Tony Hackett

Tony Hackett is a Policy Associate at Californians Against Waste and a leading advocate on vape waste, battery-embedded products, and other hazardous consumer goods. Their work spans California’s SB 54 packaging extended producer responsibility law and Bottle Bill modernization, with a focus on recycled content requirements, market development, and preventing cost shifts to local governments and ratepayers. Tony engages in legislative strategy, regulatory implementation, and coalition building at the state and national level to advance source reduction, safer product design, and accountable producer responsibility systems.