The plan proposes fees that charge more for new plastic and give a bonus for recycled content. The state's decision is expected in late December.
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What is moving in the loop.
The reporting we read to build this. Brands moving to insetting, the carbon market and the new standard, packaging law, the capital moving into recycling, recycled content, and closed loops at stores and venues. Every item links to the source.
Updated November 2026.
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Brands that sell packaging into Oregon pay fees by the pound, at a rate set for each material. Oregon has invoiced producers since July 2025.
From January 1, 2027, recycled content counts toward credits under California's packaging law only with a postconsumer recycled content certification from the Association of Plastic Recyclers.
Brands moving to insetting
General Mills, Mars and Nutrien fund emissions cuts inside their own supplier base instead of buying unrelated offsets.
Patagonia funds a supplier's boiler replacement and counts the reduction, a template also piloted by H&M, Netflix and REI.
Verra and Isometric are writing standards for credits tied to real supply-chain investments. Insetting is becoming infrastructure auditors can rely on.
More than half of the coffee supply now comes from farms in the program, backed by a company-run insetting fund.
Carbon credits and the new standard
A University of Pennsylvania study found auditors missed known flaws in two thirds of the projects checked.
An analysis of the 43 largest 2024 offset projects found most retired credits were problematic.
SBTi spells out that purchased credits cannot substitute for reductions inside the value chain.
The final standard puts supplier and value-chain action ahead of market instruments. A science-based target now needs real interventions.
EPR and packaging law
Oregon has moved from rule writing to enforcement, naming producers and warning of daily fines.
Binding reduction, recycling-rate and recyclability targets by 2032 in the largest consumer market in the country.
Maryland joins Washington and Minnesota in requiring producer reporting this year.
One binding packaging law across every member state, with recyclability and recycled-content requirements.
Capital into recycling
Private credit lending against recycling equipment, secured on the program.
Brands and development finance institutions backed a first close for recycling and circular supply chains.
A global bank extending a revolving green loan to a Circular Economy fund manager.
Recycled content
Member brands sit well short of the 2030 recycled-content target. Demand is real, proven supply is the gap.
How brands must verify and disclose recycled content against the EU's binding bottle targets.
Stores, venues and closed loops
A venue-level closed loop at Levi's Stadium, run through one season.
A brand operating a closed loop at flagship-event scale.
A major retailer running an in-house circular program at real volume.
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