EPA Strategy Coming to Combat Plastic Pollution, Boost Recycling

The EPA expects to release in a few months a national strategy to reduce plastic waste, improve recycling, and boost the market for recycled goods, a senior agency official said Thursday.

The Environmental Protection Agency is working to transform its approach to solid waste management and recycling, said Nena Shaw, acting director for resource conservation and sustainability in EPA’s Office of Land and Emergency Management.

Shaw updated American Bar Association conference participants on the status of EPA’s response to three policy drivers:

• implementing the 2020 Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (Pub. Law No. 116-224) that focused on plastic ...