After several years of intense regulatory debate, California’s landmark SB 54 regulations are now in place. The rules are ...

Circular Action Alliance (CAA), the producer responsibility organization (PRO) approved to implement extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws for paper and packaging in California and Colorado, ...

An overflowing trash can with disposable packaging in Berlin. You’re a producer and you put a product on the shelves. Do you make sure it’s recyclable? You do if you live in a state, province or ...

Following a collaborative review process, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has approved the program plan submitted by Circular Action Alliance (CAA), making CAA the producer ...

A federal court in Oregon has done something no U.S. court has done before: paused enforcement of a state extended producer responsibility (EPR) law on constitutional grounds—though notably, the pause ...

Extended producer responsibility is a big issue for the plastics industry, with government, environmental groups and even some in the industry looking at programs that would add a fee to materials to ...

Only about 5% of plastic is recycled, and much of the plastic waste we generate ends up in our waterways and oceans Since moving to England a few months ago, I’ve noticed the use of more stringent ...

Members of the Illinois Legislature are considering extended producer responsibility, or EPR, programs in an attempt to enhance the state’s recycling efforts. Unfortunately, two proposed bills, SB ...

As states across the U.S. pass extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws, producers are working to influence how those laws are implemented — aiming to ensure the rules are tailored to specific ...