Bill Text: NY A05568 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires all public buildings and all parks, recreation and historic preservation sites have bins for recyclable and compostable materials.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A05568 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05568-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5568

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 16, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to amend the public buildings law and the parks, recreation and
          historic preservation law, in relation to requiring all public  build-
          ings  and  all  parks, recreation and historic preservation sites have
          bins for recyclable and compostable materials

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The public buildings law is amended by adding a new section
     2  147 to read as follows:
     3    §  147.  Bins  for  recyclable  and compostable materials.   A covered
     4  public  building  shall  establish  and  implement  a  program  for  the
     5  collection of recyclable and compostable materials that are discarded in
     6  such  building.    Such  recyclable  materials shall include, but not be
     7  limited to, metal, plastic, glass and paper. Such compostable  materials
     8  shall  include, but not be limited to, food scraps, tree and brush trim-
     9  mings, leaves, and other compostable materials. In  each  such  building
    10  there shall be installed bins for the collection of recyclable materials
    11  and  bins  for the collection of compostable materials.  Such bins shall
    12  be alongside any undesignated waste bins and any bins  for  non-recycla-
    13  ble,  non-compostable waste.   A bin designated for recyclable materials
    14  shall be regularly collected and the recyclable materials  within  recy-
    15  cled.    A  bin  designated for compostable materials shall be regularly
    16  collected and the contents within composted.
    17    § 2. Subdivision 23 of section  3.09  of  the  parks,  recreation  and
    18  historic  preservation law, as added by chapter 312 of the laws of 2017,
    19  is amended to read as follows:
    20    23. Establish and implement a program for the collection of recyclable
    21  and compostable materials that  are  discarded  in  state  parks,  state
    22  historic  sites and state recreational facilities. Such recyclable mate-
    23  rials shall include, but not be limited to, metal,  plastic,  glass  and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06537-01-3
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     1  paper.  Such compostable materials shall include, but not be limited to,
     2  food scraps, tree and brush trimmings,  leaves,  and  other  compostable
     3  materialsd  In  each  such park, historic site and recreational facility
     4  the office shall install bins for the collection of recyclable materials
     5  and bins for the collection of compostable materials. Such bins shall be
     6  alongside  any  undesignated waste bins and any bins for non-recyclable,
     7  non-compostable waste. The office shall regularly  collect  and  provide
     8  for  the recycling of the recyclable materials collected and shall regu-
     9  larly collect and provide for the composting  of  compostable  materials
    10  collected.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    12  it shall have become a law.