{"id":17544,"date":"2021-03-19T09:41:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T13:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/prominent-lawyer-analyzes-extended-producer-responsibility-laws-in-california\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T18:28:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T18:28:40","slug":"prominent-lawyer-analyzes-extended-producer-responsibility-laws-in-california","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/article\/composting-for-community\/prominent-lawyer-analyzes-extended-producer-responsibility-laws-in-california","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Lawyer Analyzes Extended Producer Responsibility Laws in California"},"template":"","class_list":["post-17544","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-article","initiatives-composting-for-community","topics-extended-producer-responsibility","authors-neil-seldman"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":2298,"background_color":"","article_type":[134],"initiative":15,"display_event_fields":false,"start_date":null,"end_date":null,"start_time":null,"end_time":null,"time_zone":"America\/New_York","virtual_event":false,"location":"","topics":[75],"impact_areas":false,"abstract":"<p>John Moore, based in Oakland, CA., is a board certified litigator who has practiced law for forty years and has been very active in solid waste and recycling law. In this article, Moore discusses and critiques Extended Producer Responsibility laws in California.&hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/prominent-lawyer-analyzes-extended-producer-responsibility-laws-in-california\/\" aria-label=\"Prominent Lawyer Analyzes Extended Producer Responsibility Laws in California\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","authors_tax":[605]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p>John Moore, based in Oakland, CA., is a board certified litigator who has practiced law for forty years and who has won all but four cases that went to trial. Moore has served as general legal and trial counsel to three public agencies and numerous private firms, including a 65-store retail chain with enough market clout to implicate antitrust law consideration. He has participated in hundreds of corporate board meetings and government closed sessions. Moore has been very active in solid waste and recycling law and has represented recycling businesses and advised non-profit recycling organizations. In the following article, Moore discusses and critiques Extended Producer Responsibility laws in California.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legally Speaking, EPR Is Not The Right Direction For California&#8217;s Troubled Container Deposit Recycling System<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;\">By John Moore, Esq.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have observed violations of California\u2019s Sunshine or Open Meeting laws<a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/0BABB0D1-07DE-49A1-81BF-691A5E1BD288#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> <strong>in <\/strong>the biggest as well as the smallest jurisdictions in the Bay Area. I have dealt with state and local government regulation of businesses at all levels.\u00a0 I have reviewed several prominent cases that involved governments\u2019 failures to regulate business consistent with legislation.<\/p>\n<p>This experience has convinced me that Extended Producer Responsibility or EPR &#8212; as defined and advocated by proliferating pro-EPR entitles such as the Product Stewardship Institute &#8212; cannot achieve their own stated goals and purposes.\u00a0 That\u2019s because local governments lack the financial resources to win against large corporate interests.\u00a0Elected officials are subject to ever-shifting political winds over whom they choose to favor and what regulations they choose not to enforce. Staff must do as the elected officials decree.<\/p>\n<p>EPR depends on government regulation and oversight to \u201clevel the playing field\u201d for the participants, or so say EPR advocacy organizations.\u00a0 But this has not happened in the past and it will not happen in the future.<\/p>\n<p>EPR originated in Europe, where burning garbage is common and is considered \u201crecycling.\u201d PSI\u2019s website does not mention Europe or burning garbage. Yet one of PSI\u2019s partners is Covanta, an incinerator company.\u00a0 And British Columbia, the Canadian province that has taken EPR the farthest, has a 300 ton per day incinerator in the aptly named town or Burnaby as part of it\u2019s discard management system.\u00a0 Incineration doesn\u2019t conserve valuable materials like real recycling does.\u00a0 Incineration destroys resources. The idea that burning is recycling is a lie. The Pro-EPR folks embrace the British Columbia experience, which puts the actual recyclers on the lowest level of the playing field, and do not disavow incineration as recycling.<\/p>\n<p>The Product Stewardship Institute (PSI), the California Product Stewardship Council (CPSC), the Product Policy Institute (PSI), and the newer National Stewardship Action Council (NSAC) have all adopted \u201cprinciples\u201d for how EPR programs <strong>must<\/strong> be established. Their chosen form of EPR is a \u201c<strong>mandatory<\/strong> type of product stewardship.\u201d<a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/0BABB0D1-07DE-49A1-81BF-691A5E1BD288#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a> This\u00a0<strong>mandatory<\/strong> type of product stewardship <strong>requires<\/strong>, according to PSI:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGovernment is responsible for ensuring <strong>a level playing field for all parties in the product value chain to maintain a competitive marketplace with open access to all<\/strong>, for setting and enforcing performance goals and standards, for supporting industry programs through procurement, and for helping educate the public. \u201c<a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/0BABB0D1-07DE-49A1-81BF-691A5E1BD288#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[2]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Government\u2019s \u201cresponsibility\u201d for \u201censuring\u201d a level playing field for \u201call parties\u201d presumably includes the people and companies doing the actual work of recovering the products. To put the lie to economic justice for companies and workers recovering post-consumer goods for reuse or recycling, one needs to look no further than California\u2019s failure to manage its own bottle bill, which is a form of EPR.