Carper Calls For EPA To Strengthen Recycling Strategy, Broaden Scope

Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), ranking member on the Senate Environment & Public Works (EPW) Committee, and state groups are calling on EPA to significantly strengthen its national recycling strategy, saying the agency should expand the plan to emphasize reduction and reuse and move to adopting product stewardship policies. EPA’s draft National Recycling Strategy , which it took comment on through Dec. 4, “is largely a woefully inadequate and unimaginative approach to addressing our country’s wide-ranging and complex recycling problems,” Carper...