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Oregon’s New Package Recycling Rules Go on Trial, Could Impact Other States

Wholesalers say the private alliance lacks transparency and that fees will burden many companies, while the state says the program shifts disposal costs to producers.

Last year, Oregon became the first state to start charging companies for some of the end-life waste disposal costs created by their packaging. Then, the state quickly became the first to be sued over it and, this week, the first to go to trial. Federal Judge Michael Simon on Monday heard arguments from lawyers representing the wholesale product distribution industry in U.S. District Court in Portland, the first day of a five-day trial against th…

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The Business Journals broke the news in Charlotte, United States on Monday, July 13, 2026.
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