Comment When was the last time you read the Constitution? (Score 1) 118
The Constitution doesn't grant Congress the power to regulate packaging labels, so this is a state issue. The federal judge is wrong.
On the other hand, a standardized package label that tells me how to recycle the package is useful, regardless of how much of that type of packaging gets recycled. It doesn't matter if there are no facilities for recycling that type of packaging nearby today. There might be in a year or three. My complaint is that all too often the symbol is hard to find, or hard to read.
The state can publish a report on how much of each type of plastic is actually being recycled. This is much less invasive than requiring state-specific package labeling (changing the injection mold forms to remove the recycling symbol ONLY for California-destined product)