Opposition to credits for burning garbage
California Assembly Bill 655 (AB 655) would allow the state’s waste incinerators to qualify as renewable energy, giving these polluting facilities a financial bailout. The state RPS will not work if it includes facilities that create pollution.
See http://www.no-burn.org/oppose-california-ab-655-no-rps-for-burning-waste/.
California’s carpet recycling law
California’s Carpet Stewardship Law is the first and only law in the U.S. that placed responsibility for establishing a recycling infrastructure on carpet producers. The law established a producer-implemented / consumer-funded program to help alleviate the landfill burden and promote a circular economy of carpet waste being reduced (through reuse and optimization) and recycled.
Yet CARE’s Stewardship Program is heavy on incineration and meager on recycling.
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