Posted 02/01/2024
by The Aura Team
The Horizon Futures 2023 Round Up Report is your guide to the most recent packaging legislation changes, including EPR, Bottle Bills, plastic regulations, banned materials, mandatory labeling and so much more, across Europe, the USA, Australia & Mexico. It combines key updates from our series of Horizon Futures Reports by state/country in 2023.
With increased focus on climate change, carbon usage, recyclability, re-usability as well as several bans of packaging materials, additives and formats, can you afford NOT to be up to date?
Headline legislative updates include:
- 4 US states now with approved EPR and an increasing amount with proposed EPR legislation
- Huge reform to EU packaging directives due to continue into 2024
- UK EPR drawing ever closer – reporting requirements have already started from Jan 2023
- UK introduced a ban on certain single use plastic items from October 2023
- Ireland welcomed a year of change with amendments to EPR obligations for major producers of packaging
- The Australian fashion industry may face regulation in 2024 if they fail to cut waste through the current voluntary levy
- New obligations imposed on PROs in Slovenia since 2023 under amends to the Environmental Protection Act (EPA)
- Several draft EPR systems are at proposal stage in Mexico at both federal and state level
