Steve Toloken

California regulators are moving ahead on a plan to look at microplastics exposure from consumer goods like packaging and paints. The head of a state toxics agency has called it a "growing threat" to the environment.

Plastic is the only packaging material type to grow in the European Union in the last 15 years, a new report from the European Commission said.

Acknowledging challenges that many plastics packaging materials will have in meeting environmental requirements in California's EPR law, officials are considering extending some compliance deadlines.

California dairy, wine and strawberry industries want the state to repeal its landmark plastics packaging extended producer responsibility law.

A group of consumer brands and plastics associations are launching an ad campaign to persuade Congress to pass recycled content marketing legislation.

The U.S. International Trade Commission said it will issue final duties on fiberglass door panels imported from China.

Plastics packaging EPR laws get their day in court, as the trial of a much-watched Oregon case gets underway.

A plastics pipe association is warning that non-certified PEX tubing for demanding applications like potable water is being sold in the U.S. and Canada.

A federal court in California has paused enforcement of the state's controversial recyclability labeling law, SB-343, in response to an industry lawsuit.

Court battles over packaging EPR laws are emerging as the biggest plastics policy story, with microplastics and chemical recycling also drawing increased regulatory attention.