APR Applauds California Recycled Content Bill
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The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) applauds Cal- ifornia Governor Gavin Newsom for signing the United States’ first ever recycled content mandate for plastic bev- erage containers, California Assembly Bill 793. The law re- quires all plastic bottles covered by the state’s container redemption program average at least 15 percent postcon- sumer resin (PCR) starting in 2022. The recycled content mandate increases to 25 percent in 2025 and 50 percent in 2030. As the international trade association representing the plastics recycling industry,APR strongly supports efforts to increase collection and supply of postconsumer recycled plastics to augment and sustain recycled content initiatives. TheAPR was the first plastics related organization to public- ly support mandatory recycled content legislation in 2006. “The passage of this bill is a critical step forward,” stated Steve Alexander, President and CEO of the APR.“Mandated PCR content creates market demand, which in turn mone- tizes the entire waste and recycling management system.” Beverage manufacturers that miss the targets will be sub- ject to penalty fees of 20 cents for each pound of PCR by which they fall short. The money will be deposited into a new“Recycling Enhancement Penalty Account,”and is to be spent on recycling, infrastructure, collection and processing of plastic beverage bottles. “This is clearly a step in the right direction, but this is only the first step,” said Alexander.“We need to look at more minimum PCR requirements for all plastic packaging. APR looks forward to working with consumer brand companies to meet the requirements of this bill as well as their sustain- ability goals.” Containerboard Production On The Rise Containerboard production in the United States in August rose by 0.4 percent compared with August 2019, according to theAmerican Forest & PaperAssociation (AF&PA).Year to date, containerboard output has risen by 4 percent. The containerboard mill operating rate inAugust was 92.1 percent, according to the AF&PA, which represents a 0.4 percent decline from August 2019. The average mill oper- ating rate in 2020, however, is up by 2.7 percentage points year-to-date. AF&P said mill inventories of containerboard at the end of August increased 35,000 short tons from the previous month, and were up 68,000 short tons compared with Au- gust 2019. The organization also has reported that recycled-content boxboard production in the United States in August de- creased 6 percent compared with August 2019.Year-to-date, output of the grade has declined by 2 percent. The total boxboard mill operating rate (for recycled-con- tent and solid bleached production) was 90.4 percent in August 2020, down by 3.6 points fromAugust 2019, and it is down 0.4 percentage points year-to-date.
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