Solid waste: Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act.

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 303 Introduced by Senator Allen February 02, 2023 An act relating to solid waste. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 303, as introduced, Allen. Solid waste: 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. As part of its comprehensive statutory scheme, the act requires the producers, as defined, of these covered materials to source reduce plastic covered material, to ensure that covered material offered for sale, distributed, or imported in or into the state on or after January 1, 2032, is recyclable or compostable, and to ensure that plastic covered material offered for sale, distributed, or imported in or into the state meets specified recycling rates. This bill would state the Legislature’s intent to enact future legislation relating to the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act. Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill Text The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation relating to the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act.