Those bills are “the big game that we’ve been seeing,” said Tim Schmelzer, vice president of California state relations at the Wine Institute, an advocacy organization that represents the California wine industry. It also requires manufacturers to make such items 100 percent compostable or recyclable starting in 2030. Ben Allen from Santa Monica and Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego, the effort calls for cutting three-quarters of the waste from these single-use products in the next ten years. The Act aims to curb waste from single-use packaging and food service items like containers, forks, and stirrers that Californians use once, and then toss. Special interests and legislators instead are focusing on a set of identical bills collectively called the California Circular Economy and Pollution Reduction Act. “No one - in California or outside California - thinks that the current system in California is working.” “My hope was to reshape the recycling industry in California so that we have a system that makes it convenient for consumers,” Wieckowski said. That’s the one Wieckowski’s bill aimed to fix. The second is the home-grown death of California’s bottle recycling businesses. One is the turmoil in global recycling markets that kicked off when China decided to stop importing much of the world’s waste. Wieckowski’s bill was one of a handful aimed at addressing two major problems plaguing California’s recycling industry. But the bill failed a critical juncture after it fell four votes short of passage.
Bob Wieckowski of Fremont, the Beverage Container Recycling Act of 2020 would have required beverage distributors to design a new recycling program - and to help pay for it themselves. And one lawmaker who voted no on the bill says he might just introduce his own.Īuthored by Democratic state Sen. Even the special interests that helped kill a California Senate bill aimed at reforming beverage bottle recycling say the state needs to fix its broken system.
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