Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act: California Plastic Pollution Mitigation Fund.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary text does not provide specific details on how much money will be collected or the exact requirements for expenditures from the fund.

California Plastic Pollution Mitigation Fund Act

This act establishes a fund that collects fees from producers of single-use plastics and allocates money for programs aimed at reducing the environmental impact of plastic pollution.

What This Bill Does

• Establishes the California Plastic Pollution Mitigation Fund until January 1, 2037.
• Requires 60% of the fund to be used for monitoring and reducing public health and environmental justice impacts related to plastics.
• Allocates 40% of the fund to monitor and reduce the impact of plastics on wildlife and human health.
• Prioritizes funding for programs that benefit communities most affected by plastic pollution and provide multiple benefits.
• Expands eligibility for grants from the fund.

Who It Names or Affects

• Producers of single-use plastics who will pay fees into the fund.
• Communities most affected by plastic pollution, which will benefit from funded programs and projects.
• Environmental agencies that will implement grant programs using funds from the mitigation fund.

Terms To Know

Plastic Pollution

The harmful effects of plastic waste on the environment and human health.

Environmental Justice

The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify how much money will be collected by the fund.
• The bill's effectiveness depends on future appropriations by the Legislature.
• It does not address plastic pollution beyond California’s borders.

Official Summary Text

SB 1180, as amended, Allen.
Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act: California Plastic Pollution Mitigation Fund.
Existing law, the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act (act), regulates certain single-use packaging and plastic single-use food service ware, as provided. As part of its comprehensive statutory scheme, the act requires producers of covered materials to reduce and recycle covered plastic material and to ensure that covered materials that are offered for sale, distributed, or imported in or into the state on or after January 1, 2032, are recyclable or compostable, as provided.
The act establishes, until January 1, 2037, the California Plastic Pollution Mitigation Fund, which consists of all environmental mitigation surcharges, interest, penalties, and other amounts collected pursuant to the act, as provided. The act requires, upon appropriation by the Legislature, that 60% of the moneys in the fund be expended
to monitor and reduce the historical and current environmental justice and public health impacts of plastics, and that 40% of the moneys in the fund be expended to monitor and reduce the environmental impacts of plastics on terrestrial, aquatic, and marine life and human health.
This bill would, among other things, require each expenditure made upon appropriation from the fund to comply with specified requirements, including, among others, prioritizing
programs and projects
programs, projects, and initiatives
that benefit communities most burdened by the impacts of plastic pollution and that provide multiple benefits. The bill would require each of those expenditures to achieve one or more of specified purposes, including, among others,
catalyzing
sustained
mitigation of the adverse health impacts of plastics,
creating or accelerating a transformative shift away from
supporting a reduction in
plastic production, use, and disposal, and supporting research, data collection, and monitoring activities, as specified. The bill would require each department, agency, or entity implementing a grant program funded by the fund to take specified actions, such as providing technical assistance and using a single standardized, simplified application across all of those entities. The bill would require reimbursement of a grantee’s or subgrantee’s indirect costs by applying one of 4 enumerated rates. The bill would authorize moneys from the fund to be expended on implementing the bill and would prohibit moneys from the fund from being expended
on specified purposes. The bill would expand the entities eligible to receive grants from the fund, as specified.
The
This
bill would require the Secretary for Environmental Protection to annually publish a list of all
program and project
program, project, and initiative
expenditures made pursuant to the fund, as specified.

Current Bill Text

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