Maine became the first state in the nation to adopt a law requiring companies that create consumer packaging to pay for the costs of recycling.
The Electronics TakeBack Coalition’s 2013 spreadsheet comparing state laws on electronics recycling provides a survey of states with producer responsibility laws and other models.
California’s Global Warming Solutions Act (2006) prompted a scoping plan from the California Air Resources Board that included mandatory commercial recycling. AB 341 reduces landfill methane emissions via upstream diversion.
Describes the evolution of EPR policies in the United States, focusing on the role of states.
A public-private partnership researching, designing, implementing, evaluating, and promoting producer responsibility laws and voluntary programs that solve recycling and waste management issues to create a circular economy.
The Container Recycling Institute’s projects at bottlebill.org and container-recycling.org document active and proposed bottle bills in the US and abroad.
The 2017 report from the Northeast Recycling Council catalogs disposal bans and mandatory recycling laws across all 50 states.