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A1860 • 2026

Requires certain recycling centers to report information about recycling markets and contamination to DEP.

Requires certain recycling centers to report information about recycling markets and contamination to DEP.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Kennedy, James J.
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires certain recycling centers to report information about recycling markets and contamination to DEP.

Requires certain recycling centers to report information about recycling markets and contamination to DEP.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires certain recycling centers to report information about recycling markets and contamination to DEP.
  • Topic: Environment and Solid Waste Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires certain recycling centers to report information about recycling markets and contamination to DEP.
Topic:
Environment and Solid Waste
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1860

ASSEMBLY, No. 1860

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman JAMES J. KENNEDY

District 22 (Somerset and Union)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires certain recycling centers to report
information about recycling markets and contamination to DEP.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.

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An Act

concerning information about recycling markets
and contamination and supplementing P.L.1987, c.102 (C.13:1E-99.11 et seq.).

����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� a.� On or before
December 31

of each year, a recycling center that processes glass,
plastic, cardboard, or paper shall submit to the Department of Environmental
Protection, on a form and in a manner determined by the department, information
concerning recycling markets and recycling contamination, including, but not
limited to: (1) the availability, location, and cost of markets for recycled
materials; and (2) the nature and extent of contamination in the recycling
stream.

���� b.��� The department shall
hold confidential any information obtained pursuant to this section when shown
by a recycling center that the information, if made public, would divulge
competitive business information, methods, or processes entitled to protection
as trade secrets of the recycling center.

���� c.���� The department shall
notify each recycling center of the information required to be submitted
pursuant to this section, in a form and manner determined by the department.�

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill would require
recycling centers that process glass, plastic, cardboard, or paper to report
certain information about recycling markets and contamination to the Department
of Environmental Protection.� This information would include, but would not be
limited to: (1) the availability, location, and cost of markets for recycled
materials; and (2) the nature and extent of contamination in the recycling
stream.� The department would be required to keep confidential any information
that would divulge competitive business information, methods, or processes
entitled to protection as trade secrets of the recycling center.