Vaporizers and Cannabis Industry Sustainability with Mitchell Colbert

Vaporizers and Cannabis Industry Sustainability with Mitchell Colbert

Author: Cannabis Radio January 30, 2025 Duration: 28:12

Mitchell Colbert is a journalist and educator who has written over 200 articles for over a dozen outlets, including High Times, Leafly, and Cannabis Now. He is also a co-author of multiple whitepapers focused on sustainability in the cannabis and hemp industries and The Budtender’s Guide, a companion textbook for the training course he helped create at Oaksterdam University.  Since 2018, Mitchell has lobbied around the United States to legalize the recycling of cannabis waste, specifically vape waste. He is currently a member of the SB 54 Working Group in California, representing the cannabis and hemp industries in implementing a first-in-the-nation plastic packaging EPR, or Extended Producer Responsibility

law. The ASTM International published Mitchell’s novel study on cannabis consumer packaging waste last year, offering a first look at the types and volume of consumer waste being created.



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