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OUR CAMPAIGNS Here at CPSC, we're known for getting things done. Our campaigns cover key areas related to our mission of shifting California’s product waste management system from one focused on government funded and ratepayer financed waste diversion to one that relies on producer responsibility in order to reduce public costs and drive improvements in product design that promote environmental sustainability. DON'T RUSH TO FLUSH This program, developed and administered by the California Product Stewardship Council, has the goal of increasing the disposal of unwanted medicines across the state of California. Click the logo to the right to visit the Don't Rush to Flush website. REFUEL YOUR FUN This program, developed and administered by the California Product Stewardship Council, has the goal of increasing the use of reusable camping propane tanks across the state of California. Click the logo to the right to visit the Refuel Your Fun website. CALIFORNIA DRUG TAKE-BACK PROGRAM This program, developed and administered by the California Product Stewardship Council, has the goal of increasing the disposal of unwanted medicines across the state of California. Click the logo to the right to visit the program website. Statewide Textile Recovery Act Taskforce (STRAT) CPSC hosts the Statewide Textile Recovery Act Taskforce (STRAT), bringing together industry experts for in-depth discussions on advocacy strategies and textile stewardship policy opportunities, with a focus on the implementation of SB 707 (Newman). For more info: Textile Pilots Following the lead of the European Union’s Sustainable Products Initiative , products need to be made more Durable Reusable, Repairable, and Recyclable. DR3 CAMPAIGN MAKE THE ELECTRONIC MARINE FLARE SWITCH This program, developed and administered by the California Product Stewardship Council, has the goal of switching boaters from single-use pyrotechnic marine flares to reusable electronic visual distress signal devices (eVDSDs). Click the logo to the right to visit the program webpage. CPSC Pilot Projects Read more about the CPSC pilots leading the way for new programs and campaigns. Solar Panel Pilots Textile Pilots Battery Pilots

ABOUT THE TEXTILE HUB Welcome to the hub for information on the City of Los Angeles' textile recovery pilots. Here, you'll find valuable insights, updates, and resources dedicated to sustainable textile practices. Join us in our mission to promote textile recovery and make a positive impact on our community and environment. Stay informed and get involved! PROJECT INFO MATERIALS PARTICIPATE PRESS Pilot Project Background Project Info Since 2020, the City of Los Angeles has initiated three phases of an industrial textile recovery pilot with LA Sanitation and Environment (LASAN). The goal of the pilot project led by LASAN's Industry Team and contracted to the California Product Stewardship Council (CPSC), is to create a centralized hub (or multiple hubs) with a physical location to receive/sort textiles and a virtual HUB for the website/marketplace. This website serves as a platform for brands to learn more and access recovered materials to incorporate into their products. Read more about the pilot phases: Phase 1 (2020-2022): Collected information on sources of commercial textile waste, fiber content, and established processes to manage unwanted textiles including high occurrences of landfilled blended fabrics. A full report is available online. Phase 2 (2022-2024): Established a virtual LA Textile Hub and working group, tested several fiber identification devices, and sent over 1,000 lbs. of textile waste to recycling and upcycling processing. A full report is available online. Phase 3 (2024-2026): Updating the Hub as a resource for waste generators and brands, sending 3,000 lbs. of cotton waste to domestic recycling and made into fabric in LA, building an upcycling designer database, and several in-person education events . For active opportunities, scroll down to check out available materials, forms, and events. Read the Case Study on the Recycled Cotton Fabric developed by CPSC and LASAN Read the Case Study on Hard-to-Recycle materials common for large events, like LA28 Read the Case Study on Upcycled Denim and Uniforms by CPSC and LASAN MATERIALS The materials described below have been recovered, redesigned, or recycled into new fabrics available for brands and designers to incorporate into new products. The listed companies are working with materials coming from Los Angeles generators from either the LASAN Pilot or other CalRecycle authorized fiber recycling programs, such as carpet and mattresses. Each material is unique with limited supply coming from the textile recovery pilot projects lead by CPSC. Please contact the companies linked below directly for pilot pricing. Final product may be eligible for promotion and additional pilot benefits, please contact info@calpsc.org with final product details. Materials Fiber/Yarn Fabric Designers Support Recycled Fibers and Yarns Note: CPSC pilots funded mechanical processing of natural fibers. Chemical processors listed have been participants in other statewide fiber recycling programs, such as carpet and mattresses. Designers and Upcyclers The Redesign Connection is an open call list of designers who meet the list of qualifications who can connect and network with interested brands directly. All qualified and interested designers will be added to the list. Brands/companies who are interested in connecting with designers with upcycling experience will be able to reach out to the open call list and work directly with designers for possible collaborations. To be added to the Redesign Connection, you must: Be a designer willing to work with post-industrial and post-consumer textiles to make new products; Be a legal business in the City of Los Angeles with an active business license and W-9; Have past experience with upcycling. Not all applicants will qualify for the funded opportunities. Selection does not guarantee on-going work, but that you will be added to our pool of potential contractors who will be chosen based on the needs of our various projects and as funds are available. The submission of a survey does not guarantee eligibility or selection for a funded opportunity. CPSC staff will contact each candidate to confirm receipt and evaluate eligibility. While we may not have work available immediately, we encourage you to apply as we are always interested in potential partners for future grant projects and would love to add your company or service to our growing database. CPSC will share opportunities and requests for proposals directly to the Redesign Connection. For more information, email info@calpsc.org Para traducciones en español, por favor llame a Joanne al 916-597-3972 REDESIGN CONNECTION Fabric mills in Los Angeles working with recycled content yarn Laguna Fabric Knits Swisstex Knits and Finishing Services Variant 3d Knitting Knits The California Product Stewardship Council (CPSC) and Laguna Fabrics developed a 100% cotton fabric made from 40% recycled content sourced from