SB 343 (Allen): Environmental advertising: recycling symbol (2021) - Co-Sponsored By NSAC

By Senator Allen and Assemblymembers Friedman and GOnzalez

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• Co-sponsored by NSAC and Californians Against Waste

• Coalition Support Letter: to be added to this letter, please:

  • Email with your name, title, logo, signature to be added to the letter​ or,

  • Complete this short form

• Fact Sheet

• Senate Appropriations Analysis

• Senate Judiciary Analysis

• Senate EQ Analysis

• Status:

  • Will be heard next in Senate Appropriations Committee on suspense, must be heard by May 21.

    • Senate Judiciary Hearing Recording

    • Senate EQ Hearing Recording​

• The bill would prohibit a person from offering for sale, selling, distributing, or importing into the state any product or packaging using a deceptive or misleading claim about its recyclability. The bill would provide that the display of a chasing arrows symbol, a chasing arrows symbol surrounding a resin identification code, or any other symbol or statement indicating the product or packaging is recyclable, or directing the consumer to recycle the product or packaging, is deemed to be a deceptive or misleading claim unless the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery has determined the product or packaging is recyclable.

AB 818 (Bloom): Solid waste: premoistened nonwoven disposable wipes (2021) - Co-Sponsored By NSAC

By Assemblymember Bloom

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• Co-Sponsored by NSAC, California Association of Sanitation Agencies (CASA), and Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry (INDA)

• Coalition Support Sign-on Letter: to be added to this letter, please:

  • Email with your name, title, logo, signature to be added to the letter​ or,

  • Complete this short form

• NSAC Sponsor Support Letter

• CASA Sponsor Support Letter

• Fact Sheet

• Status:

  • Re-referred to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation to be on the consent calendar, hearing date TBD.

• This bill would require, except as provided, certain premoistened nonwoven disposable wipes manufactured on or after July 1, 2022, to be labeled clearly and conspicuously with the phrase “Do Not Flush” and a related symbol, as specified. The bill would prohibit a covered entity, as defined, from making a representation about the flushable attributes, benefits, performance, or efficacy of those premoistened nonwoven disposable wipes, as provided. The bill would establish enforcement provisions, including authorizing a civil penalty not to exceed $2,500 per day, up to a maximum of $100,000 per violation, to be imposed on a covered entity who violates those provisions.

• The bill would establish, until January 1, 2027, the California Consumer Education and Outreach Program, under which covered entities would be required, among other things, to participate in a collection study conducted in collaboration with wastewater agencies for the purpose of gaining understanding of consumer behavior regarding the flushing of premoistened nonwoven disposable wipes and to conduct a comprehensive multimedia education and outreach program in the state. The bill would require covered entities to annually report to specified legislative committees and the State Water Resources Control Board on their activities under the program and would require the state board to post the reports on its internet website.

HR 2238 (Lowenthal): Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act (2021)

By representative Lowenthal

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• Status: 

  • 3/29/2021: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment 

• To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to reduce the production and use of certain single-use plastic products and packaging, to improve the responsibility of producers in the design, collection, reuse, recycling, and disposal of their consumer products and packaging, to prevent pollution from consumer products and packaging from entering into animal and human food chains and waterways, and for other purposes.

HB2828: Solar; Electric Vehicle Batteries; Disposal (2020)

By Representative Finchem

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• Status:

  • 2/26/2020: Rules Committee voted 8-0 that the bill is Constitutional and in Proper form

• Would require solar panels to be recycled at an approved recycling facility. It would also would impose a $5 per panel fee on the person who sells or leases the panels, unless those panels are produced by a manufacturer that has its own recycling program.

AJR 4 (C. Garcia): Basel Convention (2021) - SUPPORT

By Assemblymembers Cristina Garcia, Bennett, Friedman, Lorena Gonzalez, Holden, Quirk, and Luz Rivas, Aguiar-Curry, Arambula, Bauer-Kahan, Berman, Bloom, Boerner Horvath, Bonta, Burke, Calderon, Carrillo, Cervantes, Chau, Chen, Chiu, Cooley, Cooper, Cunningham, Frazier, Gabriel, Eduardo Garcia, Gipson, Gray, Irwin, Jones-Sawyer, Kalra, Lee, Levine, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, O’Donnell, Quirk-Silva, Ramos, Rendon, Reyes, Robert Rivas, Rodriguez, Blanca Rubio, Santiago, Stone, Ting, Villapudua, Voepel, Ward, and Wood and Senators Allen, Eggman, Stern, Wieckowski, and Wiener.

