US: Packaging priority in EPA plan for sustainable materials

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) Plan for 2017 through 2022. The SSM Plan has 3 main strategic priorities, one of which is packaging. The plan aims to increase the quantity and quality of packaging materials recovered from municipal solid waste and develop critically important collection and processing infrastructures.
The SSM Plan is a roadmap for the EPA’s SMM Program, which has 4 objectives. Two of the objectives are to decrease the nation’s waste disposal rate through source reduction, waste prevention & reuse, and recycling and to reduce the environmental impacts of materials (State Recycling Laws Update, 16 November 2015).
Click here for the SMM Plan (569 kB).
With NVC MERGE (Members-only Environmental Regulations Guide) you can stay up-to-date with the environmental requirements for your packaging. MERGE is exclusively for NVC members and there are no costs involved.
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