SB6180
Improving waste management systems, including products affecting composting systems.
Improving waste management systems, including products affecting composting systems.
Improving waste management systems, including products affecting composting systems.
Improving solid waste management outcomes.
Providing for a beverage containers deposit return program implemented by a distributor responsibility organization, if it and Ecology agree on a plan.
Improving solid waste management outcomes.
Implementing strategies to achieve higher solid waste recycling rates. (Dead)
Improving solid waste management outcomes.
Improving solid waste management outcomes.
Reducing plastic pollution.
Committee on standards to increase composting of food waste and reduce contaminants in compost.
Removing plastic carryout bags as an option for use at retail establishments; making the 8¢ charge for paper carryout bags permanent.
Creates criteria for recyclable products and packaging; prohibits “deceptive or misleading claims” about recyclability; requires increasing minimum postconsumer recycled content in plastic tubs, thermoform containers, and single-use cups.
Creates criteria for recyclable products and packaging; prohibits “deceptive or misleading claims” about recyclability; requires increasing minimum postconsumer recycled content in plastic tubs, thermoform containers, and single-use cups. (Dead)
Provides funds to help recruit or retain researchers or instructors with skills to further clean energy innovation at public academic and research institutions; provides a credit against B&O taxes for research and development spending on innovations in clean technology.
Increasing government purchases of compost products, and creating a pilot program to reimburse farming operations for purchasing and using them.
Diverting organic materials from landfills, increasing composting, and reducing food waste. (Dead)
Diverting organic materials from landfills, increasing composting, and reducing food waste.
Makes commercial greenhouses with plastic roofs as well as residential ones, and temporary growing structures with permanent walls as well as those with plastic sides, exempt from the building code.
Requires increasing amounts of recycled post consumer content in plastic packaging, in stages.
Requires more post-consumer recycled plastic in packaging. (Dead)
Makes producers responsible for the recycling, reuse, and composting of packaging and paper products for residential use, and for post-consumer recycled content in them.
Implements a low-carbon fuel standard.
Postpones the upcoming prohibition of some plastic and paper carryout bags for six months. (Dead)
Implements minimum recycled contents requirement for plastic beverage containers and other items; prohibits the sale and distribution of some polystyrene products, and establishes optional serviceware requirements. (Changed title)
– Requires increasing recycled content in plastic beverage containers.
– Reducing waste associated with non-compostable single-use food service products.
– Reducing waste associated with non-compostable single-use food service products.
– Requires minimum recycled content in plastic beverage containers.
– Bans manufacturing and distributing styrofoam containers, packing material and coolers.
– Bans manufacturing and distributing styrofoam containers, packing material and coolers.
– Relief from greenhouse gas regulations for agricultural commodities and food products with lower embedded emissions than imported equivalents.
– Bans single-use plastic straws