Press

Press Releases

• CPSC Press Release: California Product Stewardship Council Celebrates First National Policy Supporting Framework for Sustainable Production 7/15/2008
  • Report on Accesses to the press release on PR Newswire web site
  • See individual responses to this press release below in CPSC In the Media
• CPSC Press Release: 600 Million and Counting 2/8/2007
  A media release on the first year anniversary of the Universal Waste hazardous products ban in California and the formation of the California Product Stewardship Council

CPSC In the Media

• A Sorted Affair: Planned Obsolescence — Jane Bogner, Valcore 8/10/2008
• The Emergence of Regional and Local Product Stewardship Programs — John H. Skinner, Ph.D., Solid Waste Association of North America 8/5/2008
• California Product Stewardship Council Celebrates First National Policy Supporting Framework for Sustainable Production — San Francisco Business Times 7/15/2008
• Inside Medicine: 'Green,' recycling don't always mesh — Dr. Michael Wilkes, Sacramento Bee
  6/22/2008
  
  
• How to Recycle Your Bulbs — Jennifer Olney, San Francisco ABC News 5/18/2008
  Coverage of the workshop on fluorescent lamps in Sacramento 4/30/08
  
  Several presenters went on-camera, including CPSC Board Chair Rob D'Arcy, Rex Bell from PG&E, and Jen Dolin from OSRAM-Sylvania, talking about their consideration of aligning with their German parent company to collect and recycle lamps with help from other stakeholders
  
  
• Product Stewardship is a Better Way — Kevin Hendrick, Times Standard 4/8/2008
  
  
• Forming Product Stewardship Councils to Support Extended Producer Responsibility
  — Lois Courchaine, Central Contra Costa Solid Waste Authority (SWANA) Newsletter Nov 2007

CPSC Online

Heidi Sanborn: Pay now, or pay later in a throw away world — Mary Clare Hunt Jun 2008

Product Stewardship in the Media

• It's chemical warfare in Capitol — Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee 7/16/2008