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Read. Follow. Verify.North Carolina House Bill 882 Establishes Extended Producer Responsibility and Bans PFAS and Toxic Substances in Packaging
Last action · April 10, 2025: Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House (House action)Sponsors: Pricey Harrison and 15 others
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What This Bill Would Do
This bill establishes requirements for packaging materials, bans specific toxic substances and intentionally added in packaging and covered products, and appropriates $100,000 to the Department of Environmental Quality for implementation beginning October 1, 2025.
Producers of packaging materials face mandatory reduction schedules, recycling quotas, and labeling rules, while manufacturers of goods sold in North Carolina must eliminate toxic chemical additives like ortho-phthalates and under threat of civil penalties.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Responsible producers
Producers must register, join stewardship organizations, pay participation fees, meet packaging reduction and recycling schedules, and incorporate postconsumer waste content.
Solid waste collectors
Collectors may elect to receive reimbursement from producer responsibility organizations for the recovery, recycling, and processing of packaging materials.
Department of Environmental Quality
The Department is tasked with reviewing and approving stewardship plans, monitoring compliance, maintaining lists of noncompliant entities, and administering program rules.
Key Facts
- Responsible producers must register with the Department of Environmental Quality before selling or distributing products in packaging materials.
- Producers must participate in an approved producer responsibility organization structured as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit entity.
- Non-reusable packaging materials must be reduced by 10% after two years, 20% after four years, 30% after six years, and 40% after eight years following stewardship plan approval.
- Non-reusable packaging material must achieve recycling rates of 50% after five years, 80% after eight years, and 90% after 12 years.
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- Non-reusable packaging material must incorporate postconsumer waste material content of 50% after five years, 80% after eight years, and 90% after 12 years.
- Producers generating less than $2,000,000 in gross revenue, selling less than 1 ton of products, or operating a single point of retail sale are exempt from producer responsibility requirements.
- The manufacture and distribution of packaging materials containing covered toxic substances—including ortho-phthalates, bisphenols, PFAS, lead, cadmium, and polyvinyl chloride—is prohibited starting October 1, 2025.
- The manufacture, sale, or offer for sale of any covered product, including food packaging, containing intentionally added PFAS is banned.
- Manufacturers of covered products must provide persons offering the product for sale with a signed certificate of compliance stating the product contains no intentionally added PFAS.
- The Secretary of Environmental Quality may assess civil penalties up to $5,000, or up to $25,000 for hazardous waste violations, against persons violating toxic substance bans.
- The sum of $100,000 in nonrecurring funds is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environmental Quality for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, becoming effective July 1, 2025.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
3 actions- Apr 10, 2025HouseRef To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
- Apr 10, 2025HousePassed 1st Reading
- Apr 9, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
Version history
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Discoveries
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Establishment of Extended Producer Responsibility
North Carolina is introducing comprehensive producer responsibility mandates that shift packaging waste management costs onto manufacturers through mandatory fees and recycling targets.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance85How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy65Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz45Current news / social attention level
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