{"id":11178,"date":"2026-01-15T12:27:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=11178"},"modified":"2026-01-15T12:27:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:27:45","slug":"californias-groundbreaking-epr-style-law-continues-to-face-setbacks-in-implementation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=11178","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s Groundbreaking EPR-Style Law Continues To Face Setbacks In Implementation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The road towards Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in California has been a bumpy one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also known as SB 54, California\u2019s EPR-style law is an ambitious attempt to reduce plastic pollution through frameworks that plastic producers must operate under, including specific reduction targets for different types of materials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.calrecycle.ca.gov\/Docs\/Web\/130194\">By 2032<\/a>, single-use plastic packaging and food serving ware must be reduced by 25%, 65% must be recycled, and all single-use plastic packaging and food service ware must be either recyclable or eligible for compostable labeling.<\/p>\n<p><button id=\"expand-paywall-button\" class=\"expand-paywall-button\">Subscribe to Read More<\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/californias-groundbreaking-epr-style-law-continues-to-face-setbacks-in-implementation\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The road towards Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in California has been a bumpy one.\u00a0 Also known as SB 54, California\u2019s EPR-style law is an ambitious attempt to reduce plastic pollution through frameworks that plastic producers must operate under, including specific reduction targets for different types of materials. By 2032, single-use plastic packaging and food serving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[1897,2836,1474],"class_list":["post-11178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news","tag-california","tag-calrecycle","tag-epr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}