In 2017, the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) organized a multi-stakeholder process to improve the state’s household hazardous waste (HHW) management system. Stakeholders, which included solid waste districts, towns and alliances, haulers, trade associations, state representatives, hazardous waste contractors, and environmental non‐profits, made recommendations on how HHW should be effectively and conveniently managed in a cost‐effective manner. While the group came to agreement on the need for additional permanent facilities to safely manage HHW, there was no consensus on how best to fund this program. Various suggestions were discussed, including extended producer responsibility (EPR) legislation for HHW products. EPR is “a mandatory type of product stewardship that includes, at a minimum, the requirement that the producer’s responsibility for their product extends to post-consumer management of that product and its packaging. There are two related features of EPR policy: (1) shifting financial and management responsibility, with government oversight, upstream to the producer and away from the public sector; and (2) providing incentives to producers to incorporate environmental considerations into the design of their products and packaging.”ii In 2018, an EPR for HHW bill, H.560, was introduced in the Vermont legislature and passed the House. While the bill did not make it through the Senate, extensive stakeholder discussions highlighted the need to ensure a financially sustainable management system for HHW products that would be convenient for consumers and cost effective for municipalities.