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Extensive public comment on Packaging Product Stewardship Act as advocates and industry clash over scope, exemptions and advanced recycling
Summary
The committee held a long hearing on a Packaging Product Stewardship Act that would create an EPR system with a 50% source-reduction target for single-use plastics and toxic packaging bans; advocates urged tighter exemptions and exclusion of advanced recycling, while industry urged flexibility and business-to-business exemptions. Debate will continue at the committee's next meeting (Feb. 10).
The Packaging Product Stewardship Act (referred to in testimony as the Packaging Product Stewardship/Producer Responsibility Act) was the committee's main item of the day and generated the most extensive and divided testimony.
Advocates including Judith Enk (Beyond Plastics, SEG 1576), Taylor McFarland (Sierra Club, SEG 2391) and representatives of environmental-justice groups urged a strong 50% source-reduction requirement for single-use…
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