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<strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#565656;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">Special Edition of the</span></strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#565656;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt"><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sustainable Materials Management Listserv</span></strong></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#565656;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#565656;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">Webinar: Material Characterization and Economic Impacts of Recycling - 2020 Reports </span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#565656;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<strong><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#565656;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">February 25, 2021 -- 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Eastern time
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#565656;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">In 2018, the United States generated more than 292 million tons of municipal solid waste. Measuring waste generation and how
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#565656;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">Join us for a webinar on the latest information reported in EPA’s most recent Advancing Sustainable Materials Management (SMM):
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#565656;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">The second half of this webinar will cover economic indicators and trend data such as personal consumer expenditures, commodity
values and tipping fees included in the latest Recycling Economic Information report. This report examined the larger economic implications of material reuse and recycling. </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#565656;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;position:relative;top:-8.5pt;mso-text-raise:8.5pt">The purpose of this listserv is to share information about sustainable materials management (SMM), the systemic approach to using
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