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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The Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) has issued Excess Soil Reuse Guidance, with individual elements and an over-arching framework that jurisdictions can consider (and perhaps adopt, as published or with local variations) when establishing their own excess soil reuse regimes, and for landowners and consultants to consider when designing and implementing construction and remediation projects that generate excess soil. The remainder of this note summarizes this 51 page guidance document.
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On February 26, the European Union’s (EU’s) European Commission issued its “Omnibus I” proposal to “recalibrate” the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), by reducing reporting requirements and excluding smaller entities. The CSRD was adopted in November 2022 and took effect in January 2023 (I wrote about it HERE), providing reporting requirements that are being phased in during 2024-2028. CSRD superseded and narrowed the EU’s previous Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD; which I discussed HERE). The remainder of this note discusses the proposed changes.
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