<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s bottle bill begins with the same kind of empty platitudes as those employed by PSI:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is the intent of the Legislature to encourage increased, and more convenient beverage container redemption opportunities forall consumers. These redemption opportunities shall consist of dealer and other shopping center \u00a0 locations, independent and industry operated recycling centers, curbside programs, and other recycling systems that assure all consumers, in every region of the state, the opportunity to return beverage containers conveniently, efficiently, and economically.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Moreover, the bill also states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that every container type proves its own \u00a0recyclability. It is the intent of the Legislature to make redemption and recycling convenient to consumers, and the Legislature hereby urges cities and counties, when exercising their zoning authority, to act favorably on the siting of multimaterial recycling centers, reverse vending machines, mobile recycling units, or other types of recycling opportunities, as necessary for consumer convenience, and the overall success of litter abatement and beverage container recycling in the state.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And furthermore:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe purpose of this division is to create and maintain a marketplace where it is profitable to establish sufficient recycling centers and locations to provide consumers with convenient recycling opportunities through the establishment of minimum refund values and processing fees and, through the proper application of these elements, to enhance the profitability of recycling centers, recycling locations, and other beverage container recycling programs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lastly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe responsibility to provide convenient, efficient, and economical redemption opportunities rests jointly with manufacturers, distributors, dealers, recyclers, processors, and the Department of Conservation (now CalRecycle).\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does the Bottle Bill as written and passed by the California legislature actually create a \u201clevel playing field?\u201d\u00a0 No it does not!<\/p>\n<p>The redemption centers that were promised by the bill to be \u201cprofitable\u201d were instead locked into an exploitative statutory compensation scheme that was based upon outdated economic models.\u00a0 The last two years\u2019 legislative sessions ended with no more money to the redemption centers, whose employees do the work of recycling. \u00a0Hundreds of redemption centers were closed and thousands of recycling jobs were lost.<\/p>\n<p>Just one chain &#8212; Re-Planet \u2013 reportedly closed 600 locations and laid off 1000 employees after the state starved them out.<a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/0BABB0D1-07DE-49A1-81BF-691A5E1BD288#_edn3\" name=\"_ednref3\">[3]<\/a>\u00a0 In the last five years, the number of redemption centers has fallen by over one third, resulting in \u201crecycling deserts\u201d in many parts of the state.\u00a0 Consumers today have far fewer places to go to \u201cget their nickel back\u201d from CRV deposits.<\/p>\n<p>Why would this be allowed to happen when the bill promises consumers \u201cin every region of the state, the opportunity to return beverage containers conveniently, efficiently, and economically\u201d?<a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/0BABB0D1-07DE-49A1-81BF-691A5E1BD288#_edn4\" name=\"_ednref4\">[4]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many consumers with no other recycling options will ultimately place their containers into their curbside collection carts that are picked up by franchised waste haulers.\u00a0 So the waste haulers end up getting paid deposit fees by the state for the CRV, not the consumers.\u00a0 The waste haulers are in fact big supporters and allies of PSI, as evidenced by PSI\u2019s \u201cpartnership\u201d with the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) and Waste Management Inc. (WMI)<a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/0BABB0D1-07DE-49A1-81BF-691A5E1BD288#_edn5\" name=\"_ednref5\">[5]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some critics of the bottle bill believe that the regulator, CalRecycle, is underenforcing the obligations of beverage distributors to pay into the fund that is supposed to make the system work. Grocery chains required by the bill to provide consumers the ability to claim the redemption money can opt out of the system entirely by paying $35,000 per year. Most that can, do. This further limits the ability of consumers to find locations to obtain CRV redemption.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, CalRecycle is sitting on a surplus of unclaimed CRV deposits in the tens of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Examples are easy to find of local government\u2019s inability to enforce regulations against businesses that possess limitless lawyers and resources:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>When the City of Oakland rejected the bid of Waste Management of Alameda County (WMAC) for a long-term solid waste franchise, WMAC sued the City of Oakland. With a school system in bankruptcy, a police department paying for a federal-court appointed monitor, a bloated obligation to pay union pensions, and rampant homelessness, the City of Oakland lacked the resources to fight WMAC\u2019s lawsuit. They folded. WMAC ended up with the franchise.