Archives: recycling

Greenwashing Lawsuit Alleging Plastic Pollution by PepsiCo is Dismissed

After this blog was posted, on December 9, 2024, Letitia James, the Attorney General of the State of New York filed a Notice Of Appeal of her office’s loss described below, to the Supreme Court of the State of New York. On October 31, PepsiCo won a victory obtaining the complete dismissal with prejudice of … Continue Reading

Solar Panels may be Hazardous Waste No More

By Stuart Kaplow on November 19, 2023 Posted in Codes and Regulations, Energy, recycling, Solar Panel

The proposed addition of solar panels to the universal waste regulations … Continue Reading

EPA Releases Draft National Recycling Strategy

By Stuart Kaplow on November 29, 2020 Posted in Federal, IgCC, LEED, recycling

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a draft National Recycling Strategy and is seeking public comment through December 4, 2020, with the goal of finalizing it in early 2021. Maybe not since Plato wrote about the value of reusing waste in the fourth century BC has recycling faced the challenges that we are seeing right now. … Continue Reading

Recycled Restaurant Waste Cooking Oil Can Trigger Insurance Pollution Exclusion

By Stuart Kaplow on May 12, 2019 Posted in Environmental, recycling

In a case having broad implications given the wide mandatory recycling of restaurant waste cooking oil across the country, in a decision filed on April 29, 2019, a federal appeals court held that contaminated recycled fat could trigger the “pollution exclusion” in an insurance policy. In Restaurant Recycling, LLC v. Employer Mutual Casualty Company, Restaurant … Continue Reading

The World is being Forced to Rethink Recycling

By Stuart Kaplow on April 29, 2018 Posted in Environmental, Green Globes, LEED, recycling

Maybe not since Plato wrote about the value of reusing waste in the fourth century BC has recycling undergone the wide fluctuation, good and bad, that we are seeing right now. Today, the world has been forced to rethink its approach to waste. China is driving the change in recycling. Most recently, China imposed a … Continue Reading

The Systole and Diastole in Recycling

By Stuart Kaplow on October 29, 2017 Posted in recycling, Sustainability

Recycling is not new. 11,000 years before Christ the people in the Nile valley recognized the intrinsic value of reusing waste. But maybe not since that dawn of civilization has recycling undergone the wide fluctuation, good and bad, that we are seeing right now. The bad news is that on July 18, China notified the … Continue Reading

Green Building Law Update

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