This page explains what stands behind each number on the site, so a reader can decide how much weight to put on a given page.
If you find something wrong, the corrections section explains what happens next.
This page is free to read and updated weekly, and the fee calculator needs a free EPR Atlas account.
Last updated October 25, 2026.
The standard on this site is that a figure comes from the instrument that creates it: the statute, the adopted rule, the agency's published list, the published fee schedule, or the producer responsibility organization's program plan. The confidence label on a figure says how far that figure got.
Figures differ in how settled they are, so the label sits on the figure it describes, and a figure with no quotable string in its source is not labeled Confirmed.
Trade press and law-firm alerts are used to find a primary source and stand in for one only where the primary source is not freely available, in which case the entry says so. A search result, an AI answer, a conference slide, or a link that merely resolves is treated the same way, as a pointer to a source.
Where a provision governs a date, the transition and effective-date sections are read alongside it, because either can move the date the main section states.
A citation on this site points at the provision that states the fact.
The homepage tracker, the seven enacted-state pages, and the de minimis and B2B guides use three labels, so a number stated in an adopted rule is distinguishable from a projection without reading a footnote.
Confirmed. Stated in a statute, an adopted rule, an approved program plan, or a published schedule or agency list, and quotable from the provision cited. A figure earns this label only if there is a verbatim string in the cited provision that supports it.
Signaled. An official draft, a filed program plan, or an agency statement exists, but nothing is adopted, so the figure is directionally reliable and can still change before it is final.
Speculative. Nothing has been published, and the figure is this site's own projection, usually another state's published rate carried across, so it is suited only to sizing a range.
Pending states carry a signal: High, Medium, Watch, or Dead.
This is an editorial read of legislative momentum. It is not a prediction of passage and has no citable source, while the last action and the next milestone shown underneath it are sourced.
Dead means the bill is finished for its current session, by defeat, indefinite postponement, or adjournment. It does not mean the state has stopped considering EPR.
A full review pass runs weekly. Every page shows the date the site was last updated, and that date moves when a review pass ships changes, not when the site rebuilds.
A not yet published label describes the regulation, and the last-updated date describes this site.
Fee figures come from the published fee schedules, and the calculator shows which schedule is in force for each state.
The source documents are watched for silent replacement, because one schedule this site relied on was withdrawn and re-issued by its publisher two days after it was loaded.
This site tracks packaging and paper producer responsibility in the United States.
It does not track beverage-container deposit programs, which are a different instrument with a different scope, even where a state calls its law producer responsibility. Vermont H.915 and Connecticut Public Act 26-148, both 2026 beverage-container laws, are excluded for this reason.
Recyclability labeling and environmental marketing claims laws are not tracked as EPR programs, since they govern what a package may say rather than who pays for it, but the federal bills page and the litigation tracker follow the labeling bills and the SB 343 case.
Four adjacent regimes are also out of scope. Textile EPR is out: California SB 707 covers apparel and textiles, which are not packaging. Postconsumer recycled content mandates are out: they set what a package must be made of rather than funding collection and recycling, so they create no PRO and no program plan, and a fee such as Washington's covers only the agency's own workload (RCW 70A.245.020(3)). Non-U.S. programs are out, including the Canada Federal Plastics Registry. EU packaging law is out here and covered on its own sites: the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation at PPWR Atlas, and the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and Digital Product Passport at ESPR Atlas. Each is reconsidered if it starts to carry a packaging producer fee.
Rules move weekly and no process makes a site like this error-free.
Reports are reviewed by a person against the source the figure cites.
The reports worth sending are: a figure that does not match the document in front of you, a rule or date that has moved since the site was last updated, or two pages on this site that disagree with each other.
Send them to info@hartteradvisory.com.
It is not legal advice, and it is not a compliance filing. It reads the same public sources a reader could, in one place, and it marks where a rule is still open.
Every state guide has the fee schedule where one has been published, registration deadlines, program plan status, eco-modulation detail, the statute and any implementing rule, and exemptions.