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AWARDS

 

Arrow Awards

 

Overview

The California Product Stewardship Council recognizes California businesses for outstanding leadership, innovation and partnerships in product stewardship and green design. The Arrow Awards recognize innovative product stewardship programs, outstanding partnerships in product stewardship and serve to inspire organizations to integrate the principles of product stewardship.

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Learn more about current and previous awards!

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Nominations for 2023 Arrow Awards will be accepted in Spring 2023.

Winners will be announced at CRRA’s 47th Annual Conference and Trade Show in 2023!

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Eligibility

Any business entity (division or facility located in California), third party stewardship organizations and non‐profits are eligible to apply.

 

Award Recipient Benefits

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• A custom-designed award made of recycled materials by Bay Area artist Ellen Blakeley presented at an evening awards event attended by more than 700 local and state government representatives, state legislators and industry representatives.

• Statewide media coverage

• Organization’s profile on CPSC’s Arrow Awards web page for one year

• Organization’s profile in CPSC’s electronic newsletter, distributed to more than 3,000 viewers

• Organization’s video (if submitted) uploaded to CPSC’s YouTube Channel

• Use of Arrow Awards medallion on organization’s public relations materials

• Ongoing promotion and support from CPSC

• A link from CPSC’s website to award recipients

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Award Categories

 

Overall Excellence Award:  The Golden Arrow Award for Overall Excellence in Product Stewardship

This award will be given to a company that demonstrates excellence in several aspects of product stewardship, including green design, toxics reduction, packaging reduction, increased reuse, repair, re-manufacture, convenient product take-back and end of life (EOL) management for one or more products.

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Note: Do not apply for this award. The Golden Arrow Award winner will be selected by the review panel from the applicants of the categories below. If you wish to be considered for the Golden Arrow Award, then ensure your application speaks to all three individual categories.

 

Green Arrow Award for System and Design Innovations

This award will be given to a company that demonstrates an innovative product, package or system-approach that removes or reduces toxic or other problematic attributes present in other similar products. Examples: citrus cleaners that replace petroleum solvents; refillable packaging vs. one-way disposable; integrated (cradle-to-cradle) approach to providing a product, i.e., prepaid mailer to return product to manufacturer for reuse or recycling.

 

The Bow and Arrow Award for Coalition Building

This award will be given to a company or group that has excelled in building partnerships and demonstrating the inter-dependence between producers, distributors, retailers, public agencies and other stakeholders. The award may recognize a producer, a group of producers, an industry or trade association, or a stewardship organization that works with public agencies, retailers or other stakeholders to deal with EOL issues.

 

The Infinity Arrow Award for Service and Take-Back

This award will recognize a retail business, group of businesses, or chain that has initiated an outstanding Take Back program for one or more product as an additional convenience and service to their customers, and works with the producers of those products in developing safe storage and recovery of EOL products and packages.

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Read more about current and previous award winning
companies. View pictures from the ceremonies and
see the press on CPSC's arrow awards.

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Pictured right: Group photo featuring the 2022 Arrow 
Award recipients, CPSC staff, and CPSC board members.

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Legislative Awards

 

Overview

The California Product Stewardship Council recognizes California legislators for outstanding leadership, innovative solutions, and development of strategic partnerships in regards to statewide policies on product stewardship and green design. Read more about current and previous award winning legislators.

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Associate/Sponsor of the Year Awards

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Overview

The California Product Stewardship Council recognizes associates and partners for outstanding leadership in their field, innovative solutions to longstanding issues, and effective partnership in regards to product stewardship and green design in California. Read more about current and previous award winning local governments and sponsors.

