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Recycling Coalition started the CalFFlex Initia- Also in California, manufacturer Oroville Flexible
tive, focusing on curbside film and flexible plas- Packaging announced the launch of Oroflex, a
tic in California, earlier this year. The coalition’s system for client businesses to return plastic
goals include making film plastic products more bags and packaging to be recycled into new
profitable, improving film plastic processing sys- products.
tems and making curbside collection of film re-
cycling more common. “Oroflex is more than a plastics manufacturing
and recycling company, we are partners in en-
According to the coalition website, CalFFlex vironmental stewardship,” Clemens Stockreiter,
hopes to establish a replicable blueprint for col- founder of Oroville parent company Re:Circle,
lecting film and flexible plastics and developing wrote in a press release this week.
end markets by April 2026.
Curbside collection in Canada
The initiative was created in response to the
state’s EPR law, SB 54, which requires producers The district municipality of West Vancouver in
to demonstrate they’re moving toward compli- British Columbia plans to start collecting film
ance in that time frame or face possible penal- plastics curbside this summer, according to a
ties and bans. CalFFlex plans to work alongside district news announcement last month.
California’s Department of Resources, Recycling Recycle BC, West Vancouver’s recycling provid-
and Recovery, and Circular Action Alliance, the er, will collect flexible plastics, like plastic bags
EPR program’s producer responsibility organiza- and packaging, in separate containers once a
tion. month. British Columbia was an early adopter
of many kinds of EPR, packaging included, and
“We’re improving collection, enhancing process-
ing and driving demand for recycled materials,” provinces across Canada have been expanding
the coalition wrote on its website. “Together, we and improving EPR programs in recent years.
can address these challenges, support Califor- Source – Plastics Recycling Update
nia’s progress, and create a more sustainable
future.”
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