AB 1793 (Quirk): Aquatic Toxicity Testing (2022) - NSAC Sponsored

By Assemblymember Quirk

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• Status:

  • 6/15: Passed out of the Senate Environmental Quality Committee with a 7-0 vote. It will be heard next on the Senate Appropriations Committee   

• Complete this form to register your support!

• Senate Environmental Quality Committee Hearing, 6-15-2022 

• "The Aquatox Paradox" blog post by Smarter Sorting

• This bill would require the department, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature in the Budget Act of 2022 that implements a proposal to review the department’s hazardous waste criteria, and as part of the department’s comprehensive evaluation of its criteria and guidelines for the identification of hazardous wastes and extremely hazardous wastes, to review its acute toxicity criterion, as provided.  The bill would require the department, once the review is completed, to develop recommendations on next steps to consider related to the aquatic toxicity criterion, as specified, and incorporate them into the department’s state hazardous waste management plan.

AB 1894 (L. Rivas): Cannabis Vape Labeling for Proper Disposal Act (2022) - NSAC Sponsored

By Assemblymembers Luz Rivas, Bennett, and Carrillo

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• Status:

  • 6/27: Passed out of the Senate Business and Professions Committee with a 14-0 vote. It will be heard next in the Senate Appropriations Committee

  • Complete this form to register your support!

  • Assembly Business And Professions Analysis

  • Assembly Business and Professions Committee Hearing Recording, 4/26/22

  • This bill would require the package and label of, and the advertisement and marketing of, an integrated cannabis vaporizer to prominently display a specified message to properly dispose of an integrated cannabis vaporizer as household hazardous waste. The bill would also prohibit the package, label, advertisement, and marketing from indicating that an integrated cannabis vaporizer is disposable or implying that it may be thrown in the trash or recycling streams.

AB 2208 (Kalra & Becker): Fluorescent Lamps (2022) - NSAC Sponsored

By Assemblymember Kalra and Senator Becker

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• Status:

  • 6/8/22: Passed out of the Senate Environmental Quality Committee with a 4-1 vote. It will be heard next on the Senate Floor.

• This bill would phase out the sale of mercury-containing compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) by 2024 and linear fluorescent lamps (LFLs) in 2025 in California.

• Fact Sheet

• Senate Environmental Quality Committee Hearing, 6/8/22

• Assembly Floor Analysis

• Assembly ESTM Committee Hearing Recording, 4/26/22

• Assembly ESTM Analysis

• "What Happens to the Mercury in Your Fluorescent Lamps?" Blog by CLASP

• Reasons why LED Manufacturers Should Support AB 2208 & How

• Complete this form to register your support!

AB 661 (Bennett): Recycling: materials (Two-Year Bill) - SUPPORT

By Assemblymember Bennett

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• Status:

  • 6/29: Passed out of the Senate Environmental Quality Committee on with a 5-2 vote. It will be heard next in the Senate Appropriations Committee  

• Would require a state agency, if fitness and quality are equal, to purchase recycled products whenever recycled products are available at no more than 10% greater total cost than nonrecycled products. 

AB 1067 (Ting): Beverage containers (Two-Year Bill)

By Assemblymember Ting

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• Status:

  • It will be heard next in the Senate Appropriations Committee  

• Would require the department to conduct a study inquiring whether the $100 per day payment to the department provides sufficient inducement for dealers to meet the standards for redemption. Would require the department to submit to the Legislature a report regarding the study by July 1, 2023.

AB 1369 (Bennett): Buy Clean California Act Expansion (Two-Year Bill) - SUPPORT

By Assemblymember Bennett

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• Status:

  • Will be heard next in the Senate Appropriations Committee  

• Would revise the definition of “eligible materials” to delete mineral wool board insulation and additionally include gypsum board, insulation, carpet and carpet tiles, and ceiling tiles. The bill would also require the department, by January 1, 2024, to establish and publish a maximum acceptable global warming potential for each category of eligible materials, set at the industry average of product-specific global warming potential emissions for those materials, expressed as specified.

AB 1817 (Ting & C. Garcia): Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Textiles  (2022) - SUPPORT

By Assemblymembers Ting, C. Garcia, Bloom, Friedman, and Stone, and Senator Stern

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• Status:

  • 6/29: Passed out of the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality with a 5-1 vote, with 1 vote not recorded. It will be heard next on the Senate Floor.