Los Angeles and blended with 60% virgin cotton sourced from the NSF Textile Engine. Read the full case study on the recycled cotton fabric developed by CPSC and LASAN. The image below shows the domestic supply chain used to create the recycled cotton fabric, which is available for brands and designers. Contact info@calpsc.org to request a fabric sample today. Note: CPSC pilots funded knitting recycled content fabric at Laguna and Variant. Swisstex is currently collaborating with Accelerating Circularity on a recycled content fabric pilot. More coming soon. Join the working group: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/STRATMember PARTICIPATE Participate Want to join the pilot working group? Fill out the form below Have textile waste you need recycled? Fill out the form below Are you a brand with inventory to redesign? Fill out the form below WORKING GROUP GENERATOR BRANDS Do you recycle textile waste into new products? Fill out the form below TEXTILE MAP Do you upcycle/design and want opportunity announcements? Fill out the form below REDESIGN CONNECTION EVENTS Join us for a free education event all about textiles! Engage and network with exhibitors, speakers, and textile industry experts about reducing textile waste and emphasizing reuse, repair, and recycling. The agenda features regional leaders in textile circularity who will provide concrete examples of how to upcycle or recycle unwanted textiles into new products. There will be waste-side activities and design-side activities that bring the two industries together to close the loop on circularity. Click Here to RSVP Events Trellis Impact 26 – San Francisco, CA - June 23-25, 2026 PI Apparel: The Fashion Tech Show – New York City, NY – June 24-25, 2026 Sustainable Fashion Forum – Portland, OR – October 28-30, 2026 Textile Pilot Project Funders (Past and Current) PRESS Press November 13th, 2024 Textile recycling efforts pick up steam in LA, New York and beyond February 9th, 2022 California launches circularity projects focused on repair and reuse of textiles February 8th, 2022 California Launches Innovative Textiles Circularity Projects: Part 1 Top Environmental Pollution Issues in SoCal Play Video Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tumblr Copy Link Link Copied CPSC - TOMRA - HomeBoy Threads: Textile Circularity Play Video Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tumblr Copy Link Link Copied

2023 LEGISLATION AB-2 67, Fire protection: tents: nonflammable materials. Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan (D-San Ramon). CPSC SUPPORT. This bill would provide that it is unlawful for any person to manufacture, sell, or offer for sale any tent designed and intended for use for occupancy by less tha n 15 persons unless the tent is made from flame-retardant fabrics, as provided. The bill would, for purposes of this provision, provide that a tent that is constructed with fabric entirely from synthetic fibers shall be classified as being made from flame-retardant fabrics or materials. The bill would delete the requirement that all tents manufactured for sale in this state be flame retardant, as provided. Current Status: SIGNED INTO LAW BY THE GOVERNOR ON 10/13/23. AB-496, Cosmetic safety. Assemblymember Friedman (D-Burbank). CPSC SUPPORT. Existing law, commencing January 1, 2025, prohibits a person or entity from manufacturing, selling, delivering, holding, or offering for sale in commerce any cosmetic product that contains any of several specified intentionally added ingredients except under specified circums tances. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2027, expand that prohibition by adding specified banned ingredients . Current Status: SIGNED INTO LAW BY THE GOVERNOR ON 10/08/23. AB-592, Vehicles: commercial nonfranchise solid waste haulers: pilot program. Assemblymember Wilson (D-Suisun City). CPSC SUPPORT. Existing law authorizes local authorities to adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution regarding specified matters, including, among other things, the methods of deposit of garbage and refuse in streets and highways for collection by the local authority or by any person authorized by the local authority. This bill, until January 1, 2028, would authorize the Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano to create a 3-year pilot program to regulate the transport of solid waste by commercial nonfranchise solid waste haulers, as defined, on public roads in unincorporated areas of the county, as provided. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano. Current Status: SIGNED INTO LAW BY THE GOVERNOR ON 09/22/23. AB-727 , Product safety: cleaning products and floor sealers or floor finishes: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Assemblymember Weber (D-La Mesa). CPSC SUPPORT. This bill, beginning January 1, 2026, would prohibit a person from manufacturing, selling, delivering, distributing, holding, or offering for sale in the state a cleaning product that contains regulated PFAS, as specified. The bill, beginning January 1, 2028, would prohibit a person from manufacturing, selling, delivering, distributing, holding, or offering for sale in the state a floor sealer or floor finish that contains regulated PFAS, as specified. The bill would make a violation of these provisions punishable by a civil penalty not to exceed $10,000 per day for each violation, upon an action brought by the Attorney General, a city or county attorney, a county counsel, city prosecutor, or a district attorney. The bill would exempt treatments containing PFAS for use on converted textiles or leathers, as specified, from these provisions. Current Status: VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR ON 10/08/23. AB-1059 , Product safety: consumer products: textile fiberglass and covered flame retardant chemicals. Assemblymember Friedman (D-Burbank). CPSC SUPPORT. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2027, prohibit a person from manufacturing, selling, offering, or distributing in commerce in the state any new, not previously owned juvenile product, mattress, or upholstered furniture that contains, or a constituent component of which contains, textile fiberglass. The bill would, on and after January 1, 2027, prohibit a custom upholsterer from repairing, reupholstering, recovering, restoring, or renewing any mattress, juvenile product, upholstered furniture, or reupholstered furniture using a replacement component that contains, or a constituent component of which contains, textile fiberglass. The bill would authorize the bureau to assess a fine against a person who continues to sell or distribute noncompliant products and to take specified other actions in that regard, including posting citations issued on the bureau’s internet website and receiving complaints from consumers. Current Status: SIGNED INTO LAW BY THE GOVERNOR ON 10/08/23. AB-1423 , Product safety: PFAS: artificial turf or synthetic surfaces. Assemblymember Schiavo (D-Santa Clarita). CPSC SUPPORT. