Bill Text: CA AB1489 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Solid waste: compostable covered materials.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2024-01-25 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB1489 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB1489-Enrolled.html
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Enrolled
September 14, 2023 |
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Passed
IN
Senate
September 12, 2023 |
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Passed
IN
Assembly
May 25, 2023 |
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Amended
IN
Assembly
April 26, 2023 |
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Amended
IN
Assembly
April 12, 2023 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1489
| Introduced by Assembly Member Wood |
February 17, 2023 |
An act to add Section 42057.1 to the Public Resources Code, relating to solid waste.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1489, Wood.
Solid waste: compostable covered materials.
Existing law establishes the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, which covers certain single-use packaging and plastic single-use food serviceware, as provided. As part of its comprehensive statutory scheme, the act requires the producers, as defined, of these covered materials to source reduce plastic covered material by 25%, 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.
Existing law prohibits a person from selling or offering for sale a product, as defined, that is labeled with the term “compostable”
unless the product satisfies an identified ASTM standard specification or, if applicable, another certification.
This bill would exempt products that are eligible to be labeled with the term “compostable” from the source reduction
requirements of the act.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 42057.1 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:42057.1.
(a) The source reduction requirements specified in Section 42057 shall not apply to compostable covered materials.(b) For purposes of this section, “compostable covered materials” means products that are eligible to be labeled with the
term “compostable” in accordance with Chapter 5.7 (commencing with Section 42355).
