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The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act is being marketed as a bold environmental policy. In reality, it is a compromise bill that would leave industry in charge and would fail to deliver the protections our communities deserve.

We share the goal of holding corporations accountable for the packaging crisis. The problem isn’t the intention; it’s the design. The Packaging Act (A1749/S1464) hands power to the very companies responsible for the waste, creating a system where polluters manage their own regulation.

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At the heart of the bill is a producer-run organization funded and controlled by the same corporations that generate the waste stream. It claims to make polluters pay; instead, it would let them control how........

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