Bill Text: NY A06717 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits the use of post-consumer recycled high density polyethylene for beverage container packaging.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-06 - enacting clause stricken [A06717 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06717-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6717
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 15, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. CRESPO, D'URSO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          permitting the use of recyclable beverage container packaging
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3  of  section  27-1011  of  the  environmental
     2  conservation  law,  as  amended by section 1 of part PP of chapter 58 of
     3  the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
     4    3. No deposit initiator, distributor or dealer shall sell or offer for
     5  sale in this state beverage containers connected  to  each  other  by  a
     6  separate  holding  device  constructed  of  plastic [which does not: (a)
     7  decompose] unless such device decomposes by photodegradation  or  biode-
     8  gradation[;] or
     9    [(b)  comply  with minimum post-consumer recycled material content and
    10  hole diameter limitations as defined in rules and regulations promulgat-
    11  ed by the department, and is recyclable and indicates a resin  identifi-
    12  cation  code] such device is recyclable, made of at least ninety percent
    13  post-consumer recycled high density polyethylene, and does not have  any
    14  holes greater than one and three-quarters inches in diameter.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10587-01-9