Public Policy
The United Nations plastics treaty will affect the entire plastics industry, not just manufacturers of single-use plastics, according to a panel of experts.
The new United Nations General Assembly session in New York opened with a lot of talk about the plastics treaty and production caps.
California is suing ExxonMobil Corp., alleging the company has misled the public about plastics recycling for decades.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who signed one of the first municipal bag bans in the U.S. as mayor of San Francisco in 2007, signed a new statewide plastic bag ban Sept. 22.
A new industry-backed plastics recycling bill in Congress supports chemical recycling and calls for a national 30 percent recycled content standard in plastic packaging.
California is telling EPS foodservice packaging makers to prove that 25 percent of their products are recycled, or be banned from selling in the state.
The EPA is pushing back implementation of its new PFAS reporting rules. Budgetary cutbacks, it said, are to blame.
Rather than a ban, plastics industry groups had urged the state to include bags within California's new extended producer responsibility system for packaging.
In an Aug. 22 statement, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar said proposed reforms to the Mexican judicial system threatened "the historic commercial relationship" between Mexico and the United States.
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