A bipartisan group of lawmakers unveiled legislation Thursday that would prohibit “misleading” recycled content claims and implement industry-backed marketing standards.
The “Recycled Materials Attribution Act,” H.R. 7502, sponsored by Rep. Nick Langworthy (R-N.Y.), would put a “third-party certification system” in charge of deciding what rules should apply to product labels like “made with 30 percent recycled plastics.”
It would codify an expansive definition for recycling and a contentious accounting method — mass balance accounting — for recycled content claims on labels.
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Backing the bill’s introduction is the Recycling Leadership Council, a newly relaunched coalition comprising large chemical, plastics and petroleum trade groups.