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2024, require a manufacturer or installer of a covered surface, defined as artificial turf or a synthetic surface that resembles grass, proposing to design or install a field with a covered surface for, or sell a field with a covered surface to, any party to notify the party at the earliest possible date if the covered surface contains regulated PFAS, as defined, of that fact. The bill would also prohibit, commencing January 1, 2024, a public entity, including a charter city, charter county, city, or county, any public or private school serving pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, a public institution of higher education, other than the University of California, or a private institution of higher education from purchasing or installing a covered surface containing regulated PFAS, as provided. Current Status: VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR ON 10/08/23. AB-1526 , Public resources. Assembly Committee on Natural Resources. CPSC SUPPORT. The Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act covers certain single-use packaging and plastic single-use food service ware, as provided. This bill would make technical amendments and other revisions to certain components of the act, including the act’s definitions and a PRO’s producer fee schedule. The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 establishes the architectural paint recovery program, under which a manufacturer of architectural paint is required, individually or through a stewardship organization, to submit an architectural paint stewardship plan to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to develop and implement a recovery program to reduce the generation of postconsumer architectural paint, promote the reuse of postconsumer architectural paint, and manage the end of life of postconsumer architectural paint. This bill would, among other things, eliminate the exemption from the program of aerosol spray paint and would provide that architectural paint includes aerosol coating products, as defined. Current Status: SIGNED INTO LAW BY THE GOVERNOR ON 10/13/23. AB-1628 , Microfiber filtration. Assembly Member McKinnor (D-Inglewood). CPSC SUPPORT. This bill would require, on and after January 1, 2029, that all new washing machines sold or offered for sale in California for residential or state use contain a microfiber filtration system, as defined, with a mesh size not greater than 100 micrometers, and bear a label with a specified consumer notice, as provided. The bill would provide that a violation of these provisions is punishable by a specified civil penalty, upon an action brought by the Attorney General, a city attorney, a county counsel, or a district attorney. The bill would also include legislative findings and declarations. Current Status: VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR ON 10/08/23. SB-244 , Right to Repair Act. Senator Eggman (D-Stockton). CPSC SUPPORT. This bill would enact the Right to Repair Act. The bill would require, except as specified and regardless of whether any express warranty is made, the manufacturer of an above-described electronic or appliance product, in the above-described circumstances, and in those same circumstances but sold to others outside of direct retail sales, to make available, on fair and reasonable terms, to product owners, service and repair facilities, and service dealers, the means, as described, to effect the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of the product, as provided. The bill would also require a service and repair facility or service dealer that is not an authorized repair provider, as defined, of a manufacturer to provide a written notice of that fact to any customer seeking repair of an electronic or appliance product before the repair facility or service dealer repairs the product, and to disclose if it uses repla cement parts that are used or from a supplier that is not the manufacturer. The bill would also authorize a city, a county, a city and county, or the state to bring an action in superior court to impose civil penalties on a person or entity for violating the Right to Repair Act, as provided. Current Status: SIGNED INTO LAW BY THE GOVERNOR ON 10/10/23. SB-271 , Powered wheelchairs: repair. Senator Dodd (D-Napa). CPSC SUPPORT. This bill would, except as specified, require an original manufacturer of a powered wheelchair, as those terms are defined, to provide documentation, parts, embedded software, firmware, and tools used to inspect, diagnose, maintain, and repair the wheelchair to an owner or an independent repair provider for the purposes of providing service on the equipment in the state, on fair and reasonable terms and costs, as defined. The bill would also require an original manufacturer, for a powered wheelchair that contains an electronic security lock or other security-related function, to provide any documentation, parts, embedded software, firmware, or tools needed to reset the lock or function when disabled in the course of providing services, as specified. The bill would require an independent repair provider to provide a written notice to a customer before providing repair services, as specified. Current Status: VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR ON 10/07/23. SB-353 , Beverage containers: recycling. Senator Dodd (D-Napa). CPSC SUPPORT. This bill would expand the application of the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act to any size container of 100% fruit and any size container of vegetable juice, beginning January 1, 2024. Since the additional payments for the beverage containers that this bill would make subject to the act would be deposited in a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation. The bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating new crimes under the act relating to the regulation of beverage containers. This bill would exempt beverage containers of 46 ounces or more of 100% fruit juice and beverage containers of 16 ounces or more of vegetable juice from consideration in calculating the required percentage of postconsumer recycled plastic for a beverage manufacturer until January 1, 2026. Current Status: SIGNED INTO LAW BY THE GOVERNOR ON 10/13/23. SB-622 , Cannabis regulation: plant identification program: unique identifier. Senator Allen (D-Los Angeles). CPSC SUPPORT. Existing law requires the Department of Cannabis Control to implement a unique identification program for cannabis and cannabis products and requires the program to include the identification of permitted cannabis plants at a cultivation site during the cultivation period. Existing law requires a unique identifier to be issued for each cannabis plant and to be attached at the base of each plant or as otherwise required by law or regulation. This bill would instead require the unique identifier to be recorded in a manner as determined by the department by regulation. Current Status: SIGNED INTO LAW BY THE GOVERNOR ON 10/08/23. SB-665 , Plastic waste: single-use plastics alternatives: working group. Senator Allen (D-Los Angeles). CPSC SUPPORT. This bill would require the California Environmental Protection Agency, by January 1, 2025, to establish a working group of the above-referenced state entities that would establish a framework, by July 1, 2026, for evaluating novel plastic and plastic-alternative material types used to produce single-use products as they are developed, in order to inform state policy decisions designed to create a more sustainable and circular economy, as provided. The bill would require the working group to, among other things, develop recommendations related to novel material types, including the appropriate marketing and labeling of the material, the handling of the material at the end of its useful life, and how the material needs to be treated in relation to existing state policies, rules, and regulations. