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Why this exists

Atlas Circular tracks circularity-aligned legislation across 37 jurisdictions — all 50 US states and US federal action, the EU and its member states, and national law from Japan and India to Kenya, Chile and Australia. By following Extended Producer Responsibility, right-to-repair, deposit-return, recycled-content, labeling, and related laws in one place, it makes visible where the policy momentum — and the market opportunity for a circular economy — is building, and turns a firehose of legislative activity into the handful of bills and deadlines that actually affect you.

How the analysis works

Every bill is screened against a fixed set of circularity criteria, then auto-classified for relevance, policy instrument, and the material streams it touches — with a confidence score on each call. Relevant bills get their compliance details (deadlines, covered products, producer obligations) extracted from the bill text, and a growing set is spot-reviewed by a human. Each bill shows whether its relevance call is auto-classified or reviewed, so you always know what you're looking at.

Legislative data is sourced from Open States (Plural Policy). Classifications are automated and may contain errors; always verify against the primary source before relying on any result. See the full methodology →