Oregon DEQ has opened comment on CAA’s third amendment to its approved 2025 to 2027 program plan. Five changes are proposed, and one reaches producers directly:
the covered material categories change. The plan states that its Table 21 categories are what producers report against
and what sets the 2027 fee schedule, so this is a reclassification with a price attached.
Read in the plan at pages 189 to 190, the changes are one rename and four splits:
• “PET (#1) Thermoformed Containers, Cups, Plates, Trays” is broken up and recombined with PET lids, giving
“PET (#1) Thermoformed Containers”, accepted on the statewide collection list, and “PET (#1) Lids, Cups, Plates, and Trays”, not accepted• “Aluminum Foil and Molded Containers” splits into “Aluminum Foil” and “Aluminum Molded Containers”
• “PP (#5) Tubs, Pails and Buckets, Nursery pots & trays” splits into two
• “HDPE (#2) Tubs, Nursery pots & trays” splits into two
• the long plastic-containers-for-hazardous-materials category is renamed “Plastic Packaging, Hazardous or Special Products”
What this means for you: if you sell PET thermoforms, PET lids or cups, aluminum foil or molded aluminum, or PP and HDPE tubs or nursery pots into Oregon, your material moves to a different line. The PET split is the sharpest: thermoformed containers land on the accepted list while lids, cups, plates and trays do not. CAA says it needs approval by December 2026 so the new categories reach the producer portal before 2027 reporting opens. Comments go to RethinkRecycling@deq.oregon.gov by
5:00 p.m. Pacific on October 19, 2026. Nothing is decided yet and nothing changes today. Source:
Oregon DEQ, Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act (read September 20, 2026); CAA proposed amended program plan, Table 21 and pages 189 to 190, read in full.