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MassDEP outlines reuse priorities: deconstruction, reusable foodware and microgrants
Summary
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection staff gave an update on the Reduce & Reuse working group, highlighting deconstruction efforts to salvage building materials, voluntary best-practice guidance for reusable foodware under review by public health, and 23 microgrants totaling more than $140,000 awarded this cycle.
Leah Kelleher, of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s municipal waste reduction branch, told the Solid Waste Advisory Committee that MassDEP’s Reduce & Reuse working group is driving work on deconstruction, reusable foodware and textiles as part of the 2030 Solid Waste Master Plan and the agency’s 2021 Reduce and Reuse Action Plan.
Kelleher said the group identified priority materials—single-use packaging, building materials and textiles—and that MassDEP is pursuing actionable steps to expand reuse. “MassDEP established the reduce reuse working group as part of our 2030 solid waste master…
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