US states
The packaging and paper categories that a specific EPR program regulates, defining exactly what must be reported and paid for.
Covered material lists define scope. They typically include primary, secondary and tertiary packaging plus, in several US states, printed paper products. Exclusions commonly cover reusable transport packaging, packaging for regulated medical products, and beverage containers already handled by a deposit system.
The lists differ enough between states that a single national tonnage figure cannot be reused. A material that is covered in Oregon may be excluded in Colorado, and paper products in scope in one state may be out of scope in another.
Practically, this means covered-material determination has to be applied to component-level data per jurisdiction, and the classification logic has to be versioned, because scope lists are amended as programs mature.
California's Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, the most demanding US packaging EPR law.
The producer responsibility organisation selected to run packaging EPR programs in most US states with packaging EPR laws.
The annual declaration of packaging weight by material category placed on a market, and the basis for nearly every EPR invoice.
Packgine resolves your packaging to component level and applies the rules of every market you sell into.