Colorado's producer responsibility organizations move to implement the state's extended producer responsibility law.

The new law's cartons and film targets could add 100,000 tons of plastic contamination to California's paper exports annually, a panelist said during a recent panel.

With the California legislature adjourned, packaging, food-waste and EPR advocates are watching a single date, Sept. 30, to see which of their priorities become law.

The Circular Action Alliance (CAA) has had a relatively short, but very impactful, history as it takes a key role in EPR programs in several states.

Reusable cup and foodware programs are expanding across US venues, arenas and festivals, but the systems driving them look little like their European counterparts.

California's vape ban was written to close the exact loophole that let disposable devices survive a ban in the UK.

Flexible film, generating 550,000 tons/year of waste, has end markets for only about 10% of it, panelists said at a CRRA conference roundtable.

California's list of SB 54 responsible end markets won't exist until four days before the state's Jan. 1 compliance deadline, and CAA is warning jurisdictions not to rush their exemption filings in the meantime.

Of California's 56 SB 54-covered packaging categories, Alameda County jurisdictions collect fewer than a third of them uniformly, and the clock on compliance is running out.

Editor's note: Policy for batteries and electronics is among the sessions at the 2026 E-Scrap Conference, Oct. 26-28 in New Orleans. Register today! A bill overhauling California's battery stewardship law has cleared the Legislature and now awaits Gov. Gavin Newsom's signature. As Resource Recycling reported last week, SB 501, authored by Sen. Benjamin Allen (D-Santa Monica), passed the Assembly 62-14...