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• Coalition Support Letter: to be added to this letter, please:

  • Email with your name, title, logo, signature to be added to the letter​ or,

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• Fact Sheet

• Press Release

• Status:

  • 4/5/21: Passed off the Assembly Floor with a 60-0, with 18 votes not recorded. Will be heard next in the Senate.

• This measure would declare California to be in favor of the United States’ ratification of the Basel Convention at the earliest opportunity and would request the Biden Administration to accomplish this ratification as a matter of urgency.

AB 246 (Quirk & Mathis): Contractor Disciplinary Actions for Illegal Dumping (2021) - SUPPORT

By Assemblymember Quirk, Mathis, Bauer-Kahan, Lee, and Cunningham

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• NSAC Support Letter

• Status:

  • Re-referred to Assembly Appropriations Committee on consent.​

• Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of contractors by the Contractors’ State License Board (board). Under existing law, a willful or deliberate disregard by a licensed contractor of various state building, labor, and safety laws constitutes a cause for disciplinary action by the board.

• This bill would reorganize these provisions and would add illegal dumping to the list of violations that constitute a cause for disciplinary action against a contractor by the board.

AB 478 (Ting): Thermoform plastic containers: postconsumer recycled plastic. (2021) - SUPPORT

By Assemblymember Ting

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• Status:

  • 4/20/2021:Re-referred to Committee on Appropriations, hearing date TBA.

• This bill, on and after January 1, 2024, would require the total thermoform plastic containers, as defined, sold by a producer, as defined, in the state to contain, on average, specified amounts of postconsumer recycled plastic, as defined, per year pursuant to a tiered plan that would require the total thermoform plastic containers to contain, on average, no less than 30% postconsumer recycled plastic per year on and after January 1, 2030.

AB 661 (Bennett): Recycling: materials (2021) - SUPPORT

By Assemblymember Bennett

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• Status:

  • 3/15/2021: Re-referred to Committee on Accountability and Administrative Review.​

• This bill would improve the State Agency Buy Recycled Campaign (SABRC) by:

  • Requiring a state agency, if fitness and quality are equal, to purchase recycled products instead of nonrecycled products, without regard to cost.

  • Substantially revising product categories.

  • Requiring the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the DGS, to update a list of products and minimum recycled content percentages, as determined to be appropriate, commencing January 1, 2025, and every 3 years thereafter. 

  • The bill would require all state agency procurement and contracting officers, or their designees, to participate in mandatory annual training, as prescribed, conducted jointly by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery and the DGS, and more.

AB 707 (Quirk): Mercury Thermostats (2021)

By Assemblymember Quirk

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• Status:

  • 2/25/2021: Referred to Assembly Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials. Set for hearing on 4/21/21​

• This bill would repeal the Mercury Thermostat Collection Act of 2008 and recast the program, as part of the state’s hazardous waste control laws, as the Mercury Thermostat Collection Act of 2021.

AB 842 (Garcia & Gray): Solid waste: single-use plastic packaging and products (2021)

By Assemblymembers Cristina Garcia, Gray, Bloom, and Senator Eggman

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• Status:

  • 3/23/2021: Re-referred to Committee on Natural Resources. Hearing date TBD.​

•  The bill would require producers, within 6 months of the department’s adoption of regulations to implement the act, to individually, or to collectively form or join a stewardship organization that will, develop, finance, and implement a convenient and cost-effective program to source reduce, recover, and recycle single-use packaging and single-use products discarded in the state, and develop and submit to the department a stewardship plan, annual report, and budget, as prescribed.

• The bill would require the stewardship plan to include funding to support, among other things, mechanisms necessary to achieve a 75% recycling rate of single-use packaging and single-use products by 2032 and annually thereafter.

