New York’s state legislature is expected to adjourn Friday without voting on a range of waste and recycling-related bills. The legislature was meant to adjourn Thursday, but returned for a final day on Friday. Bills that aimed to establish EPR for packaging, upgrade the state’s bottle bill and ease trash collection from street sweeping weren’t expected to be a high priority compared with other last-minute votes. New York lawmakers were also getting back on track in the days since they passed the state budget, a process that was five months in the making and passed two months late, Spectrum News reported. EPR for packaging, bottle bills will not move forward The New York state legislature is not expected to pass a contentious extended producer responsibility for packaging bill in the final hours of the session. The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act faced another year of intense scrutiny, lobbying and more than 30 amendments. Previous versions of the bill passed the Senate in both 2024 and 2025, but neither made it through the Assembly before the clock ran out on the session. This year, SB 1464A / A1749, sponsored by state Sen. Pete Harckham and Assemblymember Deborah Glick, called for certain packaging producers to join and pay into the EPR program. The bill also set reuse and recycling rates for packaging: 35% by 2032, which would ramp up to 75% by 2052, according to the bill. It also called for eliminating packaging that contained PFAS four years after the EPR program rules took effect. Producers with more than $5 million in annual net revenue and packaging waste exceeding two tons annually would have also needed to meet certain packaging reduction requirements. Supporters, including Beyond Plastics and a coalition of 19 environmental justice groups, advocated for the bill’s efforts to protect