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The NWPSC recently began tweeting as @StewardshipNW.

On Nov. 5, 2015, e-Stewards and the Basel Action Network (BAN), who manage and certify the e-Stewards Standard, "the cleanest, most globally responsible standard for e-waste recycling," released their decision about cathode ray tube (CRT) glass recycling:

Two stewardship organizations submitted revised stewardship plan proposals to the King County Secure Medicine Return (SMR) program for review: King County MED-Project, LLC was rejected while ReturnMeds, LLC was approved on October 16. ReturnMeds, LLC's approved plan is designated as the standard plan and the deadline to be fully implemented is April 13, 2016.

The state of Vermont approved Call2Recycle as the battery stewardship organization to implement Vermont's primary (single-use) battery recycling program, beginning Jan. 1, 2016.

In September 2015, CalRecycle found Carpet America Recovery Effort's (CARE, the carpet stewardship organization for California's carpet EPR program) 2014 Annual Report "noncompliant because it did not demonstrate continuous and meaningful improvements toward achievement of Program goals." CalRecycle held a public meeting on October 20 to consider CARE's second

The California Assembly Waste Committee held an HHW/EPR (household hazardous waste and extended producer responsibility) hearing in Palo Alto, CA, on Nov. 4, 2015. The full, approximately 3-hour hearing can be seen on the California Product Stewardship Council's YouTube channel.

Nicholas Kristof in the Nov. 29 New York Times wrote about endocrine disrupting chemicals and the state of Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) reform legislation.

The Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is hiring 3 specialists in its Materials Management Section in Portland, OR, serving as senior technical experts in support of Materials Management in Oregon: 2050 Vision and Framework for Action.

The Province of British Columbia recently received the highest rating (A) from EPR Canada's 2015 Report Card, according to Solid Waste & Recycling, for following the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) Canada-wide Action Plan on EPR implementation schedule "

The Mattress Recycling Council’s (MRC) Connecticut stewardship program, Bye Bye Mattress, recycled 20,000 mattresses in their first three months of operation, May–July 2015.