AB 881 (Lorena Gonzalez): Plastic waste: diversion: recycling: export (2021) - SUPPORT

By Assemblymembers  Lorena Gonzalez, Friedman, Cristina Garcia, Mathis, Carrillo, Stone, McCarty, and Ting, and Senators Allen, Hueso, and Wiener

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• Fact Sheet

• Status:

  • 4/12/2021: Amended and re-referred to Committee on Appropriations, hearing date TBD.​

• This bill would make the export out of the country of a mixture of plastic wastes “disposal” for purposes of the act, unless the mixture includes only certain plastics destined for separate recycling and satisfies other specified requirements, in which case that export would constitute diversion through recycling.

AB 962 (Kamlager): California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act: reusable beverage containers (2021) - SUPPORT

By Assemblymember Kamlager

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• Fact Sheet

• Status:

  • Will be heard in Assembly Committee on Natural Resources on 4/28 - hearing starts at 9 AM PT.​

• This bill would authorize, for a reusable beverage container, a processor approved by the department to handle reusable beverage containers to satisfy those operation requirements by transferring the reusable beverage container to a washer approved by the department. By creating crimes relating to reusable beverage containers, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would define “reusable beverage container” for purposes of the act to mean a beverage container that has been used to contain a beverage, for which the applicable redemption payment has been paid, and that is returned whole and intact to a recycler or other certified entity designated by the department and capable of reuse as a beverage container. The bill would provide that an empty reusable beverage container for which the applicable redemption payment has been paid and that is collected and processed unbroken for reuse as a beverage container shall continue to be eligible for all applicable payments and incentives provided in the act.

AB 1035 (Salas & Skinner): Transportation: Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Program: recycled material standards (2021)

By Assemblymembers Salas and Skinner

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• Status:

  • 4/12/2021: Passed out of the Committee on Transportation with a 15-0 vote and was re-referred to Committee on Appropriations.​

• This bill would require the department and a local agency that has jurisdiction over a street or highway, to the extent feasible and cost effective, to use advanced technologies and material recycling techniques that reduce the cost of maintaining and rehabilitating streets and highways and that exhibit reduced levels of greenhouse gas emissions through material choice and construction method.

• The bill would require, on and after January 1, 2025, a local agency that has jurisdiction over a street or highway, to the extent feasible, to apply standard specifications that allow for the use of recycled materials in streets and highways, as specified.

AB 1067 (Ting): Recycling: beverage containers (2021)

By Assemblymember Ting

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• Status:

  • Re-referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, hearing date TBA.​

• This bill would revise that beverage container recycling goal to establish beverage container recycling rate goals of 80% by 2025, 85% by 2030, and 90% by 2035. The bill would also make a conforming change.

• This bill would revise that definition of “convenience zone” to also include, for an urban area, as defined by the department, the area within a one-mile radius of a supermarket on and after January 1, 2023, and until January 1, 2024; the area within a 1.5-mile radius of a supermarket on and after January 1, 2024, and until January 1, 2025; and the area within a 2-mile radius of a supermarket on and after January 1, 2025. The bill would authorize a recycling center that is eligible to receive handling fees as of the date of the expansion of a convenience zone to remain eligible to receive handling fees regardless of whether an additional recycling center or centers locates in that convenience zone.

• The bill also would revise the act’s definition of “recycling location” by including a bag drop location, as defined, as an eligible recycling location.

• This bill would delete those inoperative and repeal dates, thereby extending the operation of the pilot project program indefinitely.

• This bill would require the department to create and fill 5 additional permanent, full-time audit positions at the department and would authorize the department to purchase data to cross-verify its list of distributors.

AB 1200 (Ting): Plant-based food packaging: cookware: hazardous chemicals (2021) - SUPPORT

By Assemblymembers Ting and Friedman

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• Status:

  • 4/7/21: Passed out of the Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials with a 6-1 vote, with 2 votes not recorded.

• This bill would prohibit, beginning January 1, 2023, any person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale in the state any food packaging that contains intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS, as defined. The bill would require a manufacturer to use the least toxic alternative when replacing PFAS chemicals.

• This bill would require, beginning January 1, 2024, a manufacturer, as defined, of cookware sold in the state that contains one or more intentionally added chemicals present on a designated list, as defined, to include a statement on the product label, as defined, in both English and Spanish, regarding the presence of those chemicals of concern in the cookware, as provided.

