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Electronics Recycling Earlier versions of this bill were deemed problematic by Congress and its research arm, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) because of trade concerns and the anticompetitive nature of the bill.    SPAN Main

Legislative Races Republicans will continue to dominate state legislatures. After an election in which more than 80 percent of 7,383 state legislative seats nationwide were up for grabs. Republicans, who have dominated control of legislatures since the 2010 mid-term election, held the majority in 67 of the country’s 98 partisan legislative chambers, while Democrats had...

Bills in Virginia and New Jersey will carry over, but all the other states start fresh. Pre-filing became active in 24 states on November 15 with 9 more begin pre-filing in December, leading up to an inevitable flood of legislation when 43 states come back into session in January (2017 State Legislative Session Deadlines). A...

Interestingly, there are also numerous current governors whose career experiences prior to becoming governors were outside of government, and yet they have escaped similar scrutiny. While some may try to identify a correlation between governors with business backgrounds and their states’ business climates, there are far too many factors—and perspectives— to consider in an article...

During ISRI’s participation at the China Scrap Plastics Association (CSPA) meeting at the end of September, we heard several presentations indicating that there is currently significant imbalance between processing capacity in China compared with the domestic supply stream. While plastic bottles are widely used throughout China the postconsumer collection infrastructure is virtually non-existent. Largely, plastics...