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2029. Current Status: VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR ON 10/08/23. SB-777 , Solid waste: reusable grocery bags and recycled paper bags. Senator Allen (D-Los Angeles). CPSC SUPPORT. This bill would require a store to retain the collected moneys to also be used for costs associated with providing consumers with an opportunity for returning reusable grocery bags to the store for recycling, and any other costs associated with ensuring that collected bags are recycled. The bill would require stores to submit an annual report to the department with specified information related to the total costs associated with complying with the act, as specified, and the balance, if any, of remaining funds, in the year. The bill would authorize a chain that owns more than one store to report aggregated data for all of the stores operated under that chain. The bill would authorize an authorized representative of a store with a collective bargaining agreement to review and make copies of those annual reports. The bill would require that these provisions apply only to certain stores, as described. Current Status: VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR ON 10/08/23. SB-806 , Trash receptacles and storage containers: reflective markings: enforcement. Senator Archuleta (D-Los Angeles). Existing law requires, commencing January 1, 2025, a manufacturer who sells or provides for compensation, and, commencing January 1, 2026, an owner of, a trash receptacle or storage container that is longer than 3 feet and taller than 4 feet and that is designed to be placed on a roadway or the curb of a roadway in order to be emptied or picked up to mark the receptacle or container with a reflector on each side, as specified. Existing law provides that a violation of these requirements would result in a criminal infraction punishable by a fine, as specified. This bill would replace the criterion for a trash receptacle or storage container to be designed to be placed on a roadway or curb to be emptied or picked up with it being placed on a roadway or curb to be emptied or picked up. The bill would reduce the size of the required reflectors, change the required placement of the reflectors, and expand the types of reflectors that meet the requirement, as specified. The bill would authorize the Attorney General, or the district attorney or city attorney in the location where the violation is observed, to enforce a violation of the above-described provisions. The bill would create the Accident Prevention and Road Safety Fund and would require the fines collected to be deposited into this fund. Current Status: SIGNED INTO LAW BY THE GOVERNOR ON 10/10/23.

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EVENT INFO SPONSORS & EXHIBITORS AGENDA About the Event Join the City and County of Los Angeles for a FREE textile upcycling and recycling education event hosted by the City and County of Los Angeles, the California Product Stewardship Council (CPSC), and the LA Cleantech Incubator, funded by CalRecycle, LA Sanitation, and other sponsors, in collaboration with Afflare.co and Fashion is Outrageous, and the 100+ member working group. The event will include keynote speakers, demonstrations, and interactive activities to learn about how the City, County, and State divert textiles from the landfill. The agenda features regional leaders in textile circularity who will provide concrete examples of how to upcycle or recycle unwanted textiles into new products. The morning speakers include participants from the LA Sanitation pilot project who recycled cotton waste into a domestic supply-chain for a fabric knitted in Los Angeles. Panelists will also discuss hard-to-recycle materials related to LA28 and other large events. The afternoon session will allow for more direct engagement with speakers and a chance to participate in interactive activities. The afternoon classroom activities explore partnerships, meet upcycling designers, feedstocks, and local service opportunities for textile repair, recycling, and other design considerations for textile circularity. There will be waste-side activities and design-side activities that bring the two industries together to close the loop on circularity. Learn more about all three phases of the LA Sanitation Textile Recovery Pilot: calpsc.org/latextilehub See exhibits from leaders in the textile industry, and opportunities to network and discuss textile recovery opportunities. Participants will walk away understanding the potential for textile circularity and recycling in California. Location: 525 S Hewitt St Suite 150, Los Angeles, CA 90013 Date: June 10, 2026 Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Cost: FREE RSVP Registration is required . About Event Sponsors Sponsors Additional Sponsors Added Weekly. We're looking for more sponsors. Donations are on a sliding scale and tax deductible. Sponsor Exhibitors Exhibits and Activities CPSC leads the state in unique waste management programs, including leading LA Sanitation's multi-year initiative on textile recovery. CPSC sponsored California's new Textile EPR law and leads pilot projects throughout the state. Stop by the table to see the recycled cotton fabric we developed with LASAN and other opportunities to process textile waste. It's a great model for circularity and LA28! The City of Los Angeles generates 71,898 tons of textiles annually, representing about 6% of the landfill waste stream and 2% of recyclable waste stream, both of the commercial waste stream. The City of Los Angeles has long been committed to diverting textile waste and has pursued conceptual studies on textile waste since 2020, with major accomplishments in each phase. Stop by the table to see how the City prioritizes reuse, repair, and recycling of commercially generated textile waste. Los Angeles County Public Works is one of the largest municipal public works agencies in the United States, providing vital 21st Century infrastructure and essential services to more than 10 million people across a 4,000-square-mile regional service area. They are the zone administrators for CalRecycle's Recycling Market Development Zone (RMDZ) program. Stop by the table to see if the RMDZ program can offer your business technical assistance or access to a low interest rate loan. As California’s officially designated Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO) for