Republican-led states are suing California over its new law putting companies on the hook for ensuring plastic waste is handled properly.
Seventeen attorneys general filed a complaint Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California that the state’s landmark 2022 law is unconstitutional due to “substantial burdens on interstate commerce” and other “revolutionary changes” on how plastic waste is disposed.
The law, SB 54, is “a blatant and unprecedented attempt to impose its own policy preferences on the entire nation” and “will require dramatic and extremely expensive transformations of a wide range of products, business models, and logistics practices,” the complaint says.
The “Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act” requires producers ensure single-use plastics for food packaging are recyclable or compostable by 2032. It took effect on May 1.