<\/li>\n<li>When local jurisdictions began passing plastic bag bans, the plastic bag makers and their petrochemical allies filed CEQA lawsuits against the government entities, which cost a lot of time and money to defend. Most local jurisdictions that got sued, like Oakland, folded. When the City of Manhattan Beach finally stood up for itself and won the CEQA case against it, plastic bag bans became more common, setting up even more battles in the state legislature and then before the voters.<\/li>\n<li>Ask any city attorney or elected official that you know what it would take for them to want to sue a Waste Management. Inc. for not fulfilling contractual obligations, or sue a Coke or Pepsi megacorporation who leave a trail a plastic pollution in parks, public waterways, and stormwater systems, or sue Safeway for not providing CRV redemption opportunities as promised by the legislature.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I can only say, having litigated against large corporations represented by big law firms, that big businesses ignore local regulation when they can, because they can. They can outlast almost anyone who stands up to them.<\/p>\n<p>Besides having more resources, big businesses are also better at playing politics. Franchised waste haulers are an entrenched part of local government\u2019s obligation to keep garbage off the streets. The waste haulers work daily with local regulators in the common cause of \u201ccleanliness\u201d and \u201czero waste.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The waste haulers contribute to civic projects and the campaigns of the elected officials that supervise them. In this close relationship, local government staff is ill suited for aggressive regulation of waste haulers. The recyclers &#8212; the companies whose employees actually recover resources, not just \u201cmanage\u201d them &#8212; are not on a level playing field with waste haulers.<\/p>\n<p>Why would an EPR promise of \u201clevel playing fields\u201d not be just as hollow?<\/p>\n<p>NCRA secured a victory in court to uphold a voter-passed Solano County law limiting the import of garbage into the county.\u00a0 Cheap tipping fees in the county were reducing recycling and increasing air pollution because garbage was being imported from as far away as San Jose!\u00a0 Solano County government never tried to enforce the import limiting law and the Superior Court upheld the law over the 3-2 opposition of its Board of Supervisors.\u00a0 But after the court case was decided, waste haulers paid a lot of money to then assemblyperson Fiona Ma to intervene in the haulers\u2019 favor.\u00a0 Fiona Ma\u2019s law undoing the court decision was passed without any public hearings about the effects.<\/p>\n<p>On its website, the National Stewardship Action Council touts its \u201csponsorship\u201d of a California bill signed into law, AB 2287<a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/0BABB0D1-07DE-49A1-81BF-691A5E1BD288#_edn6\" name=\"_ednref6\">[6]<\/a>, which, according to the independent office of the Legislative Counsel, says \u201cThis bill would <strong>repeal<\/strong> the provision that conditionally prohibits the sale of any plastic product that is labeled \u201cmarine degradable.\u201d\u201d<a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/0BABB0D1-07DE-49A1-81BF-691A5E1BD288#_edn7\" name=\"_ednref7\">[7]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In other words, NSAC promoted a bill to make it easier to sell misleadingly labelled plastic products that say they are degradable in salt-water environments.\u00a0 Why would NSAC sponsor this?\u00a0 Could it be because they get their considerable funding from the same manufacturers that make and sell the misleadingly labeled products?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/0BABB0D1-07DE-49A1-81BF-691A5E1BD288#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> The Brown Act,\u00a0 California Government Code Code 54950 <em>et seq.<\/em>, passed in 1953 is an act that guarantees the public&#8217;s right to attend and participate in meetings of local legislative bodies.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brown_Act#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/0BABB0D1-07DE-49A1-81BF-691A5E1BD288#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[1]<\/a> Product Stewardship Institute website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/0BABB0D1-07DE-49A1-81BF-691A5E1BD288#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\">[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.productstewardship.us\/page\/Principles_of_EPR<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/0BABB0D1-07DE-49A1-81BF-691A5E1BD288#_ednref3\" name=\"_edn3\">[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2019-08-05\/recycling-center-business-replanet-shuts-down<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/0BABB0D1-07DE-49A1-81BF-691A5E1BD288#_ednref4\" name=\"_edn4\">[4]<\/a> CA Public Resources Code Section 14501.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/0BABB0D1-07DE-49A1-81BF-691A5E1BD288#_ednref5\" name=\"_edn5\">[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.productstewardship.us\/page\/Partners<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/0BABB0D1-07DE-49A1-81BF-691A5E1BD288#_ednref6\" name=\"_edn6\">[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nsaction.us\/legislation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/0BABB0D1-07DE-49A1-81BF-691A5E1BD288#_ednref7\" name=\"_edn7\">[7]<\/a> https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2287<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo Credit: Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@jannerboy62?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Nick Fewings<\/a> on <a 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