the Textile EPR program, Landbell USA is leading the state’s transition toward a circular textile economy. At this event, our team will host a dedicated space to provide expert guidance, clarify regulatory requirements, and facilitate the onboarding process for producers and industry stakeholders. With the July 1st statutory deadline rapidly approaching, it is critical for all covered entities to ensure they are in full compliance with registration requirements. LACI works with startups to accelerate the commercialization of clean technologies; transforming markets through partnerships with policymakers, innovators, and market leaders in zero-emission transportation, clean energy, and sustainable cities; and enhancing communities through workforce development, pilots, and other programs. LACI has incubated many textile-related businesses and collaborates with the LASAN textile recovery pilot. As the event venue hosts, they will showcase their many accomplishments. Cofounded by Gabrielle Miller and Kestrel Jenkins, Fashion Is Outrageous (FIO) develops educational materials and interactive experiences, evidence-based data insights, reports and creative art-driven dissemination across research and policy to spaces and digital media. FIO is currently delivering programmatic planning for educational events on SB 707 and working on universities and government funded research packages. FIO is leading several interactive activities, including mapping participants, designer discussions, and audio focus groups. Laguna Fabrics is a knitting mill based in Los Angeles creating fabrics with lower impacts. Laguna Fabrics participates in the Textile Recovery Pilot Working group and knitted the fabric developed by CPSC and LASAN. Laguna will exhibit several fabrics, including the pilot fabric, that could qualify producers for lower eco-fees under California's new Textile EPR law. Circular Fashion LA will provide a “ReDye to ReLove” workshop offering guided dyeing sessions to revive stained, faded, or outdated garments, including supplies and care instructions, with approximately 20-minute sessions priced at $30 per participant. They also offer on-site repair services such as patching, knit shaving, resewing seams and hems, and elastic replacement or refitting, with repairs starting at $20 for simple fixes and $33 for moderate repairs. Attendees can bring items for repair and drop them off at the Circular Fashion LA truck at the beginning of the event. RE/ASSEMBLY 2026 was a LIVE UPCYCLING COMPETITION held in front of an audience at the PREFACE fabric show in downtown Los Angeles on the 28th of January. Three teams of three designers had ONE DAY to create an outfit using denim from Reformation, post-consumer materials from Homeboy Threads, fish leather from 7 Leagues, zippers from YKK, and assorted trims and findings from Golden Sewing in front of the show’s 300+ attendees of fashion professionals. The winning designs from the Re/Assembly 2026 will be on display. Rooted in a long history of creative problem-solving, the company's legacy began in 1934 with pioneering founder Lillian Greneker, who revolutionized visual merchandising by inventing the world's first flexible, movable mannequin forms. Following World War II, operations moved to Los Angeles, establishing deep local roots and cementing a reputation as a pacesetter for American manufacturing and retail display design. For this hometown exhibition, Greneker has donated dress forms to provide the essential structural canvas for designers and advocates showcasing the future of textile recovery, reuse, and recycling in California. When Simon Met Ralph is the creative collaboration of Simon Ungless and Jody Niederkohr, who transform previously worn garments and discarded textiles into one-of-a-kind pieces through techniques such as printmaking, felting, and dyeing. Rooted in sustainability and artistic reinvention, their work gives new life to forgotten materials while showcasing the creative potential of textile reuse. They will exhibit an upcycled blazer that highlights their innovative approach to fashion and circularity. Thread Haus Co. will showcase innovative solutions that demonstrate how discarded textiles can be transformed into high-value products while creating measurable environmental and social impact. The display will feature the signature StreetSleeper System — a multifunctional garment that converts between a jacket, duffle bag, and sleeping system. Alongside StreetSleeper, we will present selections from our 600+ Jersey Collection, a radical reuse initiative created from donated sports jerseys recovered from the waste stream. Each one-of-one garment highlights how surplus textiles can be transformed into premium fashion pieces, extending material life and reducing landfill waste. Through these projects, Thread Haus has diverted thousands of pounds of textiles from disposal while creating opportunities for education, workforce development, and community engagement through our workshops and makers programs. The hospitality industry generates millions of tons of textile waste annually, worsening landfill pollution. By repurposing these materials, we not only help to diminish waste but also support hotels in their sustainability endeavors. Our uniforms boast premium quality and comfort, embodying our commitment to environmental consciousness and setting a precedent for sustainable practices within the hospitality industry. Clothing is the number one concrete need identified by families impacted by the child welfare system. At the same time, millions of tons of usable clothing are discarded every year. ReMade in America brings these two challenges together into one solution—providing essential resources with dignity while reducing waste. lothing items that can’t be redistributed are remanufactured into ComFYies—plush comfort items filled with recycled materials—because nothing usable should go to waste. Visit the D-sphere exhibit and experience the journey of the Upcycled Denim Tote—from donated, damaged, defective denim inventory and deadstock materials (lining and inside pockets) to a purpose-driven product with a meaningful story. Examine the tote up close, including the unique circularity artifacts that reveal its previous life and demonstrate the power of material recovery and reuse. Then explore the case study to learn how Reformation, Homeboy Threads, HHGC, CPSC, D/Sphere and Dhana collaborated to transform waste into value—creating positive outcomes for people, planet, and purpose. Every tote has a story worth discovering. Lab Denim is a bio-technology company at the forefront of innovation in the denim industry. They are leading a transformative shift, bringing sustainability, innovation, and efficiency to denim manufacturing. With our patented indigo-free, post–weave colorization technology (PWC). Lab denim's patented digital dyeing process replaces traditional dye baths with precision-applied, bio-based chemistry. We are bringing a new era of scalable, resource-reduced production to market, proving that performance and sustainability can operate within the same