The California Assembly Waste Committee held an HHW/EPR (household hazardous waste and extended producer responsibility) hearing in Palo Alto, CA, on Nov. 4, 2015. The full, approximately 3-hour hearing can be seen on the California Product Stewardship Council's YouTube channel. CalRecycle and three local governments spoke in the first hour about the benefits of EPR (or product stewardship) programs, reinforced by battery stewards Call2Recycle and PaintCare, but opposed by a representative from PhRMA. Waste and recycling haulers next spoke on the need for sharps stewardship legislation, and finally came public comment. One of the local government agency speakers commented on the CARE carpet stewardship program that it is a "market based approach for a product that has no market." Carl Smith, CEO of Call2Recycle, posted the text of his testimony online.