AB 1001, as introduced, Gordon. Beverage containers: plastic.
The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to calculate a processing fee and a processing payment for each beverage container with a specified scrap value, to be paid by beverage manufacturers for each beverage container sold or transferred to a distributor or dealer. Existing law specifies procedures for the reduction of the processing fee for PET containers, as defined. Existing law also requires all rigid plastic bottles and rigid plastic containers to be labeled with a code which indicates the resin used to produce the rigid plastic bottle or rigid plastic container.
This bill would revise the definition of the term “PET container” for purposes of the act to include a plastic beverage container labeled with the term “PETE.”
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 14515.5 of the Public Resources Code
2 is amended to read:
“PET container” means a plastic beverage container
2labeled with a “1”begin insert or with “PETE” for polyethylene terephthalate
3resin,end insert pursuant to Section 18015 and subject to this division.
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