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Associations & Federations Certification & Labels Extended Producer Responsibility Joint Venture & Partnerships Strategy
USCC and BPI Release Joint Guidance on Compostable Products and EPR
USCC and BPI Issue Joint Guidance on Compostable Products and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). Formal strategic partnership will guide extensive collaboration between the two organizations -- Will the industry bribe the composters to accept their compostable plastics?
While this represents a renewed partnership, the relationship between BPI and USCC has been there since the beginning. The first compostable certification mark was actually co-branded with BPI and USCC’s logos and names, and was based on identifying standards for compostability that manufacturers of products and composters agreed on. Characterizing EPR as bribery is a fundamental misconception.