Akin Gump Team Authors Article for Thomson Reuters Westlaw on Legislative Actions Toward Single-Use Plastics
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Thomson Reuters Westlaw has published the article “The last straw? Recent actions and outlook for single-use plastics,” written by Akin Gump public law and policy partners Jamie Tucker and Dario Frommer, associate Louis Agnello and public policy specialist Christina Barone.
The article, which first appeared as an Akin Gump client alert, looks at what the states and the federal government are doing “to address dramatic changes in the traditional recycling and waste management markets after recent policy changes in China and Southeast Asia that have disrupted those markets on a global scale.” As a result of those changes, the authors write, the United States “is in urgent need of an innovative waste management solution.”
Two approaches have emerged at the state level, the authors write, including acting to reduce or ban single-use plastics and adopting extending producer responsibility laws, which “provide a mechanism for facilitating sustainable funding for recycling by shifting financial and management responsibility from governments and taxpayers to packaging producers and brand owners.” The article then outlines some federal proposals regarding sustainability and recycling.
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