Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection has prepared draft regulations for the state’s first-in-the-nation Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Packaging law for review by the Board of Environmental Protection.

According to the Natural Resources Council of Maine’s Vanessa Berry, “In 2021, Maine adopted a first-in-the-nation Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Packaging law to reduce taxpayer costs and improve recycling by encouraging producers to create less wasteful packaging.

Put simply: It’s unfair that Maine taxpayers and communities are on the hook for the wasteful packaging produced by large companies—much of it single-use plastic—that ends up in our waste stream or polluting our environment…”

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