2011 Press

Press Archives

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Recent CPSC Press Releases

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

• 12/14/10: City of San Francisco — First City in US to Pass Pharmaceuticals Stewardship Legislation —CPSC
  

CPSC in the Media

• 12/11/11: Shock to the System —Waste Age Magazine, Authored by Heidi Sanborn
  
  
• 11/9/11: The Plastic Problem —East Bay Express
  
  
• 9/7/11: Napa's Recycling Manager Wins Honors —Napa Valley Register
  
  
• 8/6/11: Sustainable Packaging Supplement to LA Times —An independent advertising supplement by MediaPlanet
  
  
• 6/24/11:  Santa Clara County Bans Export of Electronic Waste —San Jose Mercury News
  
  
• 5/1/11: Statewide Stewardship —SF Apartment Mazagine, Authored by Heidi Sanborn May 2011 (submitted April 2011)
  
  
• 5/1/11: Putting a Lid on Paint —Authored by Heidi Sanborn, WasteAge.com
  
  
• 5/1/11: Paint Stewardship Means Less Government and Cost, and More Recycling Options
  —Waste Advantage Magazine
  
  
• 4/15/11: California Carpet Stewardship —U.S. Green Building Council, Northern California Chapter
  
  
• 3/25/11: CalChamber Committee Hears from Product Stewardship Executive —CalChamber Alert
  
  
• 3/1/11: Paint Project Has Statewide Economic Benefits —Sacramento Bee
  
  
• 2/10/11: Paint Stewardship: Please Specify Recycled Paint —US Green Building Council News
  
  
• 2/2/11: The Total Package —Foothills Sun-Gazette
  
  

Other Product Stewardship Press Releases

• 12/14/11: Battery Industry Presses Ahead with Voluntary Recycling Program —The Corporation for Battery Recycling
• 6/23/11: E-Waste Export Bill to Stop Global E-Waste Dumping & Boost Green Jobs
  —Electronics TakeBack Coalition
• 6/16/11: Texas Finally Has Statewide Television Recycling Law —Texas Campaign for the Environment
• 6/8/11: Maine Expands E-Waste Law to Cover Schools and Businesses —Maine Legislature
• 6/7/11: Most Drug Makers Failing at Providing Safe Needle Disposal, Report Card Shows
  —California Sharps Coalition
  
• 5/19/11: Vermont Governor signs Mercury Producer Responsibility Law —Mercury Policy Project & PSI
• 5/5/11: Vermont legislature passes bill to create EPR recycling program for mercury-containing light bulbs —VPIRG Vermont's Voice
• 4/27/11: Shareholder Resolutions Ask Major Packaged Goods Companies to Adopt Extended Producer Responsibility —As You Sow Press Release
• 4/18/11: On Earth Day North Bay Recycler Asks Hallmark to Make Easter Less Hazardous
  —Marin Sanitation Services
• 3/5/10: Reusable Packaging Association Supports Product Stewardship Policy and Framework Principles —Reusable Packaging Association
  

Product Stewardship in the Media

• 9/27/11: Product Management Alliance Launches to Promote & Protext Free Market Product Stewardship Solutions —Product Management Alliance
• 9/5/11: MBA Polymers in That Used To Be Us, with New York Times Review —New York Times
• 7/20/11: Report: Feds to Ban E-waste It Generates from Landfills —Waste & Recycling News
• 6/30/11: Fight Over EPR in Small Massachusetts City —Resource Recycling Newsletter
• 6/21/11: Article on the New Australian Product Stewardship Act —Inside Waste Weekly
• 6/1/11: Collected Thoughts: Get in the Game—Waste Age
• 5/24/11: CEO Pushes Extended Producer Responsibility Laws —Plastics News, May 2011
• 4/19/11: As You Sow Leans on Beverage Giants to Improve Recycling —Greenbiz
  Authored by Conrad Mackerron of As You Sow, Partner of CPSC
• 4/13/11: Organizations Work to Divert Batteries from Landfills —Pasadena Star-News
  Authored by Cynthia Kurtz of the San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership
• 4/10/11: Hidden Danger —Star Ledger
• 4/7/11: PET Recycling Needed to Meet Market Demand —Waste & Recycling Magazine
• 3/21/11: Pressing Starbucks on Recycling Commitments —Triple Pundit
• 3/1/11: Waste Not —E-The Environmental Magazine
• 1/26/11: Down Side of Energy Efficient Fluorescent Bulbs —Press Democrat