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PCPC Working To Ensure State EPR Programs Are ‘Least Onerous As Possible’

 
• By Eileen Francis

The Personal Care Products Council is engaging on state legislation for extended producer responsibility programs, which impose the cost of recycling plastic materials on manufacturers. Emerging bills to prohibit use of the ‘chasing arrows’ recycling symbol on consumer packaging also have the trade group’s attention.

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The Personal Care Products Council’s state-level advocacy in the US is focused largely on a growing number of bills designed to target non-recyclable plastic packaging and establish extended producer responsibility (EPR) programs.

In a 28 September panel at the PCPC Leadership Summit in Washington, the trade association’s executive VP for legal and...

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• By Sarah Karlin-Smith

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• By David Ridley

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