Welcome to the October edition of Nutter’s Environment & Energy Insights, a monthly update of current trends in environment and energy law. This month we cover:
- EPR laws, including how they can shift the cost of single-use products, updates on the states drafting their implementation regulations, and what to do if your company is subject to EPR regulations.
Get Ready for State Extended Producer Responsibility Recycling Laws
For this month’s Insights, we are taking another single-issue deep dive, this time focusing on state extended producer responsibility (“EPR”) laws. Earlier this year, Minnesota became the fifth state to enact an EPR law aimed at curbing single-use products and assigning the costs of recycling those products on producers. In doing so, it joins California, Colorado, Maine, and Oregon in enacting EPR laws. Below we summarize what EPR laws are, what materials are covered, who are considered producers of those products, and what a producer’s obligations will be.
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