Bill Text: HI HB87 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Plastic Bottles.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-12-11 - Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. [HB87 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-HB87-Amended.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO PLASTIC BOTTLES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that single-use plastic bottles are a threat to the State's oceans and vulnerable marine ecosystems. Each year, more than 15,000,000 metric tons of plastic enter the world's oceans. Experts predict that by 2050, the amount of plastic in the ocean will outweigh fish, unless significant changes are made. The need for significant change in Hawaii was underscored in 2020, when the United States Environmental Protection Agency found that several of the State's beaches are "impaired by trash", with the majority of the pollutants comprising single-use plastics.
Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to prohibit the retail sale or offer for retail sale in the State of single-use plastic bottles designed to hold less than two liters of bottled water for oral consumption, with certain exceptions.
SECTION 2. Section 342H-42, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"[[]§342H-42[]]
Prohibition. (a) On or after January 1, 1992, no person
shall manufacture, distribute, sell, or expose for sale in this State any
plastic bottle or rigid plastic container unless the product has a label
indicating the plastic resin used to produce the plastic bottle or rigid
plastic container. The label shall
consist of a number placed within a triangle of arrows and letters placed below
the triangle. The triangle shall be
equilateral, formed by three arrows curved at their midpoints and depicting a
clockwise path around the code number.
The numbers and letters used shall be as follows:
(1) For polyethylene terephthalate, the letters "PETE" and the number 1;
(2) For high density polyethylene, the letters "HDPE" and the number 2;
(3) For vinyl, the letter "V" and the number 3;
(4) For low density polyethylene, the letters "LDPE" and the number 4;
(5) For polypropylene, the letters "PP" and the number 5;
(6) For polystyrene, the letters "PS" and the number 6; and
(7) For any other, the letters "OTHER" and the number 7.
(b) On or after January 1, 2024, no person shall
sell at retail or offer for retail sale in the State any single-use plastic
bottle designed to hold less than two liters of bottled water for oral consumption;
provided that plastic bottles containing bottled water needed for emergency
response and public health and safety shall be exempt from this subsection."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 3000.
Report Title:
Plastic Bottles; Single-use Plastics; Bottled Water; Prohibition
Description:
Effective 1/1/2024, prohibits the retail sale or offer for retail sale of single-use plastic bottles designed to hold less than two liters of bottled water for oral consumption, with certain exceptions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
