Public Comments for: HB316 - Virginia Recycling Development Center; established, report.
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Last Name: Bowman Locality: Alexandria

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Last Name: Felton Organization: AMERIPEN Locality: Springfield

Comments Document

AMERIPEN – the American Institute for Packaging and the Environment – appreciates the opportunity to submit the attached written testimony testimony on House Bill 316 (Bulova) that would establish the Virginia Recycling Development Center for the purposes of furthering the development of markets and processing for recycled commodities and products within the Commonwealth of Virginia. AMERIPEN supports policies that improve recycling, consumer education and move materials into circularity. This includes government support for the development, implementation, and maintenance of robust state recycling market development centers. We therefore fully support HB 316 as drafted and urge this sub-committee to support its passage.

Last Name: Peer Organization: American Chemistry Council Locality: Washington, DC

Comments Document

The American Chemistry Council (ACC), acting on behalf of its Plastics Division, appreciates the opportunity to submit these comments in support of H. 316 that would establish the Virginia Recycling Development Center (Center). ACC and our members are deeply committed to creating a more circular economy for plastics and helping prevent used plastic in the environment. That is why ACC and our Plastics Division members were among the first to establish ambitious, forward-thinking goals that all plastic packaging in the United States is reused, recycled, or recovered by 2040 and that all U.S. plastic packaging is recyclable or recoverable by 2030. Achieving these goals will require industry, manufacturers, brands and retailers, recyclers, and waste haulers, as well as citizens, communities, non-profits, academics, and federal, state, and local governments, to come together to support policies and programs to increase the supply of and demand for recycled materials and create the circular economy we all want. Under this legislation, the Center would focus on increasing end markets for recycled content through applied research and development, marketing, and policy analysis. The Center would be the Commonwealth’s focal point for producers, recovery facilities, packaging manufacturers, retailers, local governments, environmental organizations, higher education, and in-state agencies. This proposal acknowledges that recycling is not just an activity designed to improve the environment, but also a part of the economic system. The Center’s activities aim to enhance the supply of material so that it is of sufficient quality and quantity to be of value to end markets and increase the demand for the material and goods made from recycled content. These important features of the Center will help Virginia transition from a linear economy to a circular economy. Again, ACC urges the committee to support this legislation. Thank you for this opportunity to provide information to the committee.

Last Name: Caywood Locality: Virginia Beach

Ever since the City of Chesapeake ended curbside recycling, as a Virginia Beach resident, I feared we were next. Therefore, I've been researching the issue and it is apparent that lack of markets is a big factor in the rising cost of curbside recycling. I support HB316 as a step toward developing markets for materials with post-consumer content. Please create the Virginia Recycling Development Center and the Recycling Market Development Fund so we can move forward on the Governor's Executive Order #17. I will eagerly await the report of the Virginia Recycling Development Center Advisory Committee.

Last Name: Avril Garland Organization: Friends of Accotink Creek Locality: Fairfax County

Friends of Accotink Creek supports HB 320. Allowing volunteers apply best practices for controlling invasive vines (painting herbicide on freshly cut stumps/roots) will allow them to do the job properly. Just cutting the vines is a waste of time. Uprooting vines on a regular basis risks serious back injury to volunteers. Some infestations like lesser celandine and ailanthus trees can ONLY be controlled by herbicides. Virginia hasn't the funds to pay herbicide crews to treat all its invasive-infested areas. The slack will have to picked up by volunteers.

Last Name: Clarke Locality: Richmond, Virginia

HB47 Please support this bill. Invasive plants should not be available for sale in Virginia nurseries. Our state government has estimated that invasive plants are costing Virginia's economy upwards of $1 billion per year. I walk around our neighborhood clipping English Ivy off of trees as these invasive vines slowly kill trees. Much of the general public, landscapers and nurseries are ignorant about the cost of invasive plants. They spread and over take our landscape destroying habitat and food for our birds, pollinators and other wildlife. HB320 Please support this bill which would allow the many volunteers that are tackling the invasives problem to do an effective job in eliminating them once and for all by using herbicides. HB316 Please support this bill so we can move to a circular economy. We need a recycling vision and facilities so that Virginians can keep plastic out of the ocean, re-use glass, paper and aluminum. Business opportunities exist at the local levels. Food waste and compostable packaging need a digester. Plastics can be recycled into toys and other consumer products. There should be no single use products that pollute our land and our oceans. Without commitment this won't happen. HB245 Please support this bill and let's see what chemical companies are dumping into our environment. PFAs are dangerous and are accumulating in all of our bodies. They are everywhere. We need to stop and protect ourselves and our children. The toxic chemicals surround us and we allow the chemical companies to dupe us into thinking that they are safe.

Last Name: Mayhew Locality: Fairfax

I support HB316 because recycling will only be effective if there is a profitable use for the materials collected. Fairfax County has developed a use for glass, which would otherwise not be cost-effective to collect. The Virginia TREX factory uses recycled plastic to make its product, thus encouraging recycling plastic bags and bottles. These examples show that recycling can be cost-effective. The current low price of natural gas - the source material for plastic - has made recycling plastic unprofitable. More local uses for recyclable materials that do not involve large shipping costs will help balance those costs. Virginia should lead in removing recyclable waste from the environment by developing more new local cost-effective uses.

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