date:Jul 21, 2012
Writing in the report Unfinished Business, which was released yesterday, Conrad MacKerron, senior director of As You Sow, called for a mandatory ERP (extended producer responsibility) system, similar to the programmes already in place in the EU.
In the last two years, momentum has been building for the introduction of EPR for packaging in the US,MacKerron wrote, and said there were plans to introduce legislation in four or five states later this year or early in 2013.
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