2007-2008 Press Archive

CPSC Press Releases

See published responses to press releases below in CPSC In the Media

• 10/20/08: New Law to Provide Free Mercury Thermostat Recycling
  
  
  • AB2347 press conference, Palo Alto Water Treatment Facility
• 10/9/08: Website Launch "Designed to Become Best Source for EPR News & Resources"
  
• 9/16/08: San Francisco Resolution Calls for Legislation on Product Waste Responsibility
  
  
• 8/22/08: CPSC & Yolo Adopt Producer Responsibility Resolution
  
  
• 7/15/08: CPSC Celebrates First National Policy Supporting Framework for Sustainable Production
  
  
• Report on Accesses to the press release on PR Newswire web site
• 3/3/08: CPSC and Sierra Club Sponsor California Bill to Recycle Old Mercury Thermostats
• 2/8/07: 600 Million and Counting
  A media release on the first year anniversary of the Universal Waste hazardous products ban in California and the formation of the California Product Stewardship Council
  
  

CPSC in the Media

• 10/22/08: Canadian Wire Service Runs CPSC Thermostat Press Release —PR-Canada.net
• Winter 2008: CPSC Helps Take-Back Take Off — Fostering Producer Responsibility —Central Contra Costa Waste Authority newsletter: Diversions
• 9/29/08: S. F. Pushes for Producer Responsibility: WasteNews article about EPR [JPG]
  (when image opens, click on it for larger view) —WasteNews
• 9/19/08: CPSC Pursues Comprehensive Take-back, Recycling Bill for 2009 —Inside CalEPA
• 9/16/08: San Francisco Resolution Calls for Legislation on Product Stewardship — MarketWatch
  
• 9/5/08: National Public Radio spotlights Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in national broadcast! Special guests Sego Jackson & David Stitzhal talk about product stewardship movements.
  Read about it and listen to the audio —KUOW
• 8/31/08: Diabetics React to Sharps "Ban Without a Plan" —Daily Breeze, Torrance
• 8/31/08: CPSC Executive Director, Heidi Sanborn, comments on September 1st Sharps Ban —Los Angeles Daily News
• 8/24/08: Yolo adopts resolution to reduce waste, producers responsible —Woodland Record
• 8/10/08: A Sorted Affair: Planned Obsolescence —Jane Bogner, Valcore
• 8/5/08: The Emergence of Regional and Local Product Stewardship Programs —John H. Skinner, Ph.D., Solid Waste Association of North America
• 7/15/08: CPSC Celebrates First National Policy Supporting Framework for Sustainable Production —San Francisco Business Times
• 6/22/08: Inside Medicine: 'Green,' recycling don't always mesh —Sacramento Bee article by Dr. Michael Wilkes
  
  
• 6/08: Heidi Sanborn: Pay now, or pay later in a throw away world —In Women We Trust, Mary Clare Hunt
  
  
• 5/18/008: How to Recycle Your Bulbs —Jennifer Olney, San Francisco ABC News
  Coverage of the workshop on fluorescent lamps in Sacramento 4/30/08
  
  Several presenters went on-camera, including CPSC Board Chair Rob D'Arcy, Rex Bell from PG&E, and Jen Dolin from OSRAM-Sylvania, talking about their consideration of aligning with their German parent company to collect and recycle lamps with help from other stakeholders
  
  
• 4/8/08: Product Stewardship is a Better Way —Times Standard article by Kevin Hendrick
  
  
• 11/07: Forming Product Stewardship Councils to Support Extended Producer Responsibility
  — Lois Courchaine, Central Contra Costa Solid Waste Authority (SWANA) Newsletter

Other Product Stewardship Press Releases

• 11/18/08: Clorox announces Brita recycling program thanks to Take Back the Filter campaign
• 10/20/08: Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy expands medication “take back” sites
• 10/20/08: DTSC Lauds New Mercury Thermostat Recycling Law
• 10/20/08: Sierra Club Hails Thermostat Recycling Law AB2347 as Model
  
  
• 4/27/09: Yolo County Partners with CPSC on Sharps Recycling Program
  

Product Stewardship in the Media

• 12/23/08: Product Stewardship Gains More Allies —GreenerDesign staff, GreenBiz.com
  
  
• 12/1/08: Product makers take back disposal duty —Jennifer Grzeskowiak, American City and County Magazine
  
  
• 9/25/08: IBM announces new consulting service to help clients make "greener" products.
  "Governments, environmental advocacy groups, and most of all consumers are demanding that companies do better, and designing a product from the start to be eco-friendly throughout its lifetime is the most effective way to do that." —IBM
  
  
• 9/19/08: S.F. Supervisors Push For State-Level EPR —GreenBiz
  
  
• 9/17/08: San Francisco Resolution Targets Manufacturers —Waste Age
  
  
• 8/20/08: Fluorescent Lights Are Worth the Cost —Contra Costa Times article by Lois Courchaine, Central Contra Costa Solid Waste Authority
  
  
• 7/16/08: It's chemical warfare in Capitol —Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee
  
  
• Dell Talks about EPR for the Electronics Industry —Environmental Leader 3/23/08