Report Title:

Recycling; Glass

 

Description:

Increases the glass advance disposal fee to fund glass recycling efforts in each county; expands the recycled glass demonstration program. (SD1)

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

1132

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATED TO GLASS RECYCLING.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 342G-82, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is

amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) Every glass container importer shall pay to the department an advance disposal fee. The fee shall be imposed only once on the same glass container and shall not be assessed on drinking glasses, cups, bowls, plates, ashtrays, and similar tempered glass containers. For the period September 1, 1994, to [September 1, 1996,] August 31, 2001, the fee shall be one and one-half cents per glass container. Thereafter, the fee shall be [set by the legislature at a rate the legislature determines will permit funding of county glass recovery programs as required to achieve the following glass recovery program goals:

(1) Twenty-five per cent by the end of 1996;

(2) Fifty per cent by the end of 1998; and

(3) By the end of 2000 and thereafter, the maximum amount practicable considering the economic and environmental benefits to be realized.] 2 cents per container."

SECTION 2. Section 342G-85, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b) The amount due from glass container importers less glass containers exported for the calendar year shall be the sum equal to the number of glass containers provided in subsection (a) multiplied by the advance disposal fee of [1.5] 2 cents. Payment shall be made by check or money order payable to the "Department of Health, State of Hawaii". All subsequent inventory reports and payments shall be made not later than the fifteenth day of the month following the end of the previous calendar quarter, except for those importers subject to subsection (d)."

SECTION 3. Section 342G-86, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) All county glass recovery programs shall include:

(1) Some form of glass incentive or "buy back" program providing a means of encouraging participation by the public or private collectors; and

(2) The paving [during each of the first two years] of the equivalent of one mile of two lane asphalt roadway as part of a research and demonstration program utilizing glassphalt[.], or within any other portion of the pavement section, or any other demonstration project as approved by the department."

SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and striken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on September 1, 2001.