• The bill would require, beginning January 1, 2023, a manufacturer of this cookware to post on the internet website for the cookware a list of chemicals in the cookware that are present on the designated list, among other information. The bill would prohibit, beginning January 1, 2024, a manufacturer from making a claim, either on the cookware package or internet website for the cookware, that the cookware is free of any specific chemical if the chemical belongs to a chemical group or class identified on the designated list, unless no individual chemical from that chemical group or class is intentionally added in the cookware.

AB 1201 (Ting): Solid waste: plastic products: labeling: compostability and biodegradability (2021) - SUPPORT

By Assemblymember Ting

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• Status:

  • 4/6/2021: Re-referred to Committee on Appropriations, hearing 4/21.

• This bill would prohibit a person from selling a plastic product that is labeled with the term “compostable,” “home compostable,” or “soil biodegradable” unless the product meets specified standards and satisfies specified criteria. The bill would authorize the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to adopt regulations for plastic product labeling to ensure that plastic products labeled “compostable” or “home compostable” are clearly distinguishable from noncompostable products upon quick inspection by consumers and solid waste processing facilities.

AB 1311 (Wood): Recycling: beverage containers (2021)

By Assemblymember Wood and Senator McGuire

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• Status:

  • 4/14/2021: Passed out of the Committee on Natural Resources with a 11-0 vote. Re-referred to Committee on Appropriations, hearing date TBA.​

• The bill would require a bag drop recycling center to pay the refund value for beverage containers within a reasonable period of time, not to exceed 3 business days.

• The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2022, the department to develop and implement a process pursuant to which a certified recycling center can annually apply to the department for authorization to operate on an alternative schedule, as specified. The bill would require the department to include in its process, among other components, criteria the department shall use to authorize a certified recycling center to operate on an alternative schedule.

• The bill would provide that, until July 1, 2022, a certified recycling center or location that is not a reverse vending machine or a bag drop recycling center is additionally “open for business” if the certified recycling center or location receives written authorization from the department to operate pursuant to an appointment system during the hours of operation and the certified recycling center or location meets specified requirements.

• The bill would require the department to authorize a certified recycling center or location to operate pursuant to an appointment system only if the department determines that high customer demand, weather, or public health and safety concerns warrant the implementation of an appointment system at the certified recycling center or location, and the certified recycling center or location posts certain information.

AB 1371 (Friedman): Recycling: plastic: packaging and carryout bags (2021)

By Assemblymembers Friedman, L. Gonzalez, Ting, Bloom, Carrillo, Kalra, Quirk, and Stone, and Senators Allen, Stern, and Wiener

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• Status:

  • 4/21/2021: Passed out of the Committee on Judiciary with a 8-2 vote, with 1 vote not recorded. Re-referred to Committee on Appropriations, hearing date TBA.​

• This bill would prohibit an online retailer that sells or offers for sale and delivers purchased products in or into the state from using single-use plastic packaging that consists of shipping envelopes, cushioning, or void fill to package or transport the products, on and after January 1, 2023, for large online retailers, as defined, and on and after January 1, 2025, for small online retailers, as defined.

• The bill would prohibit a manufacturer, retailer, producer, or other distributer that sells or offers for sale and delivers purchased products in or into the state from using expanded polystyrene packaging to package or transport the products. 

AB 1454 (Bloom & O'Donnell): The California Beverage Container and Litter Reduction Act (2021)

By Assemblymembers Bloom and O'Donnell

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• Status:

  • 4/14/2021: Passed out of the Committee on Natural Resources with a 11-0 vote. Re-referred to Committee on Appropriations, hearing date TBA.​

• This bill would establish the Beverage Container Recycling Program Advisory Board, consisting of 9 members in specified categories appointed by the Director of Resources Recycling and Recovery, and would require the department to consult with the board when initiating, reviewing, or expanding policies, guidelines, or budgetary changes impacting the beverage container recycling program.

• This bill would allow the department to designate a regional convenience zone serving multiple unserved supermarket-based zones based on specified factors.

• This bill would require the refund value to be paid onsite at the time of redemption, through a voucher, or through an electronic payment within 5 business days.

• This bill would make changes to processing payments.

SB 38 (Wieckowski): Beverage Containers (2021)

By Senator Wieckowski.

