All Wrapped Up: Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging, April 2025 - All Wrapped Up is a newsletter that tracks and analyzes key developments in extended producer responsibility laws for packaging. It is a...more
Maryland and Washington have joined the growing list of states enacting extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws for packaging and paper products. These laws shift the cost of recycling these materials from the consumer...more
Maryland and Washington have joined the growing cohort of US jurisdictions that require producers of packaging and paper products to finance – and ultimately improve – the systems for disposing of these “covered materials” in...more
This week Maryland’s Governor Wes Moore signed Senate Bill 901, an Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) law designed to make “producers” of packaged items and paper products financially responsible for the upgrades to state...more
On May 13, 2025, Maryland became the sixth U.S. state to enact an extended producer responsibility (“EPR”) law for packaging with Governor Moore’s approval of SB 901, passed by the Maryland legislature on April 7, 2025....more