Legal Experts Break Down Packaging EPR Rules

How States Are Remapping the Future of Plastic Packaging

The packaging industry is experiencing a watershed year in 2026. California has begun enforcing unprecedented Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) mandates and is pushing new labeling laws, while many states have tightened recycled content (PCR) mandates, set EPR and PCR reporting deadlines, and/or banned certain packaging materials.

Packaging EPR Laws Are Now Live in Seven States. Here's What CBD Brands Owe.

While the hemp industry has been fixated on the November THC deadline, a second regulatory shift has quietly moved from proposal to enforcement and this one is aimed directly at packaging. Extended Producer Responsibility, or EPR, makes the companies that put packaging into a market financially responsible for collecting and recycling it. Seven US states […]

Legal Experts Break Down Packaging EPR Rules

Two attorneys explained the current landscape of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) packaging laws in seven different states at the Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance (FGIA) Virtual Summer Summit. Sheila Millar and Rachel Bond (Keller & Heckman) shared their presentation, “The Packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Legal Landscape,” providing an overview of current programs and their differences, the challenges being made t…