system. Ragroyalty designs, sources, merchandises, produces, and sells apparel and fashion accessories for the nation’s leading brands. With over 25 years of experience and millions of dollars worth of sales and production, our management team will efficiently guide you from product concept to delivery. Rag Royalty processed approximately 600 retired uniforms (estimated at roughly 518 pounds) of City-owned uniforms into the SWAG bags given at the event. Rather than being discarded, these garments were transformed into new products, specifically bags, demonstrating a closed-loop system in practice. Enna Threads creates a range of garments from ready-to-wear to wearable art. They use vintage and deadstock fabrics, and upcycled textiles to create unique designs. This exhibit will rotate designs every hour. Each design will include post-industrial and consumer textile waste. Agenda Agenda 9:30 AM 9:45 AM 10:00 AM 11:10 AM 11:45 AM 9:00 AM 12:00 PM 12:30 PM 10:50 AM 2:00 PM Refreshments and networking Welcome: City of Los Angeles Textile Recovery Pilot Overview LA Sanitation and Environment (LASAN) Panel: Recycled Cotton Fabric - Waste Sourced from LA- Knitted in LA Moderated by: LASAN Featuring : Homeboy Threads, Looptworks, Laguna Fabric, Nature USA Statewide Textile Recovery Update California Product Stewardship Council (CPSC) Panel: "Hard-to-Manage" Textiles that Increase with Large Events Moderated by: CPSC Featuring : Eorte, Aberdeen, LA Fiber, The SUAY Center for Repair + Reuse Message from Event Sponsor Onsite lunch sponsored by Classroom Activities and Interactive Experiences: Amphitheater: City Textile Updates Featuring : Waste hauler audits, City/County Textile Program Planning Classroom 401: State Textile Updates Featuring : Scaling upcycling manufacturing, Q&A with the Textile EPR PRO Classroom 131: Textile Pilot Exhibit Featuring : Recycled cotton fabric, upcycled products, and publications Hot seat area: exhibit tables and art activations Featuring : Participation mapping, government program updates, and more Media room: Community interviews Featuring : Focus groups and interviews Outside: Circular Fashion LA's Electric Truck Featuring : BYO damaged items for repair, SWAG bag decoration, and more Event ends Speakers Speaker Bios David Roshan As a family-owned company operating over multiple generations, Laguna Fabrics has been supplying the market with trend-forward, high-quality knits with a fast turnaround for 35+ years. Laguna fabrics is participating in several textile sustainability pilots with LASAN/CPSC, Fibershed, and Accelerating Circularity. Brenda Yaghoobi Brenda Yaghoobi is an Environmental Engineering Associate in the Industrial Waste Management Division at LA Sanitation and Environment (LASAN). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and has professional experience in desalination processes, wastewater treatment, and sustainability. In her current role, she supports pollution prevention initiatives for businesses across the City of Los Angeles, including the City’s first Textile Recovery Pilot. Joanne Brasch Dr. Joanne Brasch is the Director of Advocacy at the California Product Stewardship Council (CPSC), leading projects and policies that promote a circular economy using Product Stewardship and Extended Producer Responsibility. CPSC was the exclusive sponsor of SB707 - California's new Textile Recovery Program. CPSC has been leading textile recovery pilots with LA Sanitation and LA County since 2020. Dr. Brasch is appointed by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) to the California carpet advisory committee and holds the Vice Chair position. She holds a PhD in Textile Economics and Environmental Analysis from the University of California, Davis. She’s the former Chair of the American Association for Textile Chemists and Colorists California Chapter and sits on several academic external advisory boards around the Country. She made Waste360’s “40 under 40” list for 2021. Contact Joanne at joanne@calpsc.org or via LinkedIn Mike Farid Mike is an innovative leader in apparel design and manufacturing with over 30 years of experience transforming concepts into market-ready products. He specializes in bridging creative vision with technical precision—delivering high-quality, scalable solutions across global supply chains. As a pioneer in social responsibility and environmental sustainability, Mike has championed ethical sourcing, circular design principles, and low-impact production methods long before they became industry buzzwords. His work reflects a deep commitment to creating fashion that respects both people and planet. Nature USA was the waste generator who pre-sorted cutting room scraps by fiber type, which was recycled into the LASAN pilot Fabric. Linda Corrado Linda Corrado leads Business Development at Homeboy Threads, a certified social enterprise of Homeboy Industries, located in Los Angeles, CA. Following an extensive career as a Product Executive and Business Entrepreneur in the fashion, gift, and home decor industries, she is dedicated to driving systemic change towards more sustainable and circular business practices. Using her experience in Business Development and building Strategic Partnerships, her work centers on the role of industry in generating positive environmental and social impact for all stakeholders, people and the planet. She also serves as a Board Member of Upstream and was most recently the VP of Community and Partnerships at Fashion Revolution USA. Mariam Panasyan Mariam Panasyan began her career ten years ago as an Environmental Engineering Associate with LA Sanitation and the Environment. During her initial tenure she oversaw numerous capital improvement projects and NPDES permit compliance at the Donald C. Tillman and LA/Glendale Water Reclamation Plants. Currently, Mariam is a member of the LA Industry team, where she contributes to various pollution prevention initiatives, including the Fork to Fuel Initiative and the Textile Recovery Project. Since 2023, she has served as the Project Manager for the Textile Recovery Project within the Industrial Waste Management Division. Mariam holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from California State University, Los Angeles. Joey Pham Joey Pham is the founder of Eorte brand, a clean tech company building circular infrastructure to eliminate textile waste from landfills and support the transition to a compliant, low-waste economy. He spent the better part of his career in the fashion industry, building and scaling brands and gaining a deep understanding of how products are made, moved, and ultimately discarded. Through that journey, he saw firsthand the amount of waste our industry creates—and it pushed him to rethink what responsibility looks like in business. Today, as the founder of Eorte brand, Joey focused on turning that challenge into an opportunity—working to transform hotel textile waste into circular systems that create both environmental and economic value. His mission is simple: to prove that sustainability isn’t a trade-off, but a better way to build—one that supports our communities, reduces