Source Reduction Baseline
Pursuant to Section 42057(b) of the Public Resources Code (PRC), CalRecycle must establish a baseline for the 25-percent source reduction requirement under the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act (SB 54; Allen, Chapter 75, Statutes of 2022) for covered single-use plastic material. Pursuant to PRC Section 42067, CalRecycle is collaboratively developing the initial statewide Needs Assessment to identify the actions and resources required to implement the law successfully. As part of the initial statewide Needs Assessment, CalRecycle estimated the Source Reduction Baseline and published the following documents on the SB 54 Needs Assessment webpage. Please click the button below to access the webpage.
Additionally, an appendix to the technical report, with more detailed information on the methodology used to estimate the baseline, will be published on the CalRecycle website later this week. For access to the model developed to estimate the source reduction baseline and other spreadsheets, please make a request through the CalRecycle Public Records Portal, link is provided below.
Covered Material Categories (CMC) List
Pursuant to Section 42061 of the Public Resources Code, CalRecycle must publish and update annually a list of covered materials under the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act (SB 54; Allen, Chapter 75, Statutes of 2022). The covered material category (CMC) list was originally published on December 28, 2023. The CMC list both establishes the covered material categories themselves and sets forth CalRecycle’s determinations of which categories satisfy the requirements to be considered recyclable or eligible for being labeled compostable pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 42061(c) and (d) respectively.
The updated CMC list, which must be updated annually on January 1 each year and published on CalRecycle’s website pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 42061(e), can be found on the SB 54 Covered Material Categories webpage. Please click the button below to access the webpage.
This new publication provides an update to recyclability and compostability determinations for covered material categories. This update does not include any changes to the categories of covered material published in the July 1, 2024 updated list of CMCs.
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