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• Status:

  • Will be heard next in the Senate Committee on Appropriations on suspense.

• This bill would require distributors of beverage containers in the state to form a beverage container stewardship organization.

SB 54 (Allen): Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act (2021)

By Senators Allen, Becker, Stern, Wiener, Becker, and Gonzalez, and Assemblymembers Lorena Gonzalez, Muratsuchi, Ting,  Boerner Horvath, Carrillo, Kamlager, and Luz-Rivas.

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• Status:

  • Re-referred to Committee on Environmental Quality, hearing set for 4/26/21

• This bill would establish the Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act, which would prohibit producers of single-use, disposable packaging or single-use, disposable food service ware products from offering for sale, selling, distributing, or importing in or into the state such packaging or products that are manufactured on or after January 1, 2032, unless they are recyclable or compostable.

SB 207 (Dahle): Photovoltaic Recycling Advisory Group (2021)

By Senator Dahle

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• Status:

  • Will be heard next in the Senate Appropriations Committee on suspense.

• This bill would require the Secretary for Environmental Protection to, on or before April 1, 2022, convene the Photovoltaic Recycling Advisory Group, consisting of specified members, to review and advise the Legislature on policies pertaining to the recovery and recycling of photovoltaic panels and their components. The bill would require the advisory group to consult with relevant entities in order to develop and, on or before April 1, 2025, submit to the Legislature policy recommendations aimed at ensuring that, to the extent possible, 100% of photovoltaic panels in the state are reused or recycled at end of life in a safe and cost-effective manner.

SB 289 (Newman): Recycling: batteries & battery-embedded products (2021) - SUPPORT

By Senators Newman and Becker, and Assemblymembers Berman and Mullin

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• Status:

  • 4/12/21: Passed out of the Committee on Environmental Quality with a 5-2 vote. Amended and re-referred to Committee on Judiciary, hearing date TBA.

• The bill would enact the Battery and Battery-Embedded Product Recycling and Fire Risk Reduction Act of 2021, which would require producers, as defined, either individually or through the creation of one or more stewardship organizations, to establish a stewardship program for batteries and battery-embedded products. The bill would require the stewardship plan to include specified elements, including consultation with an advisory body, which the bill would require the department to create, a collection system for batteries and battery-embedded products with a specified minimum distribution of collection sites and a funding mechanism to provide sufficient funding for implementation of the plan. 

• The bill would prohibit a retailer or distributor from selling, distributing, offering for sale, or importing a battery or battery-embedded product in or into the state unless the producer of the battery or battery-embedded product is listed as in compliance on that list for that brand and battery or battery-embedded product, except as specified.

SB 451 (Dodd): Beverage container recycling: pilot projects (2021)

By Senator Dodd

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• Status:

  • 4/12/21: Amended and re-referred to Committee on Environmental Quality, hearing set for 4/26.

• This bill would authorize the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to establish a recycling pilot program for the collection and recycling of beverage containers. The bill would define the terms “beverage” and “beverage containers” for purposes of the pilot program to include certain beverage containers that are otherwise excluded for other purposes. The bill would make an appropriation by changing the terms and conditions under which the department is authorized to make payments from a continuously appropriated fund. The bill would require the recycling pilot program to include a requirement for a pilot project operator to submit to the department a pilot project plan with specified goals and elements, including that the pilot project operator provide the department with annual updates and a final report on or before April 1, 2026. The bill would require the department to review and approve, disapprove, or conditionally approve a pilot project operator plan within a reasonable timeframe. The bill would require the department to annually include an update on the recycling pilot program in a specified report to the Legislature. The bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2026, and would repeal them on January 1, 2027.

SB 502 (Allen): Hazardous materials: green chemistry: consumer products. (2021) - SUPPORT

By Senator Allen

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• Status:

  • Will be heard next in the Senate Committee on Appropriations on suspense.

• The bill would declare that it is the policy goal of the state to ensure the safety of consumer products sold in California through timely administrative and legislative action on consumer products and chemicals of concern in those products, particularly those products that may have disproportionate impacts on sensitive populations.

SB 605 (Eggman): Medical Device Right to Repair Act (2021) - SUPPORT

By Senator Eggman and Assemblymembers Gonzalez and Cunnigham

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• Status:

  • 4/14/2021: Passed out of the Committee on Health with a 10-0 vote, with 1 vote not recorded. Will be heard next in Senate Judiciary Committee on 4/27.

