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Publishers and recyclers clash over removing newspapers from extended producer responsibility law
Summary
A hearing on House Bill 3,780 featured arguments from the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association seeking exclusion from the state's producer-responsibility program and from Circular Action Alliance, which is implementing the program and warned removal would create programmatic and legal issues.
House Bill 3,780 drew a short but pointed hearing in which newspaper publishers asked to be excluded from Oregon’s extended producer responsibility (EPR) program for paper and packaging and program implementers warned that excluding newspapers now would create cost and implementation problems.
Greg Peten, representing the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, asked the committee to remove newspapers from the EPR program adopted under the Recycling Modernization Act.…
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