Bill Text: CA SB1332 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Solid waste: recycling and composting infrastructure.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-26 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. [SB1332 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB1332-Amended.html
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Amended
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Senate
March 26, 2020 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1332
| Introduced by Senator Allen |
February 21, 2020 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1332, as amended, Allen.
Solid waste: recycling and composting infrastructure.
The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, generally regulates the disposal, management, and recycling of solid waste.
The Sustainable Packaging for the State of California Act of 2018 prohibits a food service facility located in a state-owned facility, operating on or acting as a concessionaire on state property, or under contract to provide food service to a state agency, from dispensing prepared food using a type of food service packaging, unless the type of food service packaging is on a list that the department publishes and maintains on its internet website that contains types of approved food service packaging that are reusable, recyclable, or compostable.
Existing law makes a legislative declaration that it is the
policy goal of the state that not less than 75% of solid waste generated be source reduced, recycled, or composted by 2020.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would improve California’s statewide recycling and composting infrastructure.
This bill would require the department to adopt by January 1, 2022, regulations to develop a loan, grant, and incentive payment program to accomplish specified goals to improve California’s statewide recycling and composting infrastructure. The bill would create the California Recycling and Composting Infrastructure Fund in the State Treasury, and would require, upon appropriation, moneys in the fund to be used for these purposes.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) In 2018, China adopted its National Sword policy, which has crippled California’s recycling markets and exports. Prior to Before 2017, California exported 56 percent of the state’s potentially recyclable material to China. Collecting and recycling material has turned from a profitable business into an activity that actually costs local governments and solid waste service providers money. These costs are being
absorbed by city general funds, by solid waste collectors and processors, or by rate increases on residents for waste collection.
(b) To meet the challenges posed by China’s National Sword policy and transition California’s waste stream into a more self-sustaining system capable of handling the waste generated by California residents, the state must require manufacturers to reduce and take responsibility for single-use waste being generated and facilitate investments in the infrastructure needed to properly sort, clean, and bale the material so it can be fully recyclable or compostable.
(c) California’s commitment to recycling has already created 125,000 jobs and provides the raw materials necessary to support manufacturing businesses. Ensuring a great percentage of the material
generated in California is processed and recycled or composted in California will create even more local jobs and boost the state’s economy.
It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would improve California’s statewide recycling and composting infrastructure.
SEC. 2.
Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 42200) is added to Part 3 of Division 30 of the Public Resources Code, to read:CHAPTER 4. Recycling and Composting Infrastructure Program
42200.
(a) Before January 1, 2022, the department shall adopt regulations to develop a loan, grant, and incentive payment program and criteria to award grants or incentive payments or provide loans from the fund established in subdivision (b) to accomplish the following goals:(1) Reduce the cost to local governments and ratepayers to recycle and compost the waste generated in the state and educate residents.
(2) Reduce the cost to the state of achieving its recycling and composting goals.
(3) Develop long-term incentives to support mechanical recycling, composting, reuse, and remanufacturing infrastructure.
(4) Support programs and projects that increase the use of recycled materials in the production of fiber, plastic, and glass products and packaging.
(5) Recycle food scraps, yard trimmings, and other organic waste, recover edible food for human consumption, and increase the production and use of compost to improve the health and climate resilience of soils and food systems.
(6) Mitigate and abate the impacts of plastic pollution, resource extraction, solid waste disposal, and litter on the state’s natural environment and communities.
(b) There is hereby established in the State Treasury the California Recycling and Composting Infrastructure Fund.
(c) Upon appropriation, moneys in the fund
shall be used to fund the activities described in subdivision (a).
