Bill Text: CA AB1659 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 1659 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Healing arts boards: inactive licenses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-09-05 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 249, Statutes of 2018. [AB1659 Detail]

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1659

Introduced by Assembly Member Low

February 17, 2017

An act relating to recycling.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1659, as introduced, Low. Food service packaging.

The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, which is administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, requires every rigid plastic packaging container, as defined, sold or offered for sale in this state, to generally meet one of specified criteria.

This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would create a recycling program for food service packaging and would make related findings and declarations.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature, in adopting this act, to reduce the amount of food service packaging that is littered and improperly disposed.

(b) All food service packaging products, regardless of the material from which they are made, have varied environmental impacts, including, but not limited to, end-of-life disposal challenges, energy use associated with manufacture and transportation, greenhouse gas emissions, raw material acquisition, or impacts on the marine environment.

(c) California is home to a number of food service packaging manufacturers that produce a variety of different products. These facilities employ thousands of Californians and are important components of the state’s economy.

(d) Manufacturers, distributors, and users of food service packaging have a shared responsibility to identify, finance, and implement solutions that are both environmentally responsible and economically sustainable for end-of-like management of food service packaging products. These solutions include, but are not limited to, enhanced material collection, sorting and recycling programs, antilitter and pollution prevention efforts, public education programs, and emerging material conversion technologies.

(e) The State of California, local governments, solid waste haulers, recyclers, and other stakeholders should work with the food service packaging industry to develop and implement programs to ensure food service packaging is managed in an environmentally sound manner.