waste, and moves the industry forward with intention. Jessica Matlock Jessica Matlock is the Government Relations Manager for Landbell USA, the Product Responsibility Organization selected by CalRecycle to implement the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024 – the first-in-the-nation Extended Producer Responsibility program for clothing and textiles. Jessica previously served as a Policy Analyst in the California State Senate where she staffed housing, local government and environmental legislation, most notably SB 707 (Newman), the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024. Beba Greer As Director of Sustainable Operations and Engagement, Beba Greer leads efforts to integrate sustainability into core business operations, climate strategy, and brand engagement. This includes, among other things, supporting the brand’s extensive circularity efforts, through both pre-production and post-purchase initiatives, and implementing green building infrastructure across its 65+ door retail fleet. Beba is also responsible for collaborating with cross-functional teams across the organization to translate sustainability ambitions into tactical action plans and clear, credible communications. Over the course of her 10-year career, she is proud to have helped advance industry leading sustainability programs, including Reformation’s Climate Positive strategy and Scope 3 reductions aligned with the Science Based Targets initiative. Her leadership style is people-centered and rooted in storytelling and change management, with a focus on making operations better for people, planet, and profit. Before joining Reformation, Beba worked at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., the third-largest craft brewery in the world, supporting sustainability initiatives at a LEED Platinum certified, zero-waste facility with a 99.8% diversion rate. Beba graduated from California Polytechnic San Luis Obispo with a Bachelor of Science in Wine and Viticulture. Scott Hamlin Scott Hamlin is the Founder & CEO of Looptworks. Looptworks is a Certified B-Corp textile-to-textile recycling specialist offering innovative, scalable solutions for brands and organizations worldwide. Based in Gresham, Oregon, Looptworks owns a fully operational facility features a unique technology that transforms pre- and post-consumer textiles into high-quality recycled fibers. As a Global Recycled Standard (GRS) certified company, Looptworks ensures verified recycled content and responsible processing, producing premium recycled fiber. Looptworks recycled cotton fabric scraps for the LASAN Pilot. Shiloh Uhlir Afflare helps brands and consumers think, shop, and sell beyond the first sale. In the rapidly evolving landscape of textile resale, reuse, recycling, and recovery, Afflare works with brands to develop and implement circularity strategies that reduce waste, strengthen customer loyalty, and unlock new value from existing products—while also creating resources that empower consumers to shop and consider second-hand Kestrel Jenkins Kestrel Jenkins is an internationally trained journalist, Fulbright scholar and podcasting trailblazer. With over 17 years of working in storytelling, public speaking, writing, communication and digital media, Kestrel has a globally recognized voice, researching and communicating critical knowledge and advocacy in the fashion and sustainability space. She pushes the limits of storytelling, and leaned into podcasting before it became a cultural phenomenon. Her podcast, Conscious Chatter, was the first to cover the depth and breadth of the international fashion industry, and has been downloaded over 1 million times with listeners across 115+ countries. She has hosted powerful interviews with key stakeholders, exploring how products, practices, and policy can accelerate innovation in fashion for good. Her past work coproducing the first “eco fashion show” at Mercedes-Benz with the GreenShows and leading sustainability & narrative for docu-series projects distinctly places her between the spaces of industry, media and education. Gabrielle Miller Gabrielle Miller has worked at the London College of Fashion (LCF), University of the Arts London for over ten years, both lecturing and at research centers including the Centre for Sustainable Fashion and Centre for Circular Design. She has exceptional expertise in pedagogical innovation, and has published research on defining fashion tech as an emerging discipline. She co-developed an award-winning edtech Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) for the University of the Arts London. The reach and impact for the duration of the course was highly successful, reaching 90,037 learners in total from 144 countries (2018-2025). She won the Green Gown award for the ‘Next Generation of Learning and Skills’ (2018) – awards given to acknowledge institutions of higher education on their exceptional efforts towards sustainability. Her tenure as designer at prestigious fashion houses including Alexander McQueen and Givenchy, combined with leading fashion and sustainability for the design school at LCF, positions her uniquely at the intersection of industry and academia. Ken Bach Aberdeen Fabrics is a U.S.-based textile manufacturer with a domestic supply chain that has built its business around supply-chain transparency, environmental responsibility, and consistent quality. Ken will be speaking about green banners and printed graphics as a textile waste stream that increases with events, like LA28. Steven Greitzer Los Angeles Fiber Company opened in 1983 to process the raw materials needed for Reliance Carpet Cushion. LA Fiber quickly became the largest recycler of carpet and textile materials on the West Coast and continues to be an industry leader in the waste management and post-consumer carpet recycling industries. For the last decade, LA Fiber has been a collector, sorter, and processor for California's carpet stewardship program. Today, they are considering transitioning back to textile processing and will discuss their challenges and opportunities. Glynn Barrish-Carroll Ragroyalty is a Los Angeles-based apparel development and production company that works with leading fashion brands to bring products from concept to market. Led by owner and president Glynn Barrish-Carroll, who has more than 25 years of industry experience, Ragroyalty specializes in sourcing, merchandising, and manufacturing, with a strong commitment to domestic production through U.S.-based factories. Are you a designer and want to be added to our "Redesign Connection" database to receive exclusive upcycling work opportunity announcements: https://www.calpsc.org/latextilehub Want to know more about CPSC’s work on textiles? Visit out textile webpage: www.calpsc.org/cpsc-textilestewardship

