USA – CALIFORNIA Trends and Developments Contributed by: Eoghan Gallagher and Catherine Johnson, Environmental General Counsel
SB 502, and CARB’s phased VOC limits ensures con- tinued momentum toward hazard elimination and full- spectrum disclosure. For companies operating across US and European markets, aligning California and EU compliance strat- egies offers both efficiency and risk mitigation. The underlying regulatory philosophy – ie, prevention, transparency and circularity, is now shared across both systems. California’s trajectory toward 2030 and beyond confirms that product-level sustainability is no longer aspirational policy but an enforceable legal standard, firmly establishing California as the bridge between US and EU chemical-safety regimes.
California’s EPR packaging programme will likely become the most comprehensive and largest EPR packaging programme in the United States, promot- ing a shift to recyclable packaging and reduction of plastic packaging, albeit possibly with some signifi- cant adjustments to the programme over time.
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