After leading the nation in banning plastic bags, California recently enacted sweeping legislation that requires a reduction in the amount of plastic produced and used in the state. The law is the fir ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 54 (S.B. 54) or the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act (the Act) into law. The Act establishes ...

Brands will need to pivot to more recycled or reusable packaging under a new California law passed in June. That has big ...

The new law aims to accomplish several big things at once. Most significantly, it requires a 25 percent reduction of plastics in single-use products in California by 2032—a first in regulatory ...

California's law also gives state government considerable ... putting a 1-cent tax on single-use plastics and banning EPS, among other measures. But both sides would have faced an expensive ...

The law’s text states that it will cut the use of plastic packaging down ... No more,” Newsom said. “California won’t tolerate plastic waste that’s filling our waterways and making ...

Plastic makes up a big chunk of what Americans consume and throw away each day, but that might be changing in California. Last month, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law the most sweeping bill to ...

going much further than existing laws like the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989. SB 54 will require single-use packaging (including metals) to be recyclable or compostable, leading ...

California, like the world, is enduring a seemingly insurmountable plastic pollution crisis. Only 9% of plastics ever get ...