{"id":347,"date":"2026-05-13T20:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/californiamovingreport.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/californias-new-plastic-recycling-rules-spark-fights-from-all-sides\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:00:44","slug":"californias-new-plastic-recycling-rules-spark-fights-from-all-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/californiamovingreport.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/californias-new-plastic-recycling-rules-spark-fights-from-all-sides\/","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s new plastic recycling rules spark fights from all sides"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<article>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>IN SUMMARY<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Under new rules, plastic producers have to cut single use plastic, increase recycling rates and pay $5 billion to remedy harms from plastic pollution.  <\/li>\n<li>Plastic producers have until June to come up with a plan for how they\u2019re meeting state mandates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>California just gave plastic producers until 2032 to make all their packaging recyclable or compostable \u2014 the most ambitious deadline in the country. Advocates say it doesn\u2019t go far enough. Producers say it goes too far. At least one of them is threatening to sue.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/californiamovingreport.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/money-for-clean-drinking-water-threatened-by-newsom-administrations-climate-overhaul\/\">Money for clean drinking water threatened by Newsom administration\u2019s climate overhaul<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sweeping regulations, finalized at the start of the month, put producers in a bind that has no obvious solution. Plastic clamshell containers, for instance, protect berries from being crushed and keep them fresher, longer until they reach a refrigerator. Plastic producers say there\u2019s simply no substitute \u2014 yet under the new rules, they\u2019ll have to find one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last week, two environmental groups \u2014 the Natural Resources Defense Council and Californians Against Waste \u2014 said they plan to take California to court. Their argument: the state\u2019s rules actually break the law by allowing recycling methods that create a lot of toxic waste, and by letting some plastics slip through the rules entirely. On the other side, plastic manufacturers say the rules go too far and will make products more expensive for shoppers.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ben Allen, a Democrat from coastal Los Angeles County who authored the plastic waste law, said the program still \u201cmassively moves the needle on this really major problem\u201d \u2014 even if the process was messy. \u201cThis was the product of a compromise, and it was not perfect, and everybody walked away from the table, you know, unhappy about various aspects,\u201d Allen said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalifornia is the United States, but 30 years in the future,\u201d said Joe \u00c1rvai,\u00a0 director of the University of Southern California\u2019s Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies. \u201cWhat\u2019s happening now is emblematic of trends that we are seeing worldwide \u2026 and the U.S. needs to adapt in the way that those countries are adapting in order to remain globally competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Less plastic, more recycling\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>For decades, the burden of reducing, reusing and recycling plastic waste has fallen on consumers. Once a consumer buys a product, they decide what happens to it \u2014 whether it ends up in the garbage can or the recycling blue bin \u2014 and their tax dollars fund recycling systems we have today.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, California\u2019s landmark Senate Bill 54, the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, shifted that responsibility to businesses. The regulations outline what materials are covered by the law and who counts as a \u201cproducer\u201d of plastic waste.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new regulations are a huge milestone, said Anja Brandon, director of U.S. plastics policy for the Ocean Conservancy. \u201cThere\u2019s plenty more steps on this journey, but I\u2019m just really excited that we are going to start making real progress,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The law applies to plastic food service ware and almost all single-use packaging \u2014 from the plastic wrap around large pallets of products shipped to retailers to a tube of toothpaste and the cardboard box around it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor Newsom was clear when he asked CalRecycle to restart these regulations that they should work to minimize costs for small businesses and families \u2014 while ensuring California\u2019s bold recycling law can achieve the critical goal of cutting plastic pollution,\u201d said Anthony Martinez, a spokesperson for the governor. \u201cThat\u2019s exactly what these draft regulations do.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CalRecycle submitted that draft to the Office of Administrative Law in August 2025, but withdrew it to make changes that narrowed that exclusion. Regulators ultimately excluded only plastic that federal law requires for food safety \u2014 walking back a broader carve-out that advocates said would have gutted the law.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Advocates gear up to sue\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Not all plastics follow the same rules \u2014 and advocates object to the state\u2019s two-track system.<\/p>\n<p>Some materials with unique technical challenges can apply for exemptions, but must meet specific criteria to qualify.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Others, like plastic that federal law requires for food safety, escape the rules entirely once producers complete an application to CalRecycle \u2014 no timeline, no obligations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn practice, this allows exclusions to remain in effect \u2026even for notices that ultimately fail \u2014 creating strong incentives to submit weak or legally unsupported claims simply to delay (and effectively filibuster) compliance,\u201d wrote Tony Hackett, a policy associate for Californians Against Waste in a public comment letter to the department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Advocates raise a second concern: the regulations allow certain waste polluting technologies \u2014 ones the law specifically excluded because they generate significant quantities of hazardous waste \u2014 to count as recycling, as long as they have a hazardous waste permit.