• This bill would enact the Medical Device Right to Repair Act, and would require an original manufacturer of powered medical equipment used in the treatment, monitoring, or diagnosis of a patient to provide documentation, parts, and tools used to inspect, diagnose, maintain, and repair powered medical equipment to an authorized repair provider on fair and reasonable terms, as defined.

HB 1199: Consumer Digital Repair Bill Of Rights (2021)

By Representatives Titone, Woodrow, Rodriguez

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• Status:

  • 3/25/2021: House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Postpone Indefinitely

• The bill requires a manufacturer to provide parts, embedded software, firmware, tools, or documentation, such as diagnostic, maintenance, or repair manuals, diagrams, or similar information, to independent repair providers and owners of the manufacturer's equipment to allow an independent repair provider or owner to conduct diagnostic, maintenance, or repair services.

HB 1780: Drug Take-Back Act (2021)

By Representatives Gong-Gershowitz, Howard, Cassidy, Stava-Murray, Buckner, Mussman, Avelar, and Conroy

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• Status:

  • 3/27/2021: Re-referred to Rules Committee

• Requires covered manufacturers to, no later than July 1, 2022 or 6 months after becoming a covered manufacturer, whichever is later, participate in an approved drug take-back program or have established and implemented a drug take-back program independently or as part of a group of covered manufacturers.

SB 0294:Wipes Labeling Act (2021)

By Representative Castro

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• Status:

  • 3/25/2021: Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 13, 2021

• covered entity must clearly and conspicuously label a covered product as "do not flush" in accordance with specified.

SB 0345: Carpet Stewardship Act (2021)

By Representative Bush

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• Status:

  • 4/16/2021: Re-referred to Assignments

• For all carpet sold in this State, producers shall, through a clearinghouse, implement and finance a statewide carpet stewardship program that manages the product by reducing the product's waste generation, promotes its reuse and recycling, and provides for negotiation and execution of agreements to collect, transport, process, and market the product for end-of-life carpet recycling and carpet reuse.

•  Requires the clearinghouse to be incorporated as a nonprofit.

LD 602: An Act To Prevent Pollution from Single-use Plastic Straws, Splash Sticks and Beverage Lid Plugs (2021)

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• Status:

  • 4/7/2021: Voted on, divided report

• Beginning January 1, 2022, this bill prohibits the manufacture and the sale and distribution, at retail or wholesale, of single-use drinking straws, splash sticks and beverage lid plugs made wholly or partly of plastic and prohibits food establishments and eating establishments from providing such items to customers at a point of sale or otherwise making such items available to customers.

• Food establishments and eating establishments are authorized under the bill to provide, only upon the request of a customer and only at a point of sale, single-use drinking straws, splash sticks or beverage lid plugs not made of plastic as long as they collect a fee from the customer of not less than 5 cents for each such item provided.

HD 1553: Act to Save Recycling Costs in the Commonwealth (2021)

By Representatives Michael S. Day, Ciccolo, Domb, Robinson, Lewis, Muratore, McCurty, Giannino, Sabadosa, Vitolo, Kerans, Eldridge, Lipper-Garabedian, David M. Rogers, DiDomenico, Haggerty, Robertson, Oakley, O'Connor, Comerford, John H. Rogers, Gentile, Malia, Owens

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• Would direct packaging producers to establish a producer responsibility organization (PRO) and submit a stewardship plan for how the PRO will run the program and reimburse collectors.

• It also establishes an advisory committee made up of stakeholders and allows producers to propose alternative collection programs for certain packaging.

