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US State Laws To Address Packaging Waste Are Cosmetics Industry’s Newest Patchwork Problem

 
• By Eileen Francis

Beauty and personal-care companies building a compliance strategy across states should consider starting with California’s SB-54, as it is the “strictest law in place,” experts agreed at the Independent Beauty Association’s recent Supply Chain & Sustainability Conference. They encouraged companies to assess packaging across SKUs and participate in state-level regulatory development processes.

Cosmetic companies facing a patchwork of looming Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), Post-Consumer Recycled Content (PCR), and other environmental packaging and labeling laws across US states are advised to understand the requirements of each and, where possible, work to help shape policy developments under the regulations.

While dozens of states have introduced EPR proposals, four states have passed laws with “definitive statutory requirements” for personal care...

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