Amended in Assembly March 26, 2015

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1447

Introduced by Assembly Member Low

February 27, 2015

An act to begin delete amend Section 40003 of end delete begin insert add Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 18050) to Division 12.7 to end insert the Public Resources Code, relating to solid waste.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1447, as amended, Low. Solid waste: begin delete beverage containers. end delete begin insert PET food and beverage packaging. end insert

The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, which is administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, generally regulates the management and recycling of solid waste. begin delete The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act requires a distributor to pay a redemption payment for every beverage container sold or offered for sale in the state to the department. Existing law provides that nothing in the waste act affects the duties of the department under the beverage act. end delete begin insert Existing law requires all rigid plastic bottles and rigid plastic containers, including bottles and containers composed of polyethylene terephthalate, sold in California on and after January 1, 1992, to be labeled with a code which indicates the resin used to produce the rigid plastic bottle or rigid plastic container. end insert

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This bill would require, on and after January 1, 2017, and annually thereafter, a California manufacturer of containers primarily composed of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and used for food or beverages to report to the department, in a manner determined by the department, certain information, including the total amount of tons of new PET plastic packaging made for sale by that manufacturer.

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This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  begin delete no end delete begin insert yes end insert . State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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begin insert SECTION 1. end insert   

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begin insert Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 18050) is
added to Division 12.7 of the end insert begin insert Public Resources Code end insert begin insert , to read: end insert

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Chapter   begin insert 3. end insert PET Food Plastic Packaging

 

begin insert 18050. end insert   

For purposes of this chapter, “PET plastic packaging”
means packaging consisting primarily of polyethylene terephthalate
(PET) and used to contain food or beverages.

begin insert 18052. end insert   

On and after January 1, 2017, and annually thereafter,
every manufacturer of PET plastic packaging in the state shall
report to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery,
in a manner determined by the department, both of the following:

(a) The total amount of tons of new PET plastic packaging made
for sale by that manufacturer.

(b) The total amount of postfilled PET plastic used in the
manufacturing of that packaging.

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SECTION 1.  

Section 40003 of the Public Resources Code is
amended to read:

40003.  

Nothing in this division abrogates, limits, or otherwise
affects the duties of the department under the California Beverage
Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act (Division 12.1
(commencing with Section 14500)).

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