American Chemistry Council

Stop the Packaging and Recycling Restrictions: Protect California Consumers and Innovation

California lawmakers are considering new legislation that threatens to raise costs for everyday consumers, open the floodgates to costly litigation, and stifle the very technologies needed to keep waste out of landfills. Businesses across California are already investing millions of dollars to meet strict environmental requirements and cut packaging waste. This proposed legislation adds an unnecessary layer of red tape that harms our economy without delivering real environmental progress.

Adding new regulatory burdens onto supply chains will ultimately drive up the cost of everyday products that California families rely on at a time when household budgets are already stretched thin. Furthermore, enforcing these complex mandates needlessly inflates state government overhead, increasing implementation costs funded directly by taxpayer dollars.

Rather than helping the environment, these restrictive packaging rules invite costly litigation over complex technical requirements that benefit trial lawyers instead of consumers or local communities. Most importantly, California should be encouraging cutting-edge manufacturing solutions and recycling technologies that keep materials out of landfills, not creating new barriers that disincentivize long-term private investment in green innovation.

California needs policies that support technological solutions and economic stability, not counterproductive regulations that penalize progress. Please sign this petition today to demand that your State Senator protects working families, safeguards local innovation, and votes NO on these harmful recycling restrictions.

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