Bill Text: NY S05377 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires manufacturers to meet certain standards with their packaging in New York state to reduce waste; establishes the guidelines and sets a timetable by which manufacturers must comply with these provisions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-13 - PRINT NUMBER 5377A [S05377 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S05377-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5377--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 14, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- recommitted to the Committee on Environmental Conservation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the reduction and recycling of packaging The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "environmentally sound packaging act". 3 § 2. Legislative findings and declaration. The legislature hereby 4 finds and declares that a solid waste crisis exists in New York state, 5 and that the amount of solid waste requiring disposal has continued to 6 increase. The legislature further finds that over thirty percent of 7 municipal solid waste is comprised of packaging, that the production of 8 packaging has more than doubled in the last twenty years, and that this 9 portion of the municipal solid waste stream could be significantly 10 reduced through source reduction and material changes to increase the 11 reusability, recycled content, and recyclability of such packaging. The 12 legislature further finds that the reduction of packaging waste and the 13 success of municipal recycling is dependent on greatly increasing demand 14 for post-consumer materials in the manufacturing sector, that this 15 demand is very limited at present, and attributable to a lack of incen- 16 tives for manufacturers to increase the reusability, recycled content or 17 recyclability of their packaging, with no federal or state standards 18 applied to packaging based on such attributes or the lack of same. 19 Therefore, the legislature finds and determines that there is a need to 20 reduce packaging in the solid waste stream, by requiring that all pack- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06526-02-6
