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California proposes regulations for phase-out of non-recyclable single-use plastics

Posted by Jon Elliott on Fri, Jul 25, 2025

The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) has published a revised set of proposed regulations to implement 2022’s Senate Bill (SB) 54, the “Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act.” (I wrote about the legislation HERE). The Act phases in a ban on non-recyclable single-use plastics by 2032, and requires that threshold proportions of single-use items sold as “recyclable” will actually be recycled. Its implementation will make use of “extended producer responsibility” (EPR) mechanism similar to those used in California and elsewhere for other enhanced recycling programs (I’ve written about these before, most recently HERE). The remainder of this note discusses the proposed regulations and SB 54’s provisions. 

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