FPA Signs Coalition Letter in Opposition to California’s AB 1290

The undersigned organizations, representing a cross section of manufacturers, consumer product companies, agriculture, food producers, restaurants, and others are in opposition to AB 1290. The enactment of SB 54 (Stats. 2022), along with SB 343 (Stats. 2021) has resulted in arguably the most comprehensive and rigorous single use packaging and plastics recycling and waste reduction requirements enacted domestically and internationally. These new laws will require significant resources to implement, both from the regulated community and CalRecycle. Given that SB 54 was signed into law in June 2022 and CalRecycle’s regulatory implementation process has only just begun, additional costs to the state and new packaging mandates on producers as proposed in AB 1290 is unnecessary and counterproductive.