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PRESS FEATURING CPSC

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• ​California could make apparel producers liable for textile waste - Sourcing Journal, 3/6/2023

• California legislature takes on textiles - Recycling Today, 3/3/23

• Fashion companies would have to help recycle clothes under proposed California bill - Paradise Post, 3/3/2022

• California legislature takes on textiles - Waste Today, 3/3/2023 

• Fashion companies would have to help recycle clothes under proposed California bill - The Mendocino Beacon, 3/3/2022

• Fashion companies would have to help recycle clothes under proposed California bill - The Orange County Register, 3/2/2023

• California, US introduces bill for collection & recycling of textiles - Fibre2Fashion, 3/2/2022

• Legislation Introduced to create first-of-its-kind EPR textile recycling and repair program in CA - Waste Advantage, 2/28/2023

• A California bill wants to make brands responsible for fashion's waste problem - Vogue Business, 2/27/23

• Tracking 2022 recycling laws by state - WasteDive, 11/29/22

• After Hours: Sacramento Area Sustainable Business Awards - Sacramento Business Journal, 10/20/22

• SF State students give fresh look to unwanted clothing through repair and redesign - San Francisco State University News, 10/13/22

• Follow These Simple Rules When You Want to Recycle Your Bike - Yahoo! News, 10/4/22

• Goodwill and the California Product Stewardship Council partner on used apparel - KALW, 10/3/22

• California targets battery and device collection - Recycling Today, 9/20/22

• California governor signs recycling and waste bills as part of climate change package - WasteDive, 9/19/22

• California governor signs bills expanding e-scrap recycling - E-Scrap News, 9/19/22

• Two Landmark Bills in California Aiming to Increase Battery Recycling Signed Into Law - Waste Advantage Magazine, 9/19/22

• California Passes Two New Bills to Overhaul State’s Battery Extended Producer Responsibility Program and Broadly Expand State’s E-Waste Program - Beveridge & Diamond PC, 9/8/22

• California takes action to cut more plastics waste, including grocery produce bags - LA Times, 9/5/22

• California legislation develops statewide battery recycling program - Waste Today, 9/1/22

• Bill to expand California e-scrap program passes - E-Scrap News, 9/1/22

• California legislature advances battery EPR and takeback bills, aiming to avert facility fires - WasteDive, 8/31/22

• Non-profits honor California Legislators, including Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, and staff for advancing circular and equitable economy legislation - Amigos805, 8/25/22

• More Propane, More Problems: California Likely to Pass Ban on Single-Use Gas Cans - Gear Junkie, 8/25/22

• California could be first state to ban 1-lb propane cylinders used by campers - San Francisco Chronicle, 8/24/22

• California Assembly Approves Bill to Phase Out 1-Pound, Single-Use Propane Cylinders – Yosemite National Park Propane Cylinders Available to Purchase Inside the Park are Refillable - Sierra Sun Times, 8/16/22

• Bill To Prohibit One Pound Disposable Propane Tanks Passed By Assembly - California Globe, 8/16/22

• Bill To Eliminate Single Use Propane Cylinders Passes Assembly - Patch, 8/15/22

• Reducing Your Home's Environmental Impact Isn't as Complicated as it Seems - Inside Hook, 8/9/22

• What Is Extended Producer Responsibility in Textiles — and What’s Missing From Current Policies? - Conscious Life and Style, 7/29/22

• Lawmakers spending the week in Maine, Canada - CalMatters, 7/26/22

• Supes back propane canister ban - Mad River Union, 7/21/22

• California went big on rooftop solar. It created an environmental danger in the process - LA Times, 07/14/22

• ThredUp, Rent the Runway, The RealReal Rally For Reuse Reform - Sourcing Journal, 7/13/22

• Illegal dumps chock Bay Area watersheds and open space - The Mercury News, 6/20/22

• Is Recycled Polyester From Water Bottles Greenwashing? - Ecocult, 6/16/22

• Key takeaways from the Global Fashion Summit: More diversity, more collaboration - Vogue Business, 6/13/22

• Your Clothes Can Have an Afterlife: NIST report identifies strategies for greater reuse and recycling of textiles - NIST, 5/9/22

• Solar Panel Recycling Pilot Wraps Up in City of Santa Monica, CA - Waste Advantage Magazine, 4/22/22

• Legislation to keep batteries out of landfills passes first committee - Orange County Breeze, 4/25/22

• Q&A: Doug Kobold of the California Product Stewardship Council discusses how products can be disposed of properly without harming the environment - Sacramento News & Review, 4/20/22

• Fashion Industry, We Must Prepare for New Regulations - Sourcing Journal, 4/15/22

