Senate Panel Eyes Potential Solutions To Advancing ‘Circular Economy’

The Senate environment committee is exploring possible ways to advance a “circular economy,” with a bipartisan group of senators holding recent roundtable discussions with a diverse group of stakeholders and probing the issue further at a recent hearing, seeking possible solutions to addressing obstacles to recycling, reuse and reducing materials. Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) Chair Tom Carper (D-DE) said at the Sept. 22 hearing that the information shared at the roundtable discussions “was in part sobering, but also...