California environmental marketing bill
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
AB 1112 dies for the session in the Senate Business and Professions Committee. The measure would have allowed manufacturers to label a product or its packaging "recyclable" only if that type of product or packaging is being recycled in over 65% of California's curbside recycling programs or is accepted for recycling wherever the product or package is sold. Currently, state law allows the "recyclable" claim on any product or package that can "conveniently" be recycled in every county with a population over 300,000