Regulation: Page 5

  • Four speakers seated on a stage at the SPC Advance conference in Chicago on Oct. 1, 2024.
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    Paying their fair share: CAA and states detail approach to EPR enforcement

    The new CEO of Circular Action Alliance and state producer responsibility leads shared how they’ll collaborate on compliance and enforcement. A Colorado deadline this week brought a surge of producer registrations.

    By • Oct. 3, 2024
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    Hush-hush: Is greenwashing pushback prompting pivot to ‘greenhushing’?

    Companies must focus on data to back their sustainability claims instead of resorting to silence, or exaggerations, said sources from groups such as the U.S. Plastics Pact, Glass Packaging Institute and McCormick & Co.

    By • Oct. 3, 2024
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    BPI Summit highlights ongoing compostable packaging debate ahead of USDA decision

    World Centric, the California Compost Coalition, Athens Services, Dirt Hugger, A1 Organics, Moonshot Compost and others weighed in with their thoughts about this growing category of packaging.

    By Mary Catherine O'Connor • Oct. 2, 2024
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    Packaging trade shows to watch in 2025

    Mark your calendar: These U.S. conferences and events will cover timely trends in sustainable packaging design, recycling technologies, regional market trends, substrate evolutions, automation and more.

    By Packaging Dive Staff • Updated May 9, 2025
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    California Gov. Newsom signs food date label law, updates PCR reporting rules

    This marks the first state law requiring products to include standardized “best by” and “use by” language in an effort to reduce food waste. Newsom also acted on two microplastics-related bills.

    By • Sept. 30, 2024
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    What’s next for product certification amid concerns about PFAS and toxics in plastic

    Lagging regulation and a potential “toxic treadmill” with recycled content are viewed as just some of today’s pressing challenges. Clean Production Action Executive Director Mark Rossi reflects on two decades of change in the field.

    By • Sept. 30, 2024
  • A person speaks on a stage in front of a green background that says Packaging Recycling Summit.
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    Dan Felton to leave Ameripen, become Flexible Packaging Association’s CEO

    Felton will continue to advocate on behalf of packaging stakeholders, having worked through what he called “seismic shifts to the industry in terms of new laws and regulations” since 2020.

    By • Sept. 24, 2024
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    Lawsuits from California AG and others take aim at ExxonMobil’s chemical recycling claims

    Coordinated lawsuits target the company’s role in pollution and describe the limitations of mechanical and advanced recycling to manage waste. Packaging companies have partnered with ExxonMobil to source recycled plastics.

    By • Sept. 24, 2024
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    California closes reusable plastic carryout bag loophole

    Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 1053, a law that will eliminate plastic bags as an option at store checkouts. Retailers will still be allowed to sell certain recycled paper bags.

    By • Sept. 23, 2024
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    Recycling bill in Congress calls for 30% recycled content in plastic packaging

    Berry Global CEO Kevin Kwilinski said in a statement the bill could “significantly increase use of recycled material in new products.” The legislation would also task EPA with setting certain national plastic recycling standards.

    By Megan Quinn , • Sept. 20, 2024
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    Want to know what packaging EPR will look like in the US? So does everyone else.

    The industry’s perception of EPR has changed the last two years, according to a speaker at the Packaging Recycling Summit. But stakeholders are still seeking answers related to data collection, ecomodulation and more.

    By • Sept. 19, 2024
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    EPA recommends BPI, GreenScreen, other ecolabels in food service ware procurement

    The agency finalized additions to its recommendations this month, including ones related to reusable, certified commercially compostable, and certified recyclable options.

    By • Updated Dec. 11, 2024
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    Keurig Dr Pepper to pay $1.5M to settle charges about K-Cup recyclability

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission says the beverage company omitted from filed documents some important information about testing the curbside recyclability of its K-Cup coffee pods. 

    By • Sept. 10, 2024
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    Packaging updates anticipated in Biden administration’s waning months

    Some of these updates have been a long time coming, including next steps for the Green Guides and the National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution.

    By • Sept. 9, 2024
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    California lawmakers send bills on grocery bags, date labels, microplastics to governor

    Meanwhile, bills that could have restricted PFAS in plastic packaging and updated the state’s packaging EPR law stalled prior to the end of the legislative session.

    By • Sept. 3, 2024
  • Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks into a microphone behind a wooden podium on stage at the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 20, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois
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    Illinois adopts laws eliminating small bottles at hotels, requiring recycling at events

    Hotels will soon be blocked from offering mini shampoos and the like, while large event venues including convention centers will be required to compost and recycle materials like aluminum cans and plastic beverage bottles.

    By • Aug. 26, 2024
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    White House backs reduced plastic production, criteria for chemical and product lists, in UN treaty

    The Biden administration’s new approach, confirmed by Packaging Dive, is a major development ahead of the final negotiating session this fall. That could include discussions about criteria for lists to limit some chemicals and products.

    By • Aug. 16, 2024
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    Circular Action Alliance names its first CEO

    Jeff Fielkow, currently CEO of ID Images, has decades of recycling and packaging experience at Tetra Pak and elsewhere. The producer responsibility organization is ramping up work in Colorado, Oregon and California.

    By Megan Quinn • Aug. 13, 2024
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    EPA finalizes recycled content levels for packaging bearing Safer Choice label

    Despite some industry pushback, the agency opted to reflect packaging sustainability in the voluntary health and environmental safety program. But it offered companies more flexibility on which improvements are accepted.

    By • Aug. 9, 2024
  • Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz walks in a maintenance area of a truck facility
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    How Minnesota’s packaging stakeholders got EPR across the finish line

    Policy and environmental leads told the story of how compromise led to the latest extended producer responsibility for packaging bill passed into law during a Product Stewardship Institute event.

    By • Aug. 8, 2024
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    Canada explores impacts from PFAS in packaging, potential management actions

    The government is accepting comments on an updated report and risk management scope. It’s looking at voluntary actions around product labeling and collaborating with North American trade partners on assessing alternatives.

    By • Aug. 7, 2024
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    What’s next in EPA’s vinyl chloride review

    The process is advancing as expected, but potential impacts to PVC, used in flexible plastic packaging, would still be years away. Industry groups remain engaged, as some environmental groups are still calling for an outright ban.

    By • July 26, 2024
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    Paper, plastic industries react to major Supreme Court decisions

    The American Forest & Paper Association and the Plastics Industry Association shared their thinking after rulings staying EPA’s “Good Neighbor” plan and overturning the longstanding Chevron doctrine.

    By • July 25, 2024
  • U.S. President Joe Biden stands at a podium at the White House with American flags behind him and a blue backdrop that says Historic Climate Action.
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    Biden announces goal to phase out federal procurement of single-use plastics

    The White House released a government-wide strategy and goals a month after the General Services Administration’s final rule encouraging, but not requiring, federal contractors to identify single-use, plastic-free packaging.

    By • July 22, 2024
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    Novolex, USW celebrate duties against paper bag importers

    The U.S. Department of Commerce's anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders apply to China, India and others. This follows the International Trade Commission’s finding that U.S. producers were being "materially injured."

    By • July 19, 2024