ISPA Submits Feedback on Draft New VA Stable Waste Administration Plan – Worldwide Sleep Merchandise Affiliation
ISPA submitted feedback on Virginia’s draft New Statewide Stable Waste Administration Plan (SWMP), which mentions mattresses. The Virginia Division of Environmental High quality (DEQ) is updating the SWMP for the primary time in 46 years. ISPA’s feedback deal with the SWMP’s part on product stewardship and prolonged producer accountability (EPR).
Particularly, the draft SWMP recommends “increasing EPR in Virginia to embrace a broader vary of supplies, corresponding to packaging, electronics, mattresses, prescribed drugs, and dangerous supplies,” by way of an overarching coverage framework for EPR, together with a number of merchandise quite than enacting product-specific EPR laws. ISPA is usually supportive of the SWMP’s advice to broaden EPR within the Commonwealth to incorporate a program for mattresses, however doesn’t assist the framework strategy to EPR mentioned within the SWMP.
ISPA helps a mattress-specific EPR regulation as all merchandise and the best way they’re collected and managed at end-of-life are completely different. A one-size suits all strategy to EPR doesn’t work. ISPA highlighted our collaboration with Senator Williams Graves and Delegate Laufer to introduce mattress recycling laws through the 2025 Virginia legislative session (VA SB 990/VA HB 1974). ISPA submitted its feedback earlier than HB 86 was launched; nevertheless, our feedback point out ISPA’s assist for statewide mattress EPR laws throughout Virginia’s 2026 Legislative Session.
