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When Kate Bennett was done with education, she wanted to start a business that gave her purpose.
Bennett, a Ukraine native, has always been passionate about the environment and combating climate change. So, on June 1, she started New Way Refillery, through which she sells environmentally sustainable products and helps customers reduce waste by refilling used plastic containers.
âIâve always wanted to do my best to help the environment any way I can. Itâs why I went vegetarian and itâs why I started this,â Bennett said. âWeâre in a climate crisis, look at our landfills; we canât keep doing this. We need to be more sustainable.â
Dive Brief:
California lawmakers have reintroduced SB 54, a bill that would require all single-use disposable packaging, including food service packaging, to be recyclable or compostable by January 2032. The bill debuted as part of a unified Democrat-led package of almost a dozen other plastic waste-related bills on March 9.
As currently written, the bill leaves out a major part of previous versions, which had required single-use plastic packaging to have a 75% recycling or composting rate by 2032. Bill sponsors anticipate SB 54 will undergo more updates as the legislative session goes on.
Other new bills aim to standardize recycling labeling on packaging, set minimum recycled content standards for thermoform packaging, and prohibit the state from counting exported plastic scrap in its recycling rate calculations if it is landfilled, burned or dumped.