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Colorado mass balance debate underscores industry faultlines

The American Chemistry Council this year voluntarily withdrew a lawsuit in Colorado regarding mass balance allocation methods in the state’s extended producer responsibility for packaging program plan. But the wider debate about what counts as recycled content is far from at rest. 

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the defendant in the lawsuit, “will have further discussions this summer” about the excluded methodologies, according to an emailed statement, and in the interim the plan will continue being implemented.

Colorado mass balance debate underscores industry faultlines | Packaging Dive

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