Solid waste: products: recycled content claims.
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- Passed Senate
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Overview
This bill expands California’s regulations on environmental marketing claims related to recycled content. It broadens the scope from plastic food containers to all products making such claims, requiring manufacturers and suppliers to provide detailed documentation proving the actual recycled content used in production. The bill also clarifies definitions, prohibits certain accounting methods, and specifies how recycled content claims must be verified, aligning with the Federal Trade Commission’s guidelines as of January 1, 2026.
Key provisions
- Expands recycled content claim regulations to all products, not just plastic food containers.
- Requires manufacturers to maintain written documentation of recycled content sources and calculations.
- Prohibits the use of accounting methods like ‘book-and-claim’ or proportional credit allocation.
- Defines ‘postconsumer’ material for the purposes of the law.
- Specifies that claimed recycled content cannot exceed the amount of third-party certified recycled content in the supplier’s overall supply stream.
- Requires documentation based on chain of custody models like segregated model, controlled blending model, or rolling average percentage.
- Clarifies that compliance with beverage container reporting requirements satisfies certain recycled content reporting obligations.
- Explicitly states that environmental marketing claims are not considered regulatory filings.
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