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Drive to charge packagers for recycling, but industry fights

by Patrick Whittle
| August 1, 2021 12:09 AM

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — States across the U.S. are looking to adopt new recycling regimes that require producers of packaging to pay for its inevitable disposal — but industry is digging in to try to halt the movement.

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