Plain English Breakdown
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Extending Payments for Recycling PET Plastic Bottles
This law extends the time that California can pay companies to recycle specific plastic bottles and sets a yearly spending limit of $35 million.
What This Bill Does
- Extends the deadline for market development payments from July 1, 2027, to July 1, 2029.
- Requires the department to set one payment rate for empty PET plastic bottles collected for recycling.
- Requires the department to set one payment rate for PET plastic processed into flakes or pellets.
- Allows the department to spend up to $35 million each year on these payments.
- Makes this law take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Who It Names or Affects
- The state agency that manages beverage container recycling funds.
- Reclaimers who collect empty plastic beverage containers.
- Product manufacturers who buy processed PET plastic from reclaimers.
Terms To Know
- Market development payment
- Money paid by the state to companies that recycle or process plastic bottles.
- PET (polyethylene terephthalate)
- A specific type of plastic used for beverage containers.
- Reclaimer
- A business or facility that collects empty beverage containers to be recycled.
Limits and Unknowns
- The law does not specify the exact dollar amount for each payment, only a total yearly limit of $35 million.
- The text states payments apply until July 1, 2029, but does not describe what happens after that date.