Packaging: While ensuring that the functional requirements of packaging are not compromised, what proportion of the total material is reused, recycled and renewable?
The Union introduced recycling requirements on all packaging in the early 1990s, and has just formally adopted legislation to require recycling of motor vehicles.
It would prohibit the sale of discounted tobacco products, impose packagingrequirements on cheap cigars and create a price floor for cigarette packs and small cigars.
Called Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), this legislation would essentially set requirements for companies to collect and recycle a certain percentage of thepackaging waste they generate, but would leave how they go about doing it up to the companies themselves.
"As with other California labelling requirements, many manufacturers won't go to the trouble and expense of having separate packaging for other states, " he said.