New York state lawmakers will hold a hearing Tuesday on reducing packaging.

State Senate Environmental Conservation Committee Chair Peter Harckham and Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee Chair Deborah Glick will take testimony aimed to steer legislative solutions to reduce the amount of waste brought on by packaging.

Almost one-third of the waste generated in the United States is from plastic and packaging, the lawmakers said. They also said after struggling with increased costs, municipal recycling programs often face the choice of either increasing taxes or significantly limiting the materials they accept, leading to lower recycling rates.

They cite a growing number of countries and states that have adopted laws to shift the end-of-life responsibility for material management from municipalities to producers by establishing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programs. The legislative committees will examine potential EPR programs in New York.

Earlier this year. Harckham and Glick pushed the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Bill, which would put responsibility on producers to cut waste, ban certain toxic chemicals and require a 50% waste reduction in 12 years, which hadn’t made the cut in previous proposals over recent years.

Both Assembly and Senate versions of the bill were referred to Harckham and Glick's respective committees before the most recent legislative session ended in June.