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In the late 1940s, following wartime-driven innovation, the mass production of inexpensive plastics revolutionized American ...

The organization says that while the 2024 U.S. PET recycling rate declined to 30.2 percent from the high of 32.5 percent ...

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The organization says the paper offers a consensus-built framework to help policymakers as they craft EPR legislation.