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CAA Provides Deadline Schedule for Brands Affected by EPR

John Hite of the Circular Action Alliance provides a 10,000-foot view of EPR for packaging and CAA, along with important deadlines brands need to know to meet legislation requirements.

John Hite, director, Environmental Policy & Public Affairs at Circular Action Alliance (CAA)
John Hite, director, Environmental Policy & Public Affairs at Circular Action Alliance (CAA)

EPR is a complex and constantly moving target. As a brand, what should you be doing right now to prepare for upcoming regulations? At NPE: The Plastics Show, John Hite, director, Environmental Policy & Public Affairs at Circular Action Alliance (CAA), provided a primer on EPR for Packaging, CAA, and what you need to do to meet upcoming deadlines.

For the uninitiated, under extended producer responsibility (EPR) legislation for packaging, producers of packaging, primarily brand owners, are charged fees based on the type and weight of the packaging they supply into a given market. Those fees are then used to provide funding for the end-of-life management of covered products. Currently California, Colorado, Maine, and Oregon have implemented EPR laws; Maryland has a pre-EPR program.

“EPR requires producers to comply with a statute through what’s called a producer responsibility organization, or a PRO,” Hite explained. “The PRO—you can think of it as a joint compliance organization—has several primary responsibilities looking upstream. The PRO is responsible for working with producers on reporting, helping producers categorize their packaging, and report that to the approved PRO in a given jurisdiction.


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