Recycling: waste glass product: market development payments.

Plain English Breakdown

The exact amount of market development payment has not been specified in the provided official text.

Recycling: Helping Glass Waste Be Used Again

This law gives money to companies that buy recycled glass and turn it into new products instead of sending it to a landfill.

What This Bill Does

• Creates payments for glass beverage container manufacturers who use recycled glass collected in California to make new beverage containers.
• Gives $60 million each year until January 1, 2028, from the Recycling Fund to help glass bottle makers buy more recycled glass in California.
• Allows up to $5 million a year until January 1, 2030, for payments that encourage the use of waste glass not suitable for making new bottles or fiberglass insulation.
• Provides up to $1 million each year until January 1, 2030, to help move waste glass from one place to another.

Who It Names or Affects

• Glass bottle manufacturers who buy recycled glass in California.
• Companies that make products out of waste glass not suitable for making new bottles or fiberglass insulation.
• Transportation companies that move waste glass from one place to another.

Terms To Know

Recycling Fund

A special money pot used by the state to pay refunds and fees related to recycling empty beverage containers.

By-product

Something made during a process, but not the main product. In this case, it's glass waste that can't be turned into new bottles or fiberglass insulation.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill only applies to waste glass collected in California.
• It is unclear how much money will actually be available for payments after January 1, 2030.
• The exact amount of the market development payment has not been specified.

Official Summary Text

AB 333, as amended, Alanis.
Recycling:
glass beverage containers:
waste glass product:
market development payments.
The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, a violation of which is a crime, requires a distributor of beverage containers, as defined, to pay to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery a monthly redemption payment for every beverage container sold or transferred, as provided. The act requires the department to deposit those amounts into the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund. The fund is continuously appropriated to, among other things, pay refund values and administrative fees to processors that receive empty beverage containers from recyclers.
The
Until January 1, 2028, the
act continuously appropriates $60,000,000 annually from the fund to the
department to make market development payments to glass beverage container manufacturers who purchase recycled glass collected within this state for use in manufacturing new beverage containers in this state.
This bill would require the department, subject to the availability of funds, to pay a market development payment to a person who purchases a
product, other than a beverage container, that is made with empty glass beverage containers
material produced from a by-product of glass recycling or processing that contains certain contaminants, cannot be remelted for use in glass beverage containers or fiberglass insulation, as specified, and
that would otherwise be sent to a
landfill, as specified.
landfill or be used as low grade aggregate.
The bill
would
would, until January 1, 2030,
authorize the department to expend up to
$20,000,000
$5,000,000
annually from the fund for these market development
payments.
payments and up to $1,000,000 annually to facilitate the transportation of waste glass product by waste glass product end users.
By authorizing
a new use
new uses
for continuously appropriated funds, this bill would make an appropriation.

Current Bill Text

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