Bill Text: CA AB2779 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Recycling: single-use plastic beverage container caps.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-04 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Mark Stone. [AB2779 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB2779-Amended.html
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May 25, 2018 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 2779 |
| Introduced by Assembly Members Mark Stone and Calderon (Coauthor: Assembly Member Bloom) |
February 16, 2018 |
An act to add Chapter 6.3 (commencing with Section 42380) to Part 3 of Division 30 of the Public Resources Code, relating to recycling.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2779, as amended, Mark Stone.
Recycling: single-use plastic beverage container caps.
The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, which is administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, requires every rigid plastic packaging container, as defined, sold or offered for sale in this state, to generally meet one of specified criteria.
This bill would prohibit a retailer, on and after an unspecified date, retailer from selling or offering for sale a single-use plastic beverage container with a cap that is not tethered to or contiguously affixed to the beverage container.
container on and after January 1, 2022, for beverage containers containing water. The bill would provide that these prohibitions do not apply for beverage containers manufactured by small bottlers, which the bill would define as a bottler with less than unspecified amounts of sales and employees. The bill would define terms for purposes of these provisions.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 6.3 (commencing with Section 42380) is added to Part 3 of Division 30 of the Public Resources Code, to read:CHAPTER 6.3. Plastic Beverage Container Caps
42380.
For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:(a) “Beverage” has the same meaning as in Section 14504.
(b) “Beverage container” or “container” means an individual, separate bottle, can, jar, carton, or other receptacle, however denominated, in which one liter or less of a beverage is sold, and that is constructed of plastic. “Beverage container” does not include a cup or other similar open or loosely sealed receptacle.
(b)
(c) “Retailer” means a person who sells a beverage in a beverage container to a consumer.
(c)
(d) “Single use” means intended for disposal after one use and used for serving or transporting a prepared, ready-to-consume product.
(d)“Beverage container” means an individual, separate bottle, can, jar, carton, or other receptacle, however denominated, in which one liter or less of a beverage is sold, and that is constructed of plastic. “Beverage
container” does not include a cup or other similar open or loosely sealed receptacle.
(e) “Small bottler” means a company that manufactures a beverage in a beverage container and has less than ____ dollars ($____) in annual sales and less than ____ employees.
42381.
On and after(a) The cap is tethered to the container in a manner that prevents the separation of the cap from the container when the cap is removed from the container.
(b) The cap includes an opening from which the beverage can be consumed while the cap is screwed onto or otherwise contiguously affixed to the container.
