As explained in a prior alert, Vermont’s first-in-the-nation household hazardous waste extended producer responsibility law required that a single stewardship organization register to represent all affected manufacturers and submit a single collection plan for approval by 25 July 2025. No stewardship organization satisfied that requirement. Accordingly, Vermont’s Agency of Natural Resources (the ANR) has announced that it will adopt and administer the first collection program for covered household hazardous products sold in the state.

In doing so, the ANR will charge each manufacturer the prorated costs of plan administration and oversight costs. It will also charge a hazardous-waste-reduction assessment of 10% of the plan’s total cost to be deposited in the Solid Waste Management Assis

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