Colorado Hires PRO for its EPR Program and Gears Up Beyond.

It's hired a producer responsibility organization (PRO) to administer the program, which will require producers to pay for recycling of paper and packaging, among provisions. "We wrote the bill to be flexible, depending on each local government's current system", she says, explaining that a few Colorado jurisdictions run their own recycling programs, and a growing number of them contract with local haulers. A year after passing its Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) law, Colorado has made a few monumental moves to be able to put the plan into play. [Extracted from the article]