NYS-5820
Increases the handling fee paid to dealers or operators of a redemption center
- Jurisdiction:
- New York
- Type:
- Deposit Return
- Last action:
- Jan 7, 2026
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Bill modifies handling fees within NY's existing deposit return scheme (beverage container redemption), directly supporting the operational mechanics of deposit-return EPR infrastructure.
Compliance Dimensions
Fees0.035 USD Per Unit — empty beverage containers (existing rate, prior to April 1, 2025); 0.06 USD Per Unit — empty beverage containers (effective April 1, 2025)
“a deposit initiator shall pay to any dealer or operator of a redemption center a handling fee of three and one-half cents for each beverage container accepted by the deposit initiator from such dealer or operator of a redemption center. Beginning April first, two thousand twenty-five, the handling fee will be six cents.”
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Full bill text
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5820 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 3, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the handling fee paid to a dealer or operator of a redemption center for the redemption of empty beverage containers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 27-1007 of the environmental 2 conservation law, as added by section 4 of part SS of chapter 59 of the 3 laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows: 4 6. In addition to the refund value of a beverage container as estab- 5 lished by section 27-1005 of this title, a deposit initiator shall pay 6 to any dealer or operator of a redemption center a handling fee of three 7 and one-half cents for each beverage container accepted by the deposit 8 initiator from such dealer or operator of a redemption center. Beginning 9 April first, two thousand twenty-five, the handling fee will be six 10 cents. Payment of the handling fee shall be as compensation for collect- 11 ing, sorting and packaging of empty beverage containers for transport 12 back to the deposit initiator or its designee. Payment of the handling 13 fee may not be conditioned on the purchase of any goods or services, nor 14 may such payment be made out of the refund value account established 15 pursuant to section 27-1012 of this title. A distributor who does not 16 initiate deposits on a type of beverage container is considered a dealer 17 only for the purpose of receiving a handling fee from a deposit initi- 18 ator. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05235-01-5
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