Beverage containers: recycling: glass: quality incentive payments.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Overview
This bill allows the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to provide quality incentive payments to recycling programs for empty glass beverage containers. These payments are intended to improve the quality of recycled glass and encourage its use in manufacturing other products, such as fiberglass insulation. Specifically, the bill authorizes payments for glass collected color-sorted or mixed-sorted, as long as it’s substantially free from contamination and used for non-beverage glass products.
Key provisions
- Authorizes quality incentive payments for empty glass beverage containers.
- Payments can be made to curbside recycling programs or certified entities.
- Payments are capped at $60 per ton for color-sorted glass and $30 per ton for glass used in non-beverage products.
- Allows for payments for glass collected mixed-sorted and subsequently color-sorted.
- Provides for a supplemental payment of up to $30 per ton for glass used by manufacturers of fiberglass insulation.
- Establishes requirements for glass container quality, including substantial freedom from contamination.
- Requires recycling programs to make records available for review.
- Continues an annual appropriation of up to $15 million for these incentive payments.
Who is affected
- Beverage Distributors
- Recycling Programs (curbside and drop-off)
- Manufacturers of Glass Products
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