{"id":8540,"date":"2025-07-31T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T04:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=8540"},"modified":"2025-07-31T00:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T04:00:49","slug":"wholesaler-distributor-group-takes-legal-action-against-oregons-recycling-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=8540","title":{"rendered":"Wholesaler-Distributor Group Takes Legal Action Against Oregon\u2019s Recycling Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW) has filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025-07-30-NAW-Complaint.pdf\" id=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">lawsuit<\/a> against the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and other parties in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, challenging the constitutionality of Oregon\u2019s Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The act creates an Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) program intended to encourage a circular economy and modernize the state\u2019s recycling program. \u201cUnfortunately, as enacted, the act misses the target and threatens the viability of the wholesale distribution industry nationwide\u2014the cornerstone of America\u2019s supply chain,\u201d NAW claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile NAW supports the goal of a circular economy, the Oregon EPR law, as enacted, is unconstitutional, creates new mandates, inhibits interstate commerce, and fails at its primary goal of encouraging circularity,\u201d said Eric Hoplin, President and CEO of NAW. \u201cRather than encourage sustainability through a uniform and transparent system where compliance burdens are shared across industries, Oregon chose to shift the burden to the parts of the supply chain that have little to no control over decisions to design, reduce, reuse, or recycle a product.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NAW\u2019s lawsuit alleges that, with this law, Oregon unconstitutionally:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Delegates control over the EPR program\u2014including the setting of fees that wholesaler-distributors must pay\u2014to a private, third-party group (the Circular Action Alliance (CAA)), with a financial interest in the program, without clear rules or oversight.<\/li>\n<li>Unfairly targets out-of-state producers, disrupts national markets, and tries to control business outside of Oregon\u2014violating the U.S. Constitution\u2019s limits on state regulation of interstate commerce.<\/li>\n<li>Mandates that producers sign contracts with a single approved private organization (CAA), giving up their economic freedom and due process rights.<\/li>\n<li>Subjects producers to fees and rules set by CAA without a real chance to object or appeal, or transparency in the process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a 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