• Similar bills: SD 1123 and SD 2263

HD 1625: Act to Save Water Systems Through the Labeling of Flushable Wipes (2021)

By Representatives Dykema, Ehrlich, Howitt, Balser, Khan, Gouveia, Kushmerek, Hawkins, Campbell, Gordon, Stanley, Oliveira, Cronin, Kelcourse, Ferguson, Timilty, Ciccolo, Giannino, Sabadosa, Vitolo, Lipper-Garabedian, Robertson, 

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• Companion bill: SD 1057

• Requires the phrase “Do Not Flush” of a size equal to at least 2% of the surface area of the principal display panel

HF 2267: Carpet Product Stewardship (2019)

By Representatives Hansen, Fischer, Becker-Finn, and Long

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• Current Status:

  • 3/20/19: Referred by Chair to Environment and Natural Resources Finance Division 

• For all carpet sold in the state, producers must, individually or through a stewardship organization, implement and finance a statewide product stewardship program that manages carpet by reducing carpet's waste generation, promoting its reuse and recycling, and providing for negotiation and execution of agreements to collect, transport, and process carpet for end-of-life recycling and reuse.

•  On and after July 1, 2021, no producer, wholesaler, or retailer may sell carpet or offer carpet for sale in the state unless the carpet's producer participates in an approved stewardship plan, either individually or through a stewardship organization.

• Press:

  • Minnesota Post, ​Why the DFL is taking on the carpet industry- 3/28/19

• Companion: SF 2300

HF 3181: Wet Wipes (2020)

By Representatives Claflin, Becker-Finn, Fischer, Hornstein, Lislegard

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• Current Status:

  • 4/14/2020: Committee report, to adopt

• No nonwoven disposable product for sale in the state may be advertised, packaged, or labeled as flushable, septic safe, or sewer safe unless it meets the definition set forth in subdivision 1.

• A nonwoven disposable product for sale in the state
  must meet the most recent INDA (Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry) code of practice for product labeling that has been approved by the commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency

• Companion: SF 3139

HF 842: Carpet stewardship (2021)

By Representative Jordan

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• Status: 

  • 2/8/2021: Introduction and first reading, referred to Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy

• A producer of carpet sold in the state must participate in the stewardship organization to implement and finance a statewide product stewardship program operated under an agency-approved product stewardship plan that manages carpet by reducing carpet's waste generation, promoting its reuse and recycling, and providing for negotiation and execution of agreements to collect, transport, and process carpet for recycling and reuse.​

SF 1171: Carpet stewardship program establishment (2021)

By Representative Weber

Companion Bill: HF 1426

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• Status: 

  • 2/18/2021: Introduction and first reading, referred to Environment and Natural Resources Policy and Legacy Finance

• Establishes a carpet stewardship program is established to reduce carpet-related waste generation by promoting the collection and recycling of discarded carpet. 

HF 914: Nonwoven disposable product labelling (2021)

By Representative Fischer

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• Status: 

  • 2/10/2021: Introduction and first reading, referred to Commerce Finance and Policy

• Require a flushability standard for wipes labeled “flushable” in addition to the “Do Not Flush” logo for non-flushable wipes.

Assembly Bill A4129: "Flushable" Wipes (2021)

By Colton, Gottfried, Simon, Steck, Cook, Dilan, Lupardo, Englebright

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• Status:

  • 2/1/2021: Referred to Consumer Affairs and Protection

• Prohibits a manufacturer from labeling or advertising a nonwoven disposable product for sale as a flushable without prior approval.

Assembly Bill A4308: Tobacco Product Waste Reduction Act (2021)

By Griffin and Gonzalez-Rojas

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• Status:

  • 2/1/2021: Referred to Health

• Assembly Version: S1278

• Prohibits the sale or offering for sale of cigarettes utilizing single-use filters and single-use electronic cigarettes.

Senate Bill S5027: Carpet Stewardship (2021)

By Senator Kavanagh

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• Status:

  • 2/22/2021: Referred to the Environmental Conservation Committee

• Establishes a carpet stewardship program; requires manufacturers to coordinate with wholesalers, retailers and installers to recycle old carpets; provides penalties for noncompliance.

Senate Bill S1185A: Packaging & Paper Products EPR (2021)

By Senators Kaminsky, Addabbo Jr., Brisport, Comrie, Hinchey, Gaughran, Gounardes, Harckham, Hoylman, Jackson, Kaplan, Krueger, Liu, May, Mayer, Myrie, Ramos, Reichlin-Melnick, Sepulveda, Serrano, and Thomas

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• Status:

  • 3/10/2021: Amended on third reading

• Establishes the extended producer responsibility act requiring covered materials and product producers to develop and implement strategies to promote recycling, reuse and recovery of packaging and paper products.

