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The last few days of a session can be the most important, as conference committees and substitute amendments can quickly change a bill just before passage.
Why this matters: Bills and regulations targeting metals theft, packaging, product stewardship, and other commodities and issues can directly change how your business operates. You can keep track of these and other bills targeting the industry on ISRI's State Resources and Tracking Pages.
Materials Theft Legislators in Kansas and Texas have passed several changes to their materials theft laws. ISRI's State Metals Theft Law Database and individual state summaries have been updated to reflect these and other changes passed this year:
Auxiliary Containers: Following recent media focus on plastics and New York's passage of AB 2008 with a ban on all non-exempt "plastic carryout bags" and authorization of local $0.05 fees on paper bags, several states have jumped in with their own restrictions on "single-use" bags.
However, other states continue to pass legislation prohibiting such restrictions at the local level.
On a slightly different note, Washington HB 1569 prohibits plastic products from being labeled "biodegradable," "degradable," "decomposable," "oxo-degradable," or similar terms (other than biodegradable mulch film), and requires products labeled as "compostable" to meet ASTM specifications and labeling requirements, including specific rules for plastic food service and plastic film products.
Extended Producer Responsibility As with auxiliary container legislation, recent media focus on plastics has given new life to bills targeting packaging and printed materials for an extended producer responsibility (EPR) model program. While none of the bills passed directly create an EPR program for packaging, Maine, Washington, and Hawaii have all passed legislation that calls for such legislation to be proposed in future sessions, with Maine LD 1431 being the most direct.
ISRI members need to be involved with their policymakers on the federal, state, and local levels to ensure that the scrap recycling industry can continue to operate without excessive statutory and regulatory burdens.
If you'd like to find out what changes could impact your company, visit ISRI's State Policy page or contact Danielle Waterfield if you have any questions about the system or legislation impacting your state. ReMA has also added live legislative and regulatory reports to the State Resources and Tracking pages to make keeping up-to-date in your state easier.
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