ATSM – Article: Raising the Volume: How Regulations and Consumer Market Trends Have Increased the Volume of Cannabis Packaging Waste in California

Abstract The early cannabis legalization movement was linked to the environmental movement, and although legalization advocates envisioned an environmentally friendly cannabis industry, regulations and market trends complicated matters. A seismic event for cannabis waste was the repurposing of electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) technology as cannabis “vape pens,” which are more accurately referred to as […]