Podcast | What Quick Lube Operators Need to Know About EPR Laws (with David Lawes)

David Lawes, CEO of Lubricants Packaging Management Association powered by Interchange 360, explains extended producer responsibility laws and how they will impact the operations of quick lube businesses.
Nov. 6, 2025

Extended producer responsibility laws, which make producers financially and operationally responsible for managing their products and packaging at the end of their life cycle, are on the rise in states across the U.S. David Lawes, CEO of the Lubricants Packaging Management Association powered by Interchange 360, joins the NOLN Podcast to explain the ramifications of EPR laws for quick lube operators.

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Tom Valentino

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Tom Valentino is the editor of National Oil and Lube News. A graduate of Ohio University, he has more than two decades of experience in newspapers, public relations and trade magazines, covering everything from high school sports to behavioral health care. Tom’s first vehicle was a 1990 Mazda 626, which he used to deliver pizzas in the summer after graduating high school. Today, he drives a 2019 Jeep Compass, which usually has a trunk full of his daughter’s sports gear. In his spare time, Tom is an avid Cleveland sports fan and a volunteer youth sports coach.

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