On April 23, 2026, Maine enacted Public Law Chapter 769, An Act to Create a Stewardship Program for Electronic Smoking Devices and Related Products, codified at 38 M.R.S.A. § 1618. The law appears to make Maine the first U.S. state to enact an extended producer responsibility (EPR) law specifically targeting “electronic smoking devices.” Once the
The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) is currently working on a rulemaking to implement SB 1215, which revised the state’s Covered Electronic Waste Recycling Program (E-Waste Recycling Program) to include covered battery-embedded products. These are generally products containing batteries that are “not designed to be easily removed from the product by
A wave of new “Extended Producer Responsibility” or “EPR” programs is beginning to impact companies placing packaged products, including tobacco products, on the market in U.S. states, including California, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, and Oregon.
The five EPR programs for packaging enacted thus far have different facets. However, at their core
