Bill Text: NY S06195 | 2017-2018 | 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 (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-26 - referred to environmental conservation [S06195 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6195
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 11, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed 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 7 of part SS of chapter 59 of
     3  the laws of 2009, 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 decompose
     7  by photodegradation or biodegradation or which is not made of  at  least
     8  90  percent  post-consumer recycled high density polyethylene and has no
     9  hole greater than one and three quarters inches in diameter.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11680-01-7