"We urgently need a national strategy to build out our country's recycling infrastructure," Rep. Haley Stevens began as she opened an April 30 hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology’s Subcommittee on Research and Technology, adding, "It is our opportunity to seize." 

In its first meeting on recycling in more than a decade, the subcommittee welcomed a panel of witnesses to discuss emerging technologies that have potential to turn a critical challenge—the accumulation of plastic waste in overwhelmed recycling facilities, landfills, and nature—into an environmental and economic opportunity for the United States and other countries. NREL Senior Research Fellow Gregg Beckham was invited to speak on what he and his team believe is a key element of the solution: chemical recycling.

Read more at: www.nrel.gov/news/program/2019/nrel-research-fellow-testifies-plastic-recycling-before-house-subcommittee.html

Come join us for the FIRST Annual Earth Day Fair at Mines!  Volunteers still needed to help run activites and staff zero-waste stations. Contact poole@mines.edu with your availability between 2:30-6:30 p.m. on the 22nd.  

Mines Sustainability is making E-Days a zero waste event! Are you passionate about recycling and limiting food waste or do you need to complete volunteer hours before the end of the semester? Join the Green Team and volunteer to “Trash Talk” at E-Days or Earth Day as we bring in zero-waste stations with the help of Eco-Cycle.  Volunteers needed for time slots on April 12 from 2:30-5pm, April 13^th from 12:00-3pm and April 22 from 3-6pm. Email poole@mines.edu with your availability.  

Colorado Public Radio interviewed the president of Alpine's All Together Recycling Facility in Denver to answer some common recycling questions. Listen to the podcast or read the article HERE.

The 2019 EcoCareers conference is being held ONLINE this week. Get more details and register here.