The Northeast Recycling Council (NERC), a non-profit organization working with the 11 Northeast states on recycling market development issues, is convening a work group to develop model legislation for minimum post-consumer recycled content requirements for glass beverage and food containers and fiberglass insulation.
The goals for developing the model legislation are to:
•Develop markets for post-consumer glass containers.
•Increase the use of post-consumer glass containers in the manufacture of new beverage and food containers and fiberglass insulation.
NERC’s intent for the work group is to bring together (virtually) a broad group of impacted stakeholders from industry and public sectors to achieve a positive outcome. The work group co-chairs are Chris Nelson, supervising environmental analyst of the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection; and Stephen Burm, director of industry and government affairs, Anheuser-Busch with technical assistance from Ed Ferguson, director of sustainability, Anheuser-Busch.
The inaugural work group meeting is scheduled to be held on April 8 at 1:30 p.m. (ET).
Published in the April 2021 Edition