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

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

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

State leadership asked MRM to offer more specifics before it will be named Oregon’s PRO in 2027.

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

California's list of SB 54 responsible end markets won't exist until four days before the state's Jan. 1 compliance deadline,...

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

Editor's note: Policy for batteries and electronics is among the sessions at the 2026 E-Scrap Conference, Oct. 26-28 in New...

A federal preemption bill over packaging labels just moved one step closer to reality on Capitol Hill.

After a five-day trial and 71 pages of findings, Judge Michael Simon says the state's packaging EPR law is constitutional.