While California’s new SB 54 and New York’s stalled EPR legislation have dominated packaging headlines, packaging EPR laws are expanding elsewhere across the US, with seven states now adopting laws that shift the cost of waste management to producers.Maine became the first state in the country to adopt EPR for paper and packaging waste, its Stewardship Program for Packaging, in 2021, followed by the Oregon legislature, which also passed the Recycling Modernization Act (Senate Bill 582) during the 2021 legislative session.Read More
US packaging EPR landscape expands as states move beyond California’s SB 54
