The time has long passed when extended producer responsibility or EPR was considered more of a European concept. Although EPR is still a crucial element in the EU’s response to climate change, the concept is also gaining traction in the U.S., affecting package printers and their customers.
Maine passed EPR legislation earlier this year. The Stewardship Program for Packaging effectively increased the cost of paper, ink and other supplies to the printing industry. Oregon followed suit by passing The Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act.
To help the industry better understand EPR and its impacts on printing businesses and their customers, PRINTING United will air a special edition of Ask the Experts on November 17, 2021. The webinar will provide a deep dive on EPR programs designed to shift the burden of waste recycling from states and municipalities to the manufacturer or producer by imposing a tax or fee on printed paper and packaging to pay for the collection and recycling of these materials. Attendees will learn how EPR impacts their customers, businesses, and what steps they can take to help their customers.
Webinar registration is open to PRINTING United members and nonmembers
As editor-in-chief of Packaging Impressions — the leading publication and online content provider for the printed packaging markets — Linda Casey leverages her experience in the packaging, branding, marketing, and printing industry to deliver content that label and package printers can use to improve their businesses and operations.
Prior to her role at Packaging Impressions, Casey was editor-in-chief of BXP: Brand Experience magazine, which celebrated brand design as a strategic business competence. Her body of work includes deep explorations into a range of branding, business, packaging, and printing topics.
Casey’s other passion, communications, has landed her on the staffs of a multitude of print publications, including Package Design, Converting, Packaging Digest, Instant & Small Commercial Printer, High Volume Printing, BXP: Brand Experience magazine, and more. Casey started her career more than three decades ago as news director for WJAM, a youth-oriented music-and-news counterpart to WGCI and part of the Chicago-based station’s AM band presence.