STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1034

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1260

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 1260 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RECYCLING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to promote glass recycling in the State by mandating that the Department of Health adopt and implement the recommendations made by the Office of the Auditor in its December 2014 Report No. 14-17 regarding advance disposal fee glass containers and glass recycling.  Specifically, this measure requires the Department of Health to:

 

(1)  Consider and perform a cost-benefit analysis on

combining the glass container processing streams for the advance disposal fee under chapter 342G, part VII, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and the deposit beverage container fee under chapter 342G, part VIII, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

 

(2)  Update its glass recycling policies, particularly to address obstacles to local down-cycling of advance deposit fee glass;

 

(3)  Increase the recovery rate for advance disposal fee glass containers to seventy-five per cent; and

 

(4)  Submit a report to the Legislature prior to the 2016 Regular Session.

 

     The Office of the Auditor and two individuals supported the measure.  The Hawaii Food Industry Association supported the intent of the measure.  The Department of Health submitted comments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1260 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,

 

 

 

 

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CHRIS LEE, Chair