Steve Toloken
Assistant Managing Editor at Plastics News
Journalist @ Plastics News. Environment, recycling, politics, trade. Virginia, via Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Chicago, briefly Texas, & Wisconsin (Go Badgers!)
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3 days ago |
plasticsnews.com | Steve Toloken
A conservative legal group has launched a shareholder campaign pushing Walmart Inc. and Colgate-Palmolive Co. to take what it calls a "more objective" look at the costs and benefits of plastics packaging.
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4 days ago |
plasticsnews.com | Steve Toloken
An unexpected Trump administration focus on health concerns about chemicals in plastics and on microplastics, and bipartisan support for a bottle bill in Texas, was the focus of this month’s Plastics in Politics Live. Recording below. Both developments are not what you might expect from Republican-led governments in Washington and Austin, but they show how in some cases, plastics policy issues are moving in some untraditional ways, said Steve Toloken, assistant managing editor.
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1 week ago |
plasticsnews.com | Steve Toloken
Pipe maker Advanced Drainage Systems Inc. is buying Illinois-based River Valley Pipe LLC to expand in the stormwater and agriculture markets in the Midwest. Terms were not disclosed but publicly traded ADS said buying Lacon, Ill.-based River Valley would add two corrugated plastic pipe plants, in Illinois and Iowa, to its footprint of more than 60 manufacturing plants and 35 distribution centers.
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1 week ago |
plasticsnews.com | Steve Toloken
It's been decades since any U.S. state passed a new bottle bill, but some see opportunity in a very unlikely spot, Texas, where a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers has gained traction with a plan backed by some plastics and packaging groups. An effort led by Republican state House lawmakers cleared a key legislative hurdle May 2, passing out of the environment committee on a bipartisan 6-0 vote.
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1 week ago |
rubbernews.com | Steve Toloken
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a reorganization it says is aimed at reducing its backlog in approving new chemicals, while environmentalists are criticizing steep cuts in overall EPA spending that they say will "tear down" the agency.
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Is there a middle ground to an effective plastics treaty? A US diplomat tells a plastics audience there is & the United States wants to take it. But others see that as an alliance with petrostates. https://t.co/FJTkiRwwv2 via @plasticsnews
Developments in the messy lawsuits over the firing of former Plastics Industry Association CEO Tony Radoszewski. Judge tosses most complaints & urges both to settle what's left, saying neither side is "looking good." https://t.co/ySdbAcIWMw via @plasticsnews
