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- Referred to environmental conservation
- Referred to environmental conservation
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Establishes beverage container recycling assistance grants
In Assembly Committee · Environmental Conservation · Sponsor Adriano Espaillat
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Title of bill
An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to establishing beverage container recycling assistance grants
Purpose or general idea of bill
To provide funding to assist with recycling duties under the returnable container act.
Summary of specific provisions
Creates a new section 27-1016 of the Environmental Conservation Law which would authorize the use of funding from the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) for grants to municipalities and not-for-profit organizations to support costs associated with container recycling equipment and/or the acquisition or rehabilitation of real property or structures related to the collecting, sorting, and packaging of empty containers. This 'funding would be available upon expansion of the bottle bill and EPF as provided under Assembly bill A.2517.
Justification
Since grocery stores and supermarkets are required by law to store and handle all recyclable bottles, storage rooms where food is kept are used to hold these items. In many cases this leads to unsanitary conditions. This fund will lighten the load placed on these businesses by providing financial assistance for the handling of the collected recyclable items in a timely fashion.
Prior legislative history
2003/04 A7509; 2007/08 A4599 referred to environmental conservation
Fiscal implications
To be determined
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the same date as a chapter of the laws of 2005 amending the environmental conservation law and the state finance law relating to returnable beverage containers as proposed in legislative bill numbers S.1290/A.2517, takes effect.
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