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State session shifts costs to producers; Thurston County solid waste managers prepare for multi-year implementation
Summary
Travis Dutton of the Washington State Association of Counties briefed Thurston CountySolid Waste Advisory Committee on 2025 legislative outcomes including an extended-producer-responsibility law for packaging, a right-to-repair bill, organics rules, and funding proposals such as a proposed solid waste collection tax (House Bill 2018).
Travis Dutton, a policy coordinator with the Washington State Association of Counties, told the Thurston County Solid Waste Advisory Committee that the 2025 Legislature passed several bills expected to reshape county solid-waste programs and that many related policy debates will continue into 2026.
Dutton said one of the largest changes is a statewide extended-producer-responsibility (EPR) law for product packaging and printed paper products (referred to in his presentation as the Recycling Renewal Act). Under that law, producers must organize and fund collection and recycling programs; counties will participate in planning and implementation but producers will bear much of the funding responsibility.
The county-level impact will unfold…
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