• This bill would prohibit, beginning January 1, 2025, any person from manufacturing, distributing, selling, or offering for sale in the state any textile articles that contain regulated PFAS, and requires a manufacturer to use the least toxic alternative when replacing regulated PFAS in textile articles to comply with these provisions. he bill would require a manufacturer of a textile article that contains regulated PFAS to provide persons that offer the product for sale or distribution in the state with a certificate of compliance stating that the textile article is in compliance with these provisions and does not contain any regulated PFAS.

AB 2026 (Friedman): Shift to sustainable e-commerce packaging (2022) - SUPPORT

By Assemblymembers Friedman, Bennett, Bloom, Kalra, L. Rivas, Stone, Ting, and Quirk and Senators Stern and Wiener

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• Status:

  • 6/28: Passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee with a 9-1 vote, with 1 vote not recorded. It will be heard next in the Senate Appropriations Committee  

• Would require an e-commerce shipper, as defined, that ships purchased products in or into the state to reduce from its 2022 calendar year levels the total weight and number of units of single-use plastic shipping envelopes, cushioning, nd void fill it uses to ship or transport the products, by no less than unspecified percentages on or before January 1, 2030, and on or before January 1, 2035. 

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

AB 2247 (Bloom): PFAS Products Disclosure (2022) - SUPPORT

By Assemblymembers Bloom and Ting, and Senator Allen

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• Status:

  • 6/22: Passed out of the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality with a 5-2 vote. Will be heard next in the Senate Appropriations Committee  

• Would require the Department of Toxic Substances Control to work with the Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse to establish, on or before January 1, 2025, a publicly accessible reporting platform to collect information about PFAS and products or product components containing intentionally added PFAS, as defined, being sold, offered for sale, distributed, or offered for promotional purposes in, or imported into, the state.

• Would require, on or before July 1, 2025, and annually thereafter, a manufacturer, as defined, of PFAS or a product or a product component containing intentionally added PFAS that is sold, offered for sale, distributed, or offered for promotional purposes in, or imported into, the state to register the PFAS or the product or product component containing intentionally added PFAS, and specified other information, on the publicly accessible reporting platform.

AB 2440 (Irwin): Responsible Battery Recycling Act of 2022 (2022) - SUPPORT

By Assemblymembers Irwin, Lee, Mullin, Petrie-Norris, Stone, Ting, and Wicks, and Senators Newman, Archuleta, Becker, Eggman, Wieckowski, and Wiener

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• Status:

  • 6/28: Passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee with a 9-1 vote, with 1 vote not recorded. It will be heard next in the Senate Appropriations Committee  

• The bill would enact the Battery and Battery-Embedded Product Recycling and Fire Risk Reduction Act of 2022, which would prohibit a person from knowingly disposing of a lithium-ion battery in a container or receptacle that is intended for the collection of solid waste or recyclable materials, unless the container or receptacle is designated for the collection of batteries for recycling, as provided.

AB 2771 (Friedman): PFAS in Cosmetics (2022) - SUPPORT

By Assemblymembers Friedman and Muratsuchi, and Senator Skinner

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• Status:

  • 6/22: Passed out of the Senate Health Committee on with a 8-1 vote, with 2 votes not recorded. It will be heard next on the Senate Floor

• Would prohibit, beginning January 1, 2025, a person or entity from manufacturing, selling, delivering, holding, or offering for sale in commerce any cosmetic product that contains intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances PFAS, as defined. 

AB 2779 (Irwin): Canned Wine & Distilled Spirits (2022) - SUPPORT

By Assemblymember Irwin

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• Status:

  • Will be heard next in the Senate Appropriations Committee    

• The bill would  revise this definition of beverage to include wine, or wine from which alcohol has been removed, sold in an aluminum beverage container and distilled spirits sold in an aluminum beverage container. 

AB 2784 (Ting): Postconsumer Thermoform Recycled Plastic (2022)

By Assemblymembers Ting and Irwin, and Senator Skinner

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• Status:

  • 6/28: Passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee with a 8-1 vote, with 2 votes not recorded. It will be heard next in the Senate Appropriations Committee  

• This bill, commencing January 1, 2025, would require the total thermoform plastic containers sold or imported by a food or beverage producer, as defined, to, on average, contain specified amounts of postconsumer thermoform recycled plastic, as defined, per year pursuant to a tiered plan that would require the total thermoform plastic containers to contain, on average, and depending on the recycling rate, no less than 20% or 30% postconsumer recycled plastic per year on and after July 1, 2030.