<\/p>\n<p>These technologies include chemical recycling processes that the oil industry has long promoted as a solution to plastic pollution \u2014 a claim California\u2019s attorney general says is deliberately misleading. Rob Bonta has sued ExxonMobil alleging the company misled the public about recycling\u2019s potential to address the plastic crisis.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese regulations ignore explicit limits on recycling technologies and create permanent escape hatches the law never authorized,\u201d said Nick Lapis, director of advocacy for Californians Against Waste, in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rhonalyn Cabello, a CalRecycle spokesperson, said the agency does not comment on pending or potential litigation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/californiamovingreport.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/live-nation-is-supporting-two-california-bills-to-lower-prices-can-fans-trust-it-2\/\">Live Nation is supporting two California bills to lower prices. Can fans trust it?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Allen agreed the regulations fall short.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe feel that the regulations as presented don\u2019t maintain some of the core agreements that were made in the passage of the bill,\u201d he said. When there\u2019s too many exclusions, he said, companies are \u201cbasically forcing everybody else to pay and getting away scot free.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Set up to fail?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Businesses claim they want to reduce plastic waste but feel trapped by conflicting state regulations and a lack of viable packaging alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>The tension starts with labeling. The state\u2019s accurate recycling labels law, Senate Bill 343, prohibits businesses from using the chasing arrows symbol to indicate recyclability unless certain criteria are met. Advocates say the restriction is necessary to avoid confusion. But businesses say it means consumers are less likely to recycle products that could be recyclable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we lose the right to use (recycling labels on) dairy cartons, our members are going to have to expand their plastic use, because that is the only other packaging type that can take a shelf stable product,\u201d said Katie Davey, executive director of the Dairy Institute of California.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As investments from producers flow to cities and counties under the law, Cabello said, more materials may eventually meet the labeling criteria.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Beyond labeling, businesses say workable alternatives to plastic simply don\u2019t exist yet \u2014 and that getting there will be costly. Investments needed to meet the law\u2019s first goal alone \u2014 a 25% reduction in single-use plastic by 2032 \u2014 could cost up to $15.4 billion, according to CalRecycle estimates.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Kelly, the chief executive of Emerald Packaging, sells film plastic packaging to farmers, who use the plastic to bag items like salads and baby carrots. Paper packaging that could replicate plastic\u2019s ability to regulate oxygen and carbon dioxide levels \u2014 keeping produce fresh \u2014 is still in early development, he said, and mass production is decades away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to build tens to hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure to actually produce something at the level that would be needed to replace plastics,\u201d Kelly said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dairy illustrates the same problem. Alternatives to plastic milk packaging include refrigerated gable-top cartons, shelf-stable cartons, and glass. Each comes with tradeoffs. Glass is heavier \u2014 meaning fewer units per shipment \u2014 and clear glass exposes fresh milk to light that can degrade it. Switching packaging lines entirely would cost producers about $40 million for a single mid-size line, according to the Dairy Institute \u2014 a cost they would pass on to consumers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re deeply concerned because we know that food costs are going to increase and products are going to come off the market because there literally is not a packaging solution within the required timeframe,\u201d Davey said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But USC\u2019s Joe \u00c1rvai said producer complaints are really about the pace of change, not whether compliant packaging is possible at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether they like it or not, these changes are coming,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the end, there are going to be players in the industry that are going to be better able to respond, and they will be better indemnified against the shocks than their partners and competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What happens next<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The next major test comes in June, when the Circular Action Alliance must submit its plan to CalRecycle outlining how producers will meet the law\u2019s goals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oregon, which passed a similar law and is also facing an industry legal challenge, offers a possible model. There, grant funding is already flowing to expand reuse andrefill infrastructure \u2014 helping businesses and schools replace single-use plastic products and improve recycling access.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the fact that there\u2019s a lawsuit in Oregon, money is moving out the door,\u201d said the Ocean Conservancy\u2019s Anja Brandon. She said groups like hers will closely watch the June plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll all be waiting with bated breath\u201d to see how producers are interpreting this and what pathways they\u2019re laying out, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, advocates will be watching closely as CalRecycle begins to make decisions about who qualifies for exclusions and exemptions. The Natural Resources Defense Council is waiting for CalRecycle to post additional documents before filing its lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we let this thing get derailed and turned into a Swiss cheese of exemptions and non\u2011compliance, it will really harm our global progress on this issue,\u201d Allen said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/californiamovingreport.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/rideshare-drivers-sue-uber-over-being-kicked-off-app-in-new-challenge-to-california-law-2\/\">Rideshare drivers sue Uber over being kicked off app in new challenge to California law<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><br \/>\n<!-- .entry-footer --><br \/>\n<!-- .author-bio --><br \/>\n<\/article>\n<p><!-- #post-${ID} -->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California set the nation&#8217;s most ambitious plastic recycling deadline. 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