Recycling: market development payments: polyethylene terephthalate plastic.
Passed both chambers: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Passed both chambers
- Started in
- Assembly
- Sponsor
- 1
- Latest action
- Aug 25, 2026
What it does
The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act requires a distributor of beverage containers to pay to the department a redemption payment for every beverage container sold or offered for sale, as provided. The act requires the department to deposit those amounts into the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund. The act requires the fund to be continuously appropriated to the department for specified purposes, including, among other things, to pay refund values, administrative fees, and processing payments associated with the collection and recycling of empty beverage containers. Until July, 1, 2027, the act authorizes the department to pay a market development…
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While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money in California.