Environment Politics Washington lawmakers look at making packaging producers pay for recycling
Washington’s recycling system may soon get a makeover.
A proposal to require companies to reduce unnecessary packaging and fund statewide recycling services is making its way through the Legislature this year.
The goal is to give more people the opportunity to recycle more types of products and to incentivize packaging producers to use sustainable materials, said bill sponsor Rep. Liz Berry, D-Seattle. Currently, what can be recycled differs by city, and 11 counties have no recycling services at all. Under this proposal, everyone in the state would use the same system.
“Recycling will become really affordable, really convenient and really equitable,” Berry told the Standard. “It will create this circular, sustainable economic model for recyclable materials.”
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