bill recycling program began, Oregonians returned more than two billion beverage containers, as the program paid out more than $205 million to consumers and local nonprofits in 2022.

New York is the latest, and largest, state to consider charging product-makers to dispose of their packaging. But lawmakers are clashing over how much to involve industry in creating a new system.

California's attorney general is investigating oil and gas companies for allegedly deceiving the public that most plastic can be recycled, citing NPR and PBS Frontline's investigation of the industry.

The vast majority of mattresses in Oregon end up in landfills. State lawmakers approved a bill this year that’s meant to change that.

The Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act will overhaul Oregon’s recycling system with plans to make it easier to offload containers and packaging.

At least 85% of single-use plastic items don’t get recycled, even if they carry the familiar triangular symbol. A California bill would restrict which plastics can bear the mark.

As lawmakers hurtle toward adjournment, Democrats are passing their big environmental priorities.

Oregon lawmakers are considering two bills that aim to overhaul the state’s recycling system and require packaging companies to pay for the cost of recycling their products.

A plan to reform the state’s recycling system requires packaging producers to help pay for changes.