California SB54 doesn’t just raise print costs. It creates “rework costs.”

With SB54 in court and SB343 paused by injunction, North American packaging and label work now hinges on who runs state EPR × labeling × materials—and who pays for revisions, inventory, and mis-shipments.

California’s packaging EPR law (SB54) is already in force. But the same SB54 is being sued from both sides—too weak and too strict—while the recycling-labeling law SB343 is wobbling under an injunction.

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