Senate Bill S5447: Solar Panel Collection Act (2021)

By Senators O'Mara

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• Status:

  • 3/5/2021: Referred to Environmental Conservation

• Enacts the "solar panel collection act" to require manufacturers of solar panels to collect such panels when they are taken out of use; requires educational outreach relating thereto; establishes collection goals therefor; requires reporting of collection efforts.

HB 2065: Relating to modernizing Oregon's recycling system (2021)

• Status:

  • 1/19/21: ​Referred to Energy and Environment with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.

• Requires producers of covered products to join producer responsibility organization unless exempt. Requires producer responsibility organization to submit program plan to Department of Environmental Quality. Requires producer responsibility organizations to reimburse local governments for certain expenses.

• Establishes Oregon Recycling System Advisory Council.

• Directs department to establish uniform statewide collection list.

• Establishes Producer Responsibility Fund and Waste Prevention and Reuse Fund.

• Prohibits sale in this state of products with deceptive or misleading claims about recyclability. 

HB 2344: Relating to labeling requirements for wipes (2021)

By Representatives Wilde, Reardon, Dembrow, Power, Leif, and Morgan

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• Status:

  • 4/19/2021: Referred to President's desk.

• Requires the phrase “Do Not Flush” displayed at a size that is equal to at least 2% of the surface area of the principal display panel and with a type size that is equal to or greater than.

HB 2365: Relating to single-use plastic food service ware (2021)

By Representative Dexter

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• Status:

  • 1/19/21: Referred to Energy and Environment

• Prohibits food vendor from using single-use plastic food service ware when selling, serving or dispensing prepared food to consumer.

HB 2592: Relating to extended producer responsibility programs (2021)

By Representatives Sollman, Dexter, Schouten, Wilde

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• Status:

  • 1/19/21: ​Referred to Energy and Environment

• Requires producers to form or join extended producer responsibility programs for packaging, food serviceware and printing and writing paper. 

• Establishes Extended Producer Responsibility Fund.

• Prohibits sale of products that make deceptive or misleading claims about recyclability. 

• Requires extended producer responsibility organization to first implement program no later than July 1, 2025. Provides that labeling and facility permitting provisions become operative July 1, 2025. Applies to covered products sold on or after July 1, 2025. 

HB 3271: Relating to modernizing Oregon's recycling system (2021)

By Representative Wilde​

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• Status:

  • 3/2/21: ​Referred to Energy and Environment with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.

• Establishes carpet stewardship program.

• Established standards for carpet sold or distributed in this state.

• Establishes carpet stewardship advisory committee.

• Establishes Carpet Stewardship Fund.

H. 142: Extended producer responsibility for packaging and paper products (2021)

By Representative Amy Sheldon

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• Status:

  • 1/27/2021: Read first time and referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources, Fish, and Wildlife

• Requires parties responsible for the production or distribution of packaging and paper products to implement or participate in a plan for the collection and management of recyclable packaging and paper products.

S. 227: Provision of personal care products by lodging establishments (2020)

By Senator Christopher Bray

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• Status:

  • 6/16/2020 Read First reading in the House and Rreferred to the House Committee on Natural Resources, Fish, and Wildlife

• This bill proposes to prohibit the provision by lodging establishments of personal use products in small plastic bottles

SB 5022: Concerning the management of certain materials to support recycling and waste and litter reduction (2021)

By Das, Rolfes, Carlyle, Kuderer, Salomon, Dhingra, Wilson, C., Keiser, Liias, Pedersen, Lovelett, Nobles, Saldaña, Stanford, Wellman, and Nguyen

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• Status:

  • 4/19/21: Senate concurred in House amendments. Passed final passage with a 31-18 vote.

• The legislature intends that the policy of the state is to ensure that by 2040 an overall recycling and reuse rate of 90 percent is achieved for plastic packaging and other packaging materials. The legislature further intends that these materials are recycled or reused through extended producer responsibility programs. It is the intent of the legislature that extended producer responsibility  programs are implemented by and for producers of plastic packaging and other material types so that the design and management of their packaging is accomplished in a manner that ensures minimal environmental impact, involves producers from design concept to end-of-life management, and incentivizes innovation and research to minimize environmental impacts.

• Companion Bill: HB 1118