• California Voice: Goal to keep batteries out of landfills needs a recharge - Marin Independent Journal, 4/9/22

• Opinion: California goal to keep batteries out of landfills needs a recharge - Silicon Valley, 4/6/22

• New legislation proposed a statewide program to recycle batteries - Orange County Breeze, 2/26/22

• Will California go big on climate action? Here's what lawmakers want - Los Angeles Times, 2/24/22

• California launches circularity projects focused on repair and reuse of textiles - Recycling Product News, 2/9/22

• California Launches Innovative Textiles Circularity Projects: Part 2 – Waste 360, 2/9/22

• California Launches Innovative Textiles Circularity Projects: Part 1 – Waste 360, 2/8/22

• Lithium Battery Fires Are Threatening Recycling as We Know It - VICE, 2/1/22

• California Industry Group Takes On Textile Waste - Sourcing Journal, 1/11/22

• Textile Industry Urged to Fund Circularity - Ecotextile, 1/4/22

• Alameda County, CA and Delta Diablo Partner with State on Expired Marine Flare Collection Events - Waste Advantage, 10/8/21

• Facilitating a Circular Economy for Textiles – Federal NIST workshop, 9/21/21 – 9/23/21

• Solidarity in the Secondhand Supply Chain – Fashion Revolution Panel, 9/16/21

• The Future of Fashion: 5 Voices in Fashiontech - Maggie Green Style, 09/15/21

• California: Home to Global Innovators in Waste Reduction- Waste Advantage Magazine, 8/18/21

• RRWA: Safe medicine disposal program update for Mendocino and Sonoma counties- Ukiah Daily Journal, 8/3/21

• Huntington Beach marine flare safety; Resident coupon for reusable alternative- Huntington Beach News, 7/20/21

• Crown Ace Hardware hosts special propane cylinder giveaway- Huntington Beach News, 7/19/21

• Eco-tip: Options slim for treated wood disposal, solutions needed from state- VC Star, 7/3/21

• An Analysis of Lithium-ion Battery Fires in Waste Management and Recycling- US EPA, 07/2021

• Aquafil Carpet Recycling Facility: Tour and Interview Hosted by CPSC- CPSC, 05/2021

• The Morning Show featuring Dr. Joanne Brasch- KSVY 91.3 FM Sonoma Valley, 5/6/21

• Sustainability Blog: And the fastest-growing waste stream is...-City of Thousand Oaks, April 2021

• Fibershed Solutions to Microplastic Problems: Why textiles need to be at the core of California's action on microplastics- Fibershed, 4/15/21

• California successfully installs 250 medication disposal bins across state- Waste Today Magazine, 4/9/21

• California Product Stewardship Council Battery Fire Report 2021- Waste Advantage Magazine, 3/24/21

• What's the Latest Research on Synthetic Microfiber Pollution from Fashion?- EcoCult, 3/22/21

• Eye on the Environment | Unintended consequences from light bulb ban?- VC Reporter, 3/18/21

• Waste, Reuse and Recycling - Dissecting Current Market Trends and Legislation on Recycling, Producer Responsibility, and How Reuse and Recycling Conserves Resources- KSQD 90.7 Santa Cruz, 3/10/21

• Waste360 Announces 2021 40 Under 40 Awards Winners- Waste360, 3/4/21

• Conscious couture: How Lowell students can make a difference with what they wear- The Lowell, 2/17/21

• End-of-life regulation is coming for fashion- Vogue Business, 2/4/21

• Eye on the Environment | How Much Wood Would You Chuck at $500 Per Ton?- VC Reporter, 12/23/20

• Extended Producer Responsibility and Unique Waste Streams- SWANA NorCal Webinar, 12/12/20

• Why today's 'fast fashions' can be bad for the planet- Science News for Students, 12/10/20

• Eco-tip: How would you treat treated wood? Relaxed rules expire next month- VC Star, 11/14/20

• Clearing the air by tracking toxics and chemicals- The Acorn, 11/12/20

• Eye on the Environment | Tracking Toxins and Talking Transitions- VC Reporter, 10/28/20

