Mar 3, 2026
Packaging EPR Compliance Across State Lines: Why There’s No One-Size-Fits-All Strategy – Update from Bick Law LLP


For manufacturers that sell products in multiple states, the growing patchwork of packaging extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws is quickly becoming a major compliance burden. Several states, including Colorado, California, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Oregon, and Washington now have packaging EPR programs—each with different definitions of producers and covered packaging materials, and each with different registration and reporting requirements. Many states, …