--- title: Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog | STP | Recyclable description: Recyclable | STP's blog giving insight into audit, compliance and risk issues for EHS, business and accounting. --- [![Specialty Technical Publishers](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/STP-logo-white-orange.png)](http://www.stpub.com/) - [My Account](http://stponline.stpub.com) - 1-800-251-0381 # Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog ## [Maine enacts first US extended producer responsibility law for packaging](https://blog.stpub.com/maine-enacts-first-us-extended-producer-responsibility-law-for-packaging) Posted by [Jon Elliott](https://blog.stpub.com/author/jon-elliott) on Wed, Sep 01, 2021 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/Packaging.jpg) ](https://blog.stpub.com/maine-enacts-first-us-extended-producer-responsibility-law-for-packaging) In recent years, governments around the world have extended solid waste management efforts to support—and in some cases require—recycling and resource recovery efforts to divert more solid wastes from landfills, and to substitute reused materials or raw materials. Increasingly, specialized stewardship programs target particular types of hazardous wastes – used oils, spent batteries, etc. – the national advocacy group Product Stewardship Institute identifies more than 120 such programs spread among 34 US states (I introduced these efforts [HERE](https://blog.stpub.com/proliferating-product-stewardship-programs-facilitate-recycling)). Maine already has a number of these programs. [Read More](https://blog.stpub.com/maine-enacts-first-us-extended-producer-responsibility-law-for-packaging) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.stpub.com/maine-enacts-first-us-extended-producer-responsibility-law-for-packaging#comments-listing) Tags: [Environment](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environment), [environmental law](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environmental-law), [Maine](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/maine), [Recyclable](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/recyclable), [Packaging](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/packaging) ## [Proliferating product stewardship programs facilitate recycling](https://blog.stpub.com/proliferating-product-stewardship-programs-facilitate-recycling) Posted by [Jon Elliott](https://blog.stpub.com/author/jon-elliott) on Wed, Aug 18, 2021 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/layout-sorting-waste-recycling.png) ](https://blog.stpub.com/proliferating-product-stewardship-programs-facilitate-recycling) Solid waste management has come a long way since enactment of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) of 1965 to address the national “landfill crisis.” The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) applies SWDA authority to adopt landfill standards, which are administered by state and local governments. EPA also empowers these state and local governments to do more, not just through additional disposal standards, but through expanded requirements for recycling and resource recovery efforts designed to keep more solid wastes out of landfills. In addition, extended management programs impose “product stewardship” and “extended producer responsibility” on manufacturers. This note discusses these introduces these ideas, and summarizes the extent of state programs that apply them. 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