Recycled Materials Attribution Act of 2026

This bill would ban businesses from using misleading recycled content claims when advertising, marketing, or selling products to consumers, and would bar fuels sold as end products from being marketed as "recycled content." It would allow companies to back up recycled content claims using mass balance accounting, a method that tracks recycled and conventional materials mixed together, if the method follows the rules of an independent third-party certification system. The Federal Trade Commission would have to update its "Green Guides" on environmental marketing within one year and would enforce the ban as an unfair or deceptive practice. States and local governments could not keep or enforce their own laws related to the bill's prohibition and enforcement provisions.

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Sponsors

• Nicholas A. Langworthy Republican sponsor
• 13 cosponsors