Bill Text: CA SB619 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Flood control: County of Santa Barbara: Lower Mission

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2009-10-11 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 195, Statutes of 2009. [SB619 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB619-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 619	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Strickland

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Section 14501 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to recycling.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 619, as introduced, Strickland. Recycling.
   Existing law establishes the California Beverage Container
Recycling and Litter Reduction Act and makes certain findings and
declarations with regard to that act.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 14501 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   14501.  The Legislature finds and declares as follows:
   (a) Experience in this state and  others  
other states  demonstrates that financial incentives and
convenient return systems ensure the efficient and large-scale
recycling of beverage containers. Accordingly, it is the intent of
the Legislature to encourage increased, and more convenient, beverage
container redemption opportunities for all consumers. These
redemption opportunities shall consist of dealer and other shopping
center locations, independent and industry operated recycling
centers, curbside programs, and other recycling systems that assure
all consumers, in every region of the state, the opportunity to
return beverage containers conveniently, efficiently, and
economically.
   (b) California grocery, beer, soft drink, container manufacturing,
labor, agricultural, consumer, environmental, government, citizen,
recreational, taxpayer, and recycling groups have joined together in
calling for an innovative program to generate large-scale redemption
and recycling of beverage containers.
   (c) This division establishes a beverage container recycling goal
of 80 percent.
   (d) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that every
container type proves its own recyclability.
   (e) It is the intent of the Legislature to make redemption and
recycling convenient to consumers, and the Legislature hereby urges
cities and counties, when exercising their zoning authority, to act
favorably on the siting of multimaterial recycling centers, reverse
vending machines, mobile recycling units, or other types of recycling
opportunities, as necessary for consumer convenience, and the
overall success of litter abatement and beverage container recycling
in the state.
   (f) The purpose of this division is to create and maintain a
marketplace where it is profitable to establish sufficient recycling
centers and locations to provide consumers with convenient recycling
opportunities through the establishment of minimum refund values and
processing fees and, through the proper application of these
elements, to enhance the profitability of recycling centers,
recycling locations, and other beverage container recycling programs.

   (g) The responsibility to provide convenient, efficient, and
economical redemption opportunities rests jointly with manufacturers,
distributors, dealers, recyclers, processors, and the Department of
Conservation.
   (h) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this
division, that all empty beverage containers redeemed shall be
recycled, and that the responsibilities and regulations of the
department shall be determined and implemented in a manner that
favors the recycling of redeemed containers, as opposed to their
disposal.
   (i) Nothing in this division shall be interpreted as affecting the
current business practices of scrap dealers or recycling centers,
except that, to the extent they function as a recycling center or
processor, they shall do so in accordance with this division.
   (j) The program established by this division will contribute
significantly to the reduction of the beverage container component of
litter in this state.