Section § 14500

Explanation

这项法律被称为《加州饮料容器回收和垃圾减量法案》。它旨在管理饮料容器的回收并减少垃圾。

本部应被称为并可引用为《加州饮料容器回收和垃圾减量法案》。

Section § 14501

Explanation

这项法律强调了在加州回收饮料容器的重要性,通过建立一个让消费者易于回收的系统。它发现财政激励和便捷的回收系统有助于高效回收。该法律设定了80%的饮料容器回收目标,并坚持每种容器类型都应可回收。通过鼓励地方政府支持回收站点,该法律旨在减少垃圾并促进环保意识。

制造商、分销商、经销商、回收商以及政府实体共同承担提供便捷回收选择的责任。该法规还确保回收的容器得到再循环,而不是被丢弃。最后,回收中心的现有业务实践不受影响,但当其履行回收职能时,必须遵守本法律。

The Legislature finds and declares as follows:
(a)CA 公共资源 Code § 14501(a) Experience in this state and others demonstrates that financial incentives and convenient return systems ensure the efficient and large-scale recycling of beverage containers. Accordingly, it is the intent of the Legislature to encourage increased, and more convenient, beverage container redemption opportunities for all consumers. These redemption opportunities shall consist of dealer and other shopping center locations, independent and industry operated recycling centers, curbside programs, and other recycling systems that assure all consumers, in every region of the state, the opportunity to return beverage containers conveniently, efficiently, and economically.
(b)CA 公共资源 Code § 14501(b) California grocery, beer, soft drink, container manufacturing, labor, agricultural, consumer, environmental, government, citizen, recreational, taxpayer, and recycling groups have joined together in calling for an innovative program to generate large-scale redemption and recycling of beverage containers.
(c)CA 公共资源 Code § 14501(c) This division establishes a beverage container recycling goal of 80 percent.
(d)CA 公共资源 Code § 14501(d) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that every container type proves its own recyclability.
(e)CA 公共资源 Code § 14501(e) It is the intent of the Legislature to make redemption and recycling convenient to consumers, and the Legislature hereby urges cities and counties, when exercising their zoning authority, to act favorably on the siting of multimaterial recycling centers, reverse vending machines, mobile recycling units, or other types of recycling opportunities, as necessary for consumer convenience, and the overall success of litter abatement and beverage container recycling in the state.
(f)CA 公共资源 Code § 14501(f) The purpose of this division is to create and maintain a marketplace where it is profitable to establish sufficient recycling centers and locations to provide consumers with convenient recycling opportunities through the establishment of minimum refund values and processing fees and, through the proper application of these elements, to enhance the profitability of recycling centers, recycling locations, and other beverage container recycling programs.
(g)CA 公共资源 Code § 14501(g) The responsibility to provide convenient, efficient, and economical redemption opportunities rests jointly with manufacturers, distributors, dealers, recyclers, processors, and the Department of Conservation.
(h)CA 公共资源 Code § 14501(h) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this division, that all empty beverage containers redeemed shall be recycled, and that the responsibilities and regulations of the department shall be determined and implemented in a manner that favors the recycling of redeemed containers, as opposed to their disposal.
(i)CA 公共资源 Code § 14501(i) Nothing in this division shall be interpreted as affecting the current business practices of scrap dealers or recycling centers, except that, to the extent they function as a recycling center or processor, they shall do so in accordance with this division.
(j)CA 公共资源 Code § 14501(j) The program established by this division will contribute significantly to the reduction of the beverage container component of litter in this state.

Section § 14501.5

Explanation
本法律规定,饮料容器的处理规则不适用于由在特定运输证书下运营的公司在火车、船舶或飞机上出售和使用的饮料容器。