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Product Policy Institute Blog: New AMERIPEN Report Passes the Buck on Sustainable Financing for Recycling
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Monday, August 26, 2013. New AMERIPEN Report Passes the Buck on Sustainable Financing for Recycling. By Matt Prindiville, Associate Director. Last week, I heard from a colleague that AMERIPEN (the American Institute for Packaging and the Environment) was releasing a new report analyzing strategies to increase the recovery of post-consumer packaging in the United States. This morning, AMERIPEN released their report. 8220; Analysis of Strategies and Financial. To Increase the Recovery of Used Packaging.
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Product Policy Institute Blog: PPI-PSI Response to the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA)
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Thursday, December 13, 2012. PPI-PSI Response to the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA). PPI) and Product Stewardship Institute. PSI) today released a white paper responding to a recent GMA report that concluded that Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) should not be applied to packaging, and that government, not themselves, should be responsible for their packaging when consumers are done with it. The PPI-PSI white paper, Grocery Manufacturers Seek Government Aid to Recycle Their Packaging. The P...
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Product Policy Institute Blog: July 2013
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013. Upcycling the Upcycle: Thoughts on the new book by McDonough and Braungart. By Matt Prindiville, Associate Director. 8220;The goal of the upcycle is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world with clean air, water, soil, and power – economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed.” - excerpt from the Upcycle by Bill McDonough and Michael Braungart. I recently read Bill McDonough's and Michael Braungart’s new book, the Upcycle. McDonough and Braungart’s...
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Product Policy Institute Blog: Does it matter how we pay for recycling?
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013. Does it matter how we pay for recycling? David is a founding board member of Product Policy Institute and President of Full Circle Environmental, Inc. Does it matter whether we pay for recycling through rates and taxes versus paying as part of the cost of the product? Conversely, we purchase food at stores using our personal earnings, rather than standing in line for allotments of bread and sugar issued by a central government. The quantity of food we want, as well as the ...
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Product Policy Institute Blog: August 2013
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Friday, August 30, 2013. E-waste: California's government-managed program ranks 7th in per capita collection. By Bill Sheehan, Executive Director. A new fact sheet by Barbara Kyle of the Electronics Take-Back Coalition asks the question: How does the California e-waste program compare to other states? California, the first state to pass an e-waste recycling law, established a consumer fee model. Consumers pay a fee at purchase on covered products. Posted by Product Policy Institute. AMERIPEN is a trade a...
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Product Policy Institute Blog: September 2013
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013. Putting boundaries on selling Stuff. By Bill Sheehan, Executive Director. Focuses on policy solutions. Impacts), getting a handle on the flow of goods and materials gets at the heart of some pretty big problems. I understand that establishing corporate accountability for the impacts of manufactured Stuff is just one piece of a big puzzle. But it is an underappreciated strategy that has potential for transformative change far beyond recycling. Posted by Product Policy Institute.
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Rob's Ramblings: Translink Fare Increase Talking Points
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Thursday, November 15, 2012. Translink Fare Increase Talking Points. Transportation is one of the highest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in our regions so it is important to shift to less polluting modes. Metro Vancouver with a transit modal share of only 13% lags behind many world class cities that have modal shares of 40-60%. Zurich has achieved a transit modal share of 63% by keeping fares relatively low (a one zone monthly fare card is about 40% less than one in Vancouver). Van Green Biz Blog.
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Rob's Ramblings: 05/01/2011 - 06/01/2011
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Thursday, May 19, 2011. More Evidence of BC Climate Leadership Failure. Canada's latest greenhouse gas emission inventory report. Was quietly released this week. The numbers are from 2009 (it takes over a year to compile the numbers and for some reason Canada seems to be about a month behind most other nations). The release came only a few days after BC's new premier Christy Clark had announced. Although it is still early in the carbon tax regime I think it is becoming increasing clear that this policy ...
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Rob's Ramblings: My Comments to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel
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Friday, February 01, 2013. My Comments to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel. The official transcript is at: https:/ www.neb-one.gc.ca/ll-eng/livelink.exe? I have made small edits for clarity. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for listening. As you probably know, just this month the National Resource Defence Council in the United States released some information showing that we’ve actually been underestimating the CO2 warming potential from tar sands fossil fuels. Nicholas Stern, who wrote ...
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Rob's Ramblings: 06/01/2014 - 07/01/2014
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Sunday, June 08, 2014. Let's Be Honest about Rejecting Resource Extraction. My response to an interview with Dan Miller on CBC Radio's The 180:. Your interview with Dan Miller contained more misinformed views than I have probably heard in any single interview. On the other hand his arguments were entirely emotional with no evidence offered to support his position. He made a passing reference to the amount of single-occupancy vehicles in the Metro Vancouver area. He conveniently ignores that fact that...
