Darla Arians

As the Policy & Program Director at PSI, Darla helps to identify, design and implement key initiatives to establish and implement EPR laws, and to evaluate and improve EPR programs across all product areas. In her recent capacity as EPR Lead for the State of Colorado, Darla served as the technical expert for the implementation and oversight of Colorado’s packaging EPR program. As the former Division Manager of Boulder County’s Resource Conservation Division, Darla co-founded the Colorado Product Stewardship Council in 2012 and helped lead the statewide initiative which led to the passage of the Architectural Paint Stewardship Act in 2014. She has first-hand experience implementing EPR at the local and state level, as well as 20 years of operational and managerial experience in the waste industry. She formerly served on the PSI board, was an inaugural board member of the Front Range Waste Diversion Enterprise Fund (FRWD) Board of Directors, served as the chair for the City and County of Broomfield’s Advisory Committee on Environmental Sustainability (ACES) which led to the passage of Broomfield’s Zero Waste Resolution and Zero Waste Action Plan, and she formerly served as chair of the Recycle Colorado (RC) Policy Committee, contributing to a number of landmark environmental policies in Colorado.