SB 38 (Wieckowski): Beverage Containers (2021-2022) - Two-Year Bill

By Senator Wieckowski

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• Status:

  • 6/27: Passed out of the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources on with a 10-0 vote, with 1 vote not recorded. It will be heard next in the Assembly Appropriations Committee   

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SB 54 (Allen): Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act (2021-2022) - SIGNED INTO LAW 6/30/2022

By Senators Allen, Becker, Stern, Wiener, Becker, Gonzalez, and Kamlager and and Assemblymembers  Muratsuchi, Friedman, Ting,  Boerner Horvath, Carrillo, and L. Rivas.

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• Factsheet

• ​NSAC Support Letter

• Environmental Justice Provisions

• Assembly Appropriations Hearing, 6/29

• Assembly Natural Resources Hearing Recording, 6/28

• Press:

  • The art of the plastics deal, Politico 6/28

  • Deal is close on recycling California’s plastic trash, CalMatters 6/28

  • Editorial: California has a chance to lead the nation on cutting plastic trash. If we don’t blow it, LA Times 6/27/22

  • Clock ticking for contentious California EPR bill to avert plastics ballot measure, waste Dive 6/24/22

  • Can California Turn The Tide Against Single-Use Plastic?, Forbes 6/23/22

  • Big fight brewing over California ballot measure to reduce single-use plastics, LA Times 4/17/22

• Would establish the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act

• As part of its comprehensive statutory scheme, the bill would require the producers, as defined, of these covered materials to source reduce plastic covered material, to ensure that covered material offered for sale, distributed, or imported in or into the state on or after January 1, 2032, is recyclable or compostable, and to ensure that plastic covered material offered for sale, distributed, or imported in or into the state meets specified recycling rates.

• In particular, the bill would require not less than 65% of plastic covered material to be recycled on and after January 1, 2032, and would authorize the department to increase or decrease the specified recycling rates in certain circumstances. 

SB 502 (Allen): Hazardous materials: green chemistry: consumer products. (2021-2022) - SUPPORT (Two-Year Bill)

By Senator Allen 

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• Status:

  • 6/14: Passed out of the Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee with a 9-0 vote. It will be heard next in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

•  Would authorize the department to issue a formal request for information from product manufacturers, as defined, and would require a product manufacturer to provide to the department data and information on the ingredients and use of a consumer product upon the department’s request within a specified timeframe, including, among other specified data and information, information on ingredient chemical identity, concentration, and functional us

• 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 1013 (Atkins): Adding Wine and Distilled Spirits in CA's Bottle Bill Program (2022)

By Senator Atkins & Assemblymember Ting

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• Status:

  • 6/27: Passed out of the Assembly Natural Resources Committee on with a 10-0 vote, with 1 vote not recorded. Referred to the Assembly Appropriations Committee with the recommendation to be added to the consent calendar. 

• The bills would add wine and distilled spirits to the California Bottle Bill program.

• Senator Atkins Press Release, 5/25/2022

SB 1215 (Newman): Electronic Waste Recycling Act of 2003 (2022) - SUPPORT

By Senators Newman, Archuleta, Becker, Eggman, Wieckowski, and Wiener and Assemblymembers Irwin, Lee, Mullin, Petrie-Norris, Stone, Ting, and Wicks

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• Status:

  • 6/27: Passed out of the Assembly Natural Resources Committee on with a 9-1 vote, with 1 vote not recorded. It will be heard next in the Assembly Appropriations Committee   

•  This bill would, among other things, expand the definition of “covered electronic device” to include a “covered battery-embedded product,” as defined, thereby expanding the scope of the act to include covered battery-embedded products, as provided. The bill would require a consumer, on and after January 1, 2026, to pay a covered electronic waste recycling fee of an undetermined amount upon the purchase of a new or refurbished covered battery-embedded product.

SB 1255 (Portantino): Dishwasher Grant Program for Waste Reduction in K–12 Schools and Community Colleges (2022) - SUPPORT

By Senator Portantino

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• Status:

  • 6/29: Passed out of the the Assembly Committee on Education with a 7-0 vote. It will be heard next in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

• This bill would establish the Dishwasher Grant Program for Waste Reduction in K–12 Schools and Community Colleges to be administered by the State Department of Education to provide grants to school districts, charter schools, and community college districts for the purchase and installation of commercial dishwashers at the schoolsites and campuses, as specified. The bill would require the department to award grants of up to $40,000 per kitchen of a school or campus of an applicant district, as specified. 

