Packaging EPR rules dataset (7 states): JSON licence

What's in it

• 7 state records: Oregon, Colorado, California, Minnesota, Maryland, Washington and Maine
• 48 dated deadlines and 87 source documents (statutes, rules, regulator pages, PRO policies)
• The Circular Action Alliance's registration steps and reporting policy
• Cross-state differences (revenue tests, tonnage units, who reports shipping boxes) and the status of bills in 15 other states

Free sample: Oregon

epr-rules-sample-oregon.json: Oregon's full record, exactly as it appears in the dataset, plus the shared notes.

Fields in each state record

• state, law: The state and the statute and rules (with citations).
• status, status_detail: Where the program stands (in effect, starting, enacted but not yet operating) and the key dates and court cases.
• pro, regulator: The producer responsibility organization (PRO) and the state agency.
• producer_definition: Who the obligated producer is for retail packaging, e-commerce and shipping packaging, service packaging, food serviceware and paper, and how affiliated companies are grouped.
• exemptions: Each small-producer test as data: type (revenue, tonnage, entity), threshold, unit, scope (global or in-state), period and comparison; whether exempt producers must still file; material and product exemptions; what is not exempt.
• covered_materials: Covered packaging and paper, and links to the official material category lists.
• reporting: The report, what it contains, recycled-content (PCR) reporting, data year versus fee year, and the accepted estimation methods.
• deadlines: Dated obligations and comment periods: date, what is due, and a confidence level.
• fees: Published fee examples (per pound), flat fees and who qualifies for them, with the source.
• penalties, enforcement: Maximum penalties, the penalty process, sales bans, and the regulator's producer lists.
• uncertain: Open questions we could not settle from official sources, stated as such.
• sources: The statutes, rules, regulator pages and PRO documents the record was built from.
• confidence: On every section: high (read in statute, rule or an official PDF), medium (official but indirect, or confirmed by a second source) or low.

Licence, in plain language

• Who it covers: One organization: the company that buys it, and its employees and contractors working for it.
• What you may do: Use the data inside your organization, and in your own products and services, including ones you sell: a compliance tool, a calculator, a report for a client, an internal dashboard.
• What you may not do: Resell, sublicense, share or republish the raw dataset, or a large part of it, as a dataset: no reposting the files, and no download, feed or API whose main purpose is to hand out the data.
• Where the facts come from: Public state agency pages, forms, laws and rules, and producer responsibility organization documents (such as Circular Action Alliance policies). Each value links to its source. You are paying for our compilation: the selection, structure, notes and checking.
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• Not legal advice: This is general information from public sources, not legal advice.
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