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Assembly Bill A10948

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring state and municipal agencies to purchase compostable single use silverware

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2017-A10948 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 27 Title 30 §§27-3001 - 27-3003, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A1437
2021-2022: A3105, A7201

2017-A10948 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring state and municipal agencies to purchase compostable single use silverware; requires state and municipal agencies purchasing single use silverware to purchase single use silverware made from material that is compostable unless there is no affordable compostable product available.

2017-A10948 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10948
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 29, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   requiring  state and municipal agencies to purchase compostable single
   use silverware
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Article 27 of the environmental conservation law is amended
 by adding a new title 30 to read as follows:
                                 TITLE 30
                     COMPOSTABLE SINGLE USE SILVERWARE
 SECTION 27-3001. DEFINITIONS.
         27-3003. REQUIRED COMPOSTABLE SINGLE USE SILVERWARE.
 § 27-3001. DEFINITIONS.
   FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF  THIS TITLE, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE
 FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   1. "AFFORDABLE" MEANS PURCHASABLE FOR NOT MORE  THAN  FIFTEEN  PERCENT
 MORE THAN THE PURCHASE COST OF THE NON-COMPOSTABLE ALTERNATIVE.
   2. "AGENCY" MEANS ANY DEPARTMENT, AGENCY, BOARD, PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPO-
 RATION, PUBLIC AUTHORITY, OR COMMISSION.
   3.  "COMPOSTABLE"  MEANS  ALL  THE  MATERIALS  IN THE PRODUCT WILL (A)
 UNDERGO DEGRADATION BY BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES DURING COMPOSTING  TO  YIELD
 CARBON  DIOXIDE,  WATER,  INORGANIC  COMPOUNDS,  AND  BIOMASS  AT A RATE
 CONSISTENT WITH OTHER KNOWN COMPOSTABLE MATERIALS AND (B) LEAVE NO VISI-
 BLE, DISTINGUISHABLE OR TOXIC RESIDUE, INCLUDING NO  ADVERSE  IMPACT  ON
 THE  ABILITY  OF  COMPOSTS  TO  SUPPORT  PLANT  GROWTH ONCE THE FINISHED
 COMPOST IS PLACED IN SOIL.
   4. "MUNICIPAL" MEANS A VILLAGE, TOWN, CITY, OR COUNTY.
   5. "SINGLE USE SILVERWARE" MEANS ALL FORKS, SPOONS AND KNIVES THAT ARE
 DESIGNED FOR ONE-TIME USE.
 § 27-3003. REQUIRED COMPOSTABLE SINGLE USE SILVERWARE.
   ALL STATE AND MUNICIPAL  AGENCIES  PURCHASING  SINGLE  USE  SILVERWARE
 SHALL PURCHASE SINGLE USE SILVERWARE MADE FROM MATERIAL THAT IS COMPOST-
 ABLE UNLESS THERE IS NO AFFORDABLE COMPOSTABLE PRODUCT AVAILABLE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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