# EPR Costs and answering compostable packaging questions on the Packaging Today Show with Cory and Evelio

- Show: [People of Packaging](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/people-of-packaging)
- Published: 2024-02-28
- Length: 30m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/people-of-packaging/2024-02-28-epr-costs-and-answering-compostable-packaging-questions-on-the-packaging-today-s
- Listen: https://encase.substack.com/p/epr-costs-and-answering-compostable

## Summary

Packaging experts Evelio Mattos, Adam Peek, and Cory Connors discuss the expanding landscape of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations in the US and their potential to increase consumer costs. They critically analyze the viability of compostable packaging, highlighting infrastructure gaps, consumer confusion, and the reality that landfills are anaerobic environments where materials do not break down. The group emphasizes that a multifaceted approach to sustainability is necessary, rather than relying on a single solution like compostables.

## Chapters

- [1:14](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/people-of-packaging/2024-02-28-epr-costs-and-answering-compostable-packaging-questions-on-the-packaging-today-s#t=74) Introduction and Sports Banter
- [10:01](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/people-of-packaging/2024-02-28-epr-costs-and-answering-compostable-packaging-questions-on-the-packaging-today-s#t=601) EPR Regulations and State-by-State Implementation
- [14:18](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/people-of-packaging/2024-02-28-epr-costs-and-answering-compostable-packaging-questions-on-the-packaging-today-s#t=858) The Reality of Compostable Packaging Infrastructure
- [18:30](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/people-of-packaging/2024-02-28-epr-costs-and-answering-compostable-packaging-questions-on-the-packaging-today-s#t=1110) Consumer Education and Contamination Issues
- [26:01](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/people-of-packaging/2024-02-28-epr-costs-and-answering-compostable-packaging-questions-on-the-packaging-today-s#t=1561) EPR Cost Impacts and Consumer Pass-Through

## Topics

- [Policy, trade & tariffs](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/policy-trade-and-tariffs)
- [Sustainability & circular products](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/sustainability-and-circularity)
- [Materials & manufacturing processes](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/materials-and-processes)

## Most relevant to

established companies

## Mentioned

- SmartSolve (company)
- D-A-Y-E (company)
- The Scrapp App (product)
- Tyson Foods (company)
- General Mills (company)

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