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After a year of dialogue about what an extended producer responsibility (EPR) bill around plastic packaging and paper might include, nonprofit Product Stewardship Institute (PSI) and industry organization Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) have reached an agreement. They have finetuned an existing PSI document with elements that would be most important to FPA.
“Packaging has a target on its back because there are limited opportunities for getting it recycled, and we thought it was important to have a voice at the table in drafting legislation that would enable a stewardship program to protect the market … and to ensure a program would fund infrastructure to ensure all packaging, including flexible packaging, could get recycled and collected,” says Alison Keane, president and CEO, Flexible Packaging Association.