2019 America Recycles Day Summit

(Program Start at 9:48)
Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler convened EPA’s second Recycling Summit on America Recycles Day to address the major challenges facing the U.S. recycling system. The Summit engaged executives and leaders from across the recycling value chain to build on their success over the last year and commit to continuing to work together through implementation of a national framework to advance recycling in the U.S.

[kikikut]

but the producers of environmentally unsustainable products and energies (e.g. gas) sure have a big responsibility to remedy the environmental damage and other imbalances caused. sure there's consumer DEMAND for the ill crap us consumers became spoiled with, but like a good parent, when you now know better (in so many ways), you know?

like, IF EPA (and others with the money/power) REALLY serious and had appropriate urgency to protect the environment, then they'd put effort into ENFORCEMENT phasing in at retail / point of customer/consumer sale/CRIME (e.g. Walmart) - starting with the most urgent / non-recyclables, to... least urgent / fruits and veggies. Even to just focus on the material flows as opposed to the energy for those flows (e.g. "food miles", "embodied energy").

And other points of enforcement beyond recycling, but also critical in environmental protection are at:
-unsustainable transportation fuel (gas, electric tied to nonrenewable sources)
-unsustainable power plants