2022 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATION 2021 AB 2440 , Responsible Battery Recycling Act of 2022. Assembly Member Irwin (D-Camarillo). SPONSORED BY CPSC, CAW, and RethinkWaste. SIGNED INTO LAW 9/16/2022. This bill would enact the Responsib le Battery Recycling Act of 2022, which would require producers, as defined, either individually or through the creation of one or more stewardship organizations, to establish a stewardship program for the collection and recycling of covered batteries, as defined. The bill would require a program operator, as defined, to develop, and to submit to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (department) and the Department of Toxic Substances Control for review and for approval by the department, as specified, a stewardship plan and would prescribe the standards and elements required to be contained in a stewardship plan for covered batteries. The bill would require the department, in consultation with the Department of Toxic Substances Control, to adopt regulations to implement the act with an effective date of no earlier than April 1, 2025. The bill would require a program operator to have a complete stewardship plan approved by the department no later than 24 months after the effective date of the regulations adopted by the department in order for the program operator to be in compliance with the act. Fact Sheet Letter of Support Current Status: SIGNED INTO LA W 9/16/2022. Press: Tracking 2022 recycling laws by state - WasteDive, 11/29/22 California Passes Two New Laws to Overhaul State’s Battery Extended Producer Responsibility Program and Broadly Expand State’s E-Waste Program - Beveridge & Diamond, 10/06/2022 California targets battery and device collection - Recycling Today, 9/20/2022 California Gov. Newsom signs many recycling and waste bills, vetoes two - WasteDive, 9/19/2022 California governor signs bills expanding e-scrap recycling - E-Scrap News, 9/19/2022 Two Landmark Bills in California Aiming to Increase Battery Recycling Signed Into Law - Waste Advantage Magazine, 9/19/2022 California Passes Two New Bills to Overhaul State’s Battery Extended Producer Responsibility Program and Broadly Expand State’s E-Waste Program - JD Supra, 9/12/2022 California Passes Two New Bills to Overhaul State’s Battery Extended Producer Responsibility Program and Broadly Expand State’s E-Waste Program - National Law Review, 9/8/2022 Release: Bills to Create Statewide Battery Recycling Program Approved by California Legislature - Senate District 29, 8/31/2022 California legislature advances battery EPR and takeback bills, aiming to avert facility fires - WasteDive, 8/31/2022 Senator Newman and Assemblymember Irwin Introduce Legislation to Ensure Safe and Accessible Battery Disposal - CPSC, 2/18/2022 New legislation proposed a statewide program to recycle batteries - Orange County Breeze, 2/26/2022 SB 1215 , Electronic Waste Recycling Act of 2003: covered battery-embedded products. Senator Newman (D-Fullerton). SPONSORED BY CPSC, CAW, and RethinkWaste. SIGNED INTO LAW 9/16/2022. This bill would, among other things, expand the definition of “covered electronic device” to include a “covered battery-embedded product,” as defined, thereby expanding the scope of the act to include covered battery-embedded products, as provided. The bill would require a consumer, on and after January 1, 2026, to pay a covered battery-embedded waste recycling fee in an amount established by CalRecycle upon the purchase of a new or refurbished covered battery-embedded product. The bill would authorize, beginning on August 1, 2028, CalRecycle, in collaboration with DTSC, to establish more than one covered electronic waste recycling fee for covered battery-embedded products based on categories of those products. The bill would also require, on or before October 1, 2025, and on or before October 1 each year thereafter, CalRecycle to establish a covered electronic waste recycling fee based on the reasonable regulatory costs to administer covered electronic waste recycling. The bill would require the charge to be imposed upon the purchase of a new or refurbished covered battery-embedded product. The bill would also require the charge to be adjusted annually based on the California Consumer Price Index. The bill would require CalRecycle, on or before August 1, 2027, and thereafter as specified, in collaboration with DTSC, to review, at a public hearing, the covered battery-embedded waste recycling fee applicable to covered battery-embedded products and to make any fair and reasonable adjustments to the charge to ensure that there are sufficient revenues in the Covered Battery-Embedded Waste Recycling Fee Subaccount to fund the covered electronic waste recycling program established pursuant to the act. Fact Sheet Letter of Support Current Status: SIGNED INTO LAW 9/16/2022. Press: Tracking 2022 recycling laws by state - WasteDive, 11/29/22 California Passes Two New Laws to Overhaul State’s Battery Extended Producer Responsibility Program and Broadly Expand State’s E-Waste Program - Beveridge & Diamond , 10/06 /2022 California targets battery and device collection - Recycling Today, 9/20/2022 California Gov. Newsom signs many recycling and waste bills, vetoes two - WasteDive, 9/19/2022 Two Landmark Bills in California Aiming to Increase Battery Recycling Signed Into Law - Waste Advantage Magazine, 9/19/2022 California Passes Two New Bills to Overhaul State’s Battery Extended Producer Responsibility Program and Broadly Expand State’s E-Waste Program - JD Supra, 9/12/2022 California Passes Two New Bills to Overhaul State’s Battery Extended Producer Responsibility Program and Broadly Expand State’s E-Waste Program - National Law Review, 9/8/2022 Release: Bills to Create Statewide Battery Recycling Program Approved by California Legislature - Senate District 29, 8/31/2022 California legislature advances battery EPR and takeback bills, aiming to avert facility fires - WasteDive, 8/31/2022 Senator Newman and Assemblymember Irwin Introduce Legislation to Ensure Safe and Accessible Battery Disposal - CPSC, 2/18/2022 New legislation proposed a statewide program to recycle batteries - Orange County Breeze, 2/26/2022 SB 1256 , Waste management: disposable propane cylinders. Senator Wieckowski (D-Fremont). SPONSORED BY CPSC. VETOED BY GOV 9/29/2022 This bill would, on and after January 1, 2028, prohibit the sale or offer for sale of disposable propane cylinders, as defined, and would make the violation of this provision subject to specified civil penalties. The bill would authorize a city attorney or county counsel to impose these civil penalties, as provided. Veto Letter from the Governor Fact Sheet CPSC Coalition Letter of Support Current Status: VETOED BY GOVERNOR ON 9/29/2022 AB 661 , Recycling: materials. Assembly Member Bennett (D-Santa Barbara). SUPPORT. SIGNED INTO LAW 9/25/2022. This bill would require a state agency, if fitness and quality are equal, to purchase recycled products instead of nonrecycled products whenever recycled products are available at no more than 10% greater total cost than nonrecycled products, and specified circumstances exist. The bill would substantially revise product categories. The bill would require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in concurrence with the DGS and in consultation with impacted agencies, to update a list of products and minimum recycled content percentages, as determined to be appropriate