Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not provide details on what constitutes a 'nonsubstantive change'.

Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act

AB-1330 is a bill that makes minor changes to existing laws about reducing plastic waste from single-use packaging and food service items.

What This Bill Does

• Makes a nonsubstantive change to an existing law on how producers of certain plastics must reduce their use of these materials.

Who It Names or Affects

• Companies that produce single-use plastics for packaging and food service items

Terms To Know

Source reduction

Making products or their packaging with less material to reduce waste.

Covered material

Specific types of single-use plastic items that the law applies to, like food containers and drink cups.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill did not pass into law because it died at the governor's desk on February 2, 2026.
• It is unclear what specific changes were made since they are described as nonsubstantive.

Official Summary Text

AB 1330, as introduced, Nguyen.
Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act.
Existing law establishes the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, which covers certain single-use packaging and plastic single-use food service ware, as provided. Existing law requires producers of covered material sold, offered for sale, imported, or distributed in the state to achieve specified goals with respect to the materials for which they are the producers, including that all plastic covered material be source reduced pursuant to specified requirements, as provided.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that goal.

Current Bill Text

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