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However, that list is not exhaustive. To learn more about these and other bills visit ISRI's State Legislative Tracking System. Or contact Danielle Waterfield or Justin Short if you have any questions about the system or bills impacting your state. The state metals theft summaries and links to state laws impacting recyclers on the State Specific Resources page are also kept updated, so be sure to check the requirements in your state.
Colorado, New Mexico, Tennessee, and Utah have all passed amendments to their metals theft laws; these have already been added to ISRI's state metals theft law summaries and the metals theft law database. In short:
Tennessee recyclers were also successful in amending the definition of "liable party" in Tennessee's Hazardous Waste Management Act of 1983 to exempt any person excluded from liability under SREA with the passage of SB 2228, and in clarifying that a motor vehicle dealer's license is not needed to sell a non-repairable vehicle as scrap to a licensed dismantler, scrap metal dealer, or processor with the passage of HB 2473.
Illinois HB 6321 would effectively hijack the R2 Standard by barring electronics recycling accreditation organizations from taking "negative action" against recyclers or other parties that place "CRT glass in storage cells for future retrieval." ReMA submitted comments on proposed regulatory changes to the Illinois electronics recycling program last year expressing disapproval of this "storage" scheme as essentially evasion of recycling responsibility and opposes the passage of this bill. On May 12 the bill passed the Senate Environment and Conservation Committee and was scheduled to be considered on the Senate floor.
In contrast, Michigan SB 507 represents the result of years of discussions between the recycling industry and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality on how best to develop a system to track recycling and develop a more certain statewide recycling rate. The final bill signing was attended by the Michigan Chapter leadership, and will require a recycling establishment to register annually by July 1 and report the amount of each category of reportable recyclable material received by and the amount shipped from the recycling establishment for each fiscal year. The definitions of "recycling establishment" and "reportable recyclable materials" include important exemptions that impact many recyclers, so be sure to check if your company is excluded.