In this midsummer edition of All Wrapped Up, we discuss a blockbuster ending to this year’s state legislative sessions, culminating in the official launch of the first packaging EPR program in U.S. history; the passage of ...more
Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation, also known as EPR laws, is a policy-based approach that holds producers accountable for the entire lifecycle of their products, particularly for take-back, recycling, and final...more
Beginning July 1, 2025, producers of a wide range of packaging and paper materials, as well as products that use such materials, are prohibited from selling or distributing such products in the state of Colorado, unless they...more
Minnesota is now the fifth state—joining Maine, Oregon, Colorado, and California—to pass what are called “extended producer responsibility” laws, in line with a growing trend across the country. In 2024, Minnesota enacted the...more
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) compliance deadlines have arrived in the U.S., with additional deadlines quickly approaching, particularly for Oregon and Colorado, for “producers” of certain packaging, paper products,...more
All Wrapped Up: Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging, April 2025 - All Wrapped Up is a newsletter that tracks and analyzes key developments in extended producer responsibility laws for packaging. It is a...more
Maryland and Washington have joined the growing cohort of US jurisdictions that require producers of packaging and paper products to finance – and ultimately improve – the systems for disposing of these “covered materials” in...more
All Wrapped Up is a newsletter that tracks and analyzes key developments in extended producer responsibility laws for packaging. It is a subscription-based resource for King & Spalding clients who sell or distribute just...more
For the past four years, multiple states have worked to pass laws (called Extended Producer Responsibility laws, or “EPR”) that reallocate the burden of dealing with end-product waste (and related recycling efforts) to the...more
Key Takeaways - What is happening? Packaging waste has received heavy attention from lawmakers in recent years. A growing number of states are adhering to Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and Recycled Content...more
On November 21, 2024, Massachusetts enacted legislation likely to accelerate its adoption of new extended producer responsibility (EPR) legislation. Tucked into a new climate law (find a separate alert on the law here),...more
Four years after the nation’s first extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws set out approaches to making producers financially responsible for managing the disposal of plastics and packaging, 2025 will see...more