California Packaging EPR Reporting Deadline Approaching – Worldwide Sleep Merchandise Affiliation
Round Motion Alliance (CAA), the Producer Accountability Group (PRO) implementing California’s Prolonged Producer Accountability (EPR) regulation (CA SB 54) for paper and packaging has set a November 15, 2025, deadline for voluntary preliminary producer experiences. Producers are being requested to report their 2023 packaging knowledge. CAA is requesting the information to be used in creating its producer accountability plan that can be submitted to California’s Division of Assets Recycling and Restoration (CalRecycle).
Notably, the November 15 deadline isn’t a statutory or regulatory deadline beneath SB 54. As such, CalRecycle considers it to be voluntary. The information can be a baseline for future source-reduction targets required by SB 54 and can inform CAA’s producer price estimates. Producers is not going to be required to pay charges till 2027.
CalRecyle continues to be finalizing the rules for SB 54. Earlier this 12 months, Governor Newsom rejected CalRecycle’s preliminary draft rules, citing considerations that the proposed guidelines would impose extreme prices on companies and shoppers. CalRecycle closed the general public remark interval for its revised draft rules on October 7, 2025.
California is the third U.S. state with a packaging reporting deadline in 2025. Preliminary producer experiences beneath Oregon’s paper and packaging EPR regulation had been due March 31, 2025, whereas preliminary experiences beneath Colorado’s paper and packaging EPR regulation had been due July 31, 2025. For his or her compliance wants, ISPA encourages its members to go to the producer useful resource middle on CAA’s web site. Amongst different sources, CAA has produced particular packaging EPR steering paperwork for Colorado and Oregon, and California. Please attain out to ISPA’s Authorities Affairs crew (Alison Keane and Marty Salamone) you probably have any questions.
