This policy could encourage companies to use greener packaging, but states need to be aligned

Why it matters

This policy encouraging greener packaging is a regulatory development with potential environmental benefits but lacks immediate or broad impact on credit markets, underwriting, or financing conditions, and depends on state-level alignment, limiting its current systemic relevance to sophisticated credit professionals.

Sources

• Fast Company

  This policy could encourage companies to use greener packaging, but states need to be aligned

  Standing in your local retail store, it can be mind-boggling to try to weigh the pros and cons of all the packaging options. Take shampoo, for example. Shampoo can come in a rigid plastic bottle, a flexible squeeze tube, a refillable metal canister, or a solid bar in a…