SB 1256 (Wieckowski): Disposable Propane Cylinders (2022) - SUPPORT

By Senator Wieckowski

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• Status:

  • 6/28: Passed out of the Assembly Judiciary Committee with a 9-2 vote. It will be heard next on the Assembly Floor.

• This bill would, on and after January 1, 2028, prohibit the sale of disposable propane cylinders, as defined, and would make the violation of this provision subject to specified civil penalties. The bill would authorize a city attorney or county counsel to impose these civil penalties, as provided.

HB 5142: Gas Cylinder Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) - SIGNED INTO LAW 5-10-2022

By Representatives Gresko, Horn, Winkler, Michel, Elliott, Reyes, Parker, Palm, Bolinsky, Hampton, Butler, Genga, Anwar, Buckbee

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• Requires producers to create a product stewardship program for gas cylinders greater than .5 lbs but not exceeding 50 lbs.

HB 4356 (Gabel): Carpet Stewardship Act

By Representatives Gabel, Welch, Hernandez, Rohr, Gong-Gershowitz, Didech, Ramirez, Avelar, Mah, Guzzardi, Mayfield, Walker, Stava-Murray, Croke, Ness, Yingling, Gonzalez, Mason, Howard, Ammons, Willis, Harper, Carroll, Ford, and Slaughter

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• Status:

  •     3/4/2022: Re-referred to Rules Committee

• Provides that 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 reutilization and recovery, and provides for negotiation and execution of agreements to collect, transport, process, and market the product for end-of-life carpet recovery and carpet reutilization. Requires the clearinghouse to be incorporated as a nonprofit.

• Establishes requirements for State procurement of carpet with post-consumer recovered content.

HB 700 (Love): Truth in Labeling

By Delegates Love, Barve, Feldmark, Foley, Lehman, Palakovich Carr, Pena-Melnyk, Ruth, Solomon, Stein, Stewart, Terrasa

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• Status:

  • 2/18/2022: Hearing in the House Environment and Transportation Committee starting at 8 AM EST​

• Altering certain plastic resin labeling requirements for rigid plastic containers and plastic bottles; prohibiting the display of a certain symbol on rigid plastic containers and plastic bottles if the containers and bottles do not meet certain requirements; prohibiting a person from making certain environmental marketing claims; prohibiting a person from offering for sale, selling, distributing, or importing into the State any product or packaging labeled with or depicting certain environmental marketing claims; etc.

SB S5027C (Kavanagh): Carpet Collection Program

By Senator Kavanagh, Biaggi, Krueger, and May

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• Status:

  • Passed out of the Senate and Assembly and is on the Governor's desk​

• Requires carpet producers to either individually or collectively submit a plan to the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) outlining the establishment of a carpet collection program by December 31, 2023 

• Require the plan to describe how the program will provide for collection of carpet, in a manner convenient and free of cost to consumers and carpet installers

• Also establishes recycling rate goals, and a 13-member Stewardship Advisory Board comprised of a mix of carpet manufacturers, recyclers and consumer organizations, to make recommendations to DEC regarding carpet collection plans

• Requires carpet manufacturers to affix labels providing producer name and contact information and material composition and construction information

• Prohibits the use of PFAS substances and establishes minimum post-consumer content
  requirements

SB 1278 (Krueger): Tobacco Waste Reduction Act

By Senators Krueger, Biaggi, and Kaminsky

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• Status:

  • 1/5/2022: Referred to Senate Health Committee​

• Enacts the tobacco product waste reduction act prohibiting the sale or offering for sale of cigarettes utilizing single-use filters and single-use electronic cigarettes.

H 500 (Sheldon): Mercury Lamps - SIGNED INTO LAW 5/19/2022

By Representative Sheldon

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• ​Seeks to phase-out all general purpose fluorescent lamps, including CFLs (screw-base and pin-base), as well as linear (and U-bend) fluorescent. Special purpose fluorescent and UV lamps are excluded.

HB 5697 (Das & Rolfes): RENEW Act - Packaging & Paper Products EPR

By Representatives Das, Rolfes, Kuderer, Lovelett, Lovick, Nguyen, Pedersen, Saldaña, Stanford

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• Status

  • 2/3: Referred to Ways & Means​

• Fact Sheet

• The bill would create a coordinated, transparent statewide system for residential recycling that is funded by the producers of packaging and paper products (PPP); residents would no longer have to pay for recycling and local governments could seek reimbursement for their recycling services.