Join Scott Cassel, CEO of the Product Stewardship Institute, who will discuss the latest trends and challenges for extended producer responsibility (EPR), a policy that is creating a global paradigm shift in how waste in managed. He will briefly identify the fundamentals of EPR policy and its framework (see earlier Workshop session), highlight the policy elements most important for influencing upstream product and packaging design, and discuss some of the hottest topics in EPR policy development. Additionally, Scott will identify the challenges that lie ahead, as well as highlight opportunities for state policy harmonization