BOULDER, Colo. — Starting June 2026, Colorado communities could begin seeing the benefits of the new producer responsibility program. Residents and municipalities that apply for reimbursements will no longer have to pay for recycling services.
HB22-1355 was signed back in 2022, but the program that puts the plan in motion was just approved in December 2025.
“This new law requires producers of paper products and packaging to essentially create this new producer responsibility program,” said Wolf Kray, material management unit leader for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment…