EPR Demystified: What You Need to Know to Lead Your Company Through the Next Phase

What are your company’s actual responsibilities as EPR scales in a growing patchwork across states? What role can you play in building the infrastructure, reuse systems, and harmonized standards that make compliance cost-effective?

Extended Producer Responsibility requirements are here, but the fragmented state-by-state rollout makes it hard to know what to prioritize. This roll-your-sleeves-up technical session gets into the hard questions: what EPR programs require from producers, how state-level progress is shaping federal ambition, what infrastructure and reuse systems need to be in place, and how harmonization could change the economic equation. You’ll leave with a clear picture of the EPR landscape, your emerging responsibilities, and practical steps to confidently lead your organization into the next era of producer responsibility.