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DLA Piper

EPA's Plastic Pollution Strategy Offers Signal to Industry and Input for State Regulatory Efforts

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently unveiled its National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution (Plastic Pollution Strategy), a comprehensive document that outlines voluntary measures and regulatory...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

California Proposes Significant Changes to Product Packaging Regulations

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What Happened - On Monday, October 14, 2024, the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecyle) opened a public comment period on changes to the previously proposed regulations implementing the...more

EPR Group Consulting Inc.

Producer Fees in State EPR Packaging Programs

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The extended producer responsibility (“EPR”) programs for packaging that are currently unfolding in several states impose two primary obligations on producers of covered materials—reporting data and paying fees to a producer...more

Goldberg Segalla

Could Plastic Recycling Facilities Be Contributing to the Microplastics Pollution Problem?

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Earlier this month, a team of researchers out of the UK, Canada, and New Zealand published a first-of-its-kind study in the peer-reviewed Journal of Hazardous Material Advances, examining the microplastics pollution potential...more

Environmental General Counsel PC

California Plastics Legislation: CalRecycle Workshop on PROs

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On March 29, 2023, the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) held a workshop on Producer Responsibility Organizations (PROs) and forthcoming regulations under the Plastic Pollution Prevention...more

Morgan Lewis

Reduce, Reuse, Regulate: The Current State of Plastic Waste Legislation in the United States

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Three hundred million tons of plastics are produced each year worldwide. Less than 10% of plastic waste in the United States is recycled each year. With projections showing that plastics production is expected to triple over...more

Environmental General Counsel PC

Materials Covered under California's Plastics Legislation

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California’s SB 54, or the Plastic Producer Responsibility Act, represents a substantial expansion of the increasingly popular form of legislation focused on extended producer responsibility (EPR) for plastic recycling. While...more

Nossaman LLP

California Adopts First-in-the-Nation Microplastics Reduction Strategy

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Last week, the Ocean Protection Council adopted California’s Statewide Microplastics Strategy. The strategy is the first of its kind in the nation, focusing on outlining steps to address microplastic pollution, an emerging...more

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