Maria Rachal

3 days ago | packagingdive.com | Maria Rachal

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. With days remainingin New York’s legislative session, an extended producer responsibility bill that is unpopular with packaging-related trade groups has again moved forward. The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act, a bill sponsored by Democratic state Sen. Pete Harckham, passed the Senate last week. It was delivered to the Assembly and referred to the Ways and Means Committee.

5 days ago | packagingdive.com | Maria Rachal

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Hawai'i Gov. Josh Green last week signed HB750, which requires the state’s Department of Health to conduct a needs assessment related to recycling, due to the legislature by the end of 2027.

5 days ago | fooddive.com | Maria Rachal

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Several major brands and retailers recently exited the U.S. Plastics Pact, a group created to unite organizations across the plastics value chain around a set of shared 2025 packaging sustainability targets. Walmart, the largest retailer in the U.S., is no longer participating with the U.S. Plastics Pact.

1 week ago | packagingdive.com | Maria Rachal

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Material manufacturers, packaging converters and distributors collectively announced hundreds of planned layoffs during May. Aardvark Straws is closing a plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and relocating production to Wisconsin, the Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly reported. Aardvark was acquired by Oshkosh, Wisconsin-based Hoffmaster Group, a food service ware provider, in 2018.

1 week ago | packagingdive.com | Maria Rachal

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. With a sixth and seventh state recently adopting extended producer responsibility for packaging laws, momentum for packaging policy has been building in 2025. Maryland’s bill was signed into law on May 13. Washington followed suit on May 17. Both have producers eventually reimbursing 90% of recycling costs, similar to Minnesota’s packaging EPR law signed last year.