• Priority Product Survey Results 2020- CPSC, 10/21/20

• Eco-tip: When the state stopped playing a 'high-stakes game of chemical whack-a-mole'- VC Star, 10/17/20

• California Ramps Up Consumer Drug Takeback Program with Help- Waste360, 9/23/20

• It's Time to Invest In Our Clothing: Clothing Repair, Reuse, & Repurposing Are No Longer An Option, But A Necessity- AATCC, 9/10/20

• LED marine flare company wins waste reduction award in California- The Log, 9/5/20

• California legislature passes recycled content mandate, EPR bills stall for a second year in a row- Waste Dive, 9/1/20

• CPSC Executive Director Doug Kobold to Discuss Waste, Climate Change, and Arrow Awards- KZFR 90.1 Chico, 8/25/20

• LED Marine Flare Company Wins Coveted Waste Reduction Award in California- Cision PRWeb, 8/25/20

• Several California Companies Working Together to Solve the Waste Crisis Through Innovative Business Models- Waste Today, 8/19/20

• California's Top Companies Recognized for Product Stewardship and Green Job Creation- Recycling Product News, 8/18/20

• Sirius Signal to Receive the Green Arrow Award from the California Product Stewardship Council- Sirius Signal, 8/8/20

• Sen. Patricia Bates Applauds Expansion of California Drug Take-Back Program - Orange County Breeze, 8/5/20

• Medication Take-Back Bins Installed at Pasadena Vons Locations - PasadenaNow.com, 8/5/20

• Solar Panel Recycling Research from the Counties of Butte and San Mateo and the City of Santa Monica - IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference, 6/18/20 and supporting 5-minute video

• Class Is In Session- Sportswear International, 4/14/20

• California Pushes for Solar Panel Waste Policy- Waste360, 3/31/20

• To combat opioid crisis, California Take-Back drugs program available for Pass area- Record Gazette, 2/5/20

• Medicine disposal bins now available- Del Norte Triplicate, 1/30/20

• Fashion has a misinformation problem. That's bad for the environment- Vox, 1/27/20

• California PFAS priority product proposal sparks discord- ChemicalWatch, 1/22/20

• Waste Connections cities batteries in trash, recycling fires- The Columbian, 11/21/19

• Sustainable Textiles in the Fashion Industry- Waste Advantage Magazine, 11/4/19

• Life In Plastic: California's Recycling Woes- KCET Socal Connected, 10/15/19

• The Power & Influence Behind the World of Recycling- KCET Socal Connected, 10/15/19

• Smarter Scoring scores $17M to reduce chemical waste- Austin Business Journal, 9/23/19

• Single-Use Packaging Proposal on Pause in California- resource-recycling.com, 9/17/19

• Short circuiting the circular economy- resource-recycling.com, 9/1/19

• Drug Disposal Bins Coming to California- drugtopics.com, 8/27/19

• Dispose of unused medications properly- Recordnet.com, 8/1/19

• Pot Stickler- PacificSun, 7/10/19

• Good News for Cities: Producer-Paid Medication and Needle Collection Is Coming- Western Cities, 7/1/19

• Why a California lawmaker wants to ban cigarette filters and disposable vapes- CalMatters, 6/25/19

• California Product Stewardship Council lauds Canadian government initiative on plastics- Recycling Product News, 6/18/19

• Panels Be Gone- Chico News and Review, 6/13/19​

• New global sustainability standard for solar modules in the works- PV Magazine, 6/4/19

• Protecting Butte County Together- Chico News and Review, 5/23/19

• NorCal Officials Discuss Drug Take-Back- KCRA 3 News, 4/26/19

• National Drug Take-Back Day Gives Area Residents a Chance to Drop-Off  Unused Old Drugs- Stockton Record, 4/27/19

• Eco-tip Batteries Not Included In Your Garbage Can or Recycling Cart- vcstar.com, 4/17/19

• California Readies for Statewide Extended Producer Responsibility for Pharma Waste- Lexology, 4/4/19​

• Drug Take-Back Program Goes Statewide- SF Estuary Institute, 1/7/19

• Recyclable plastic is ending up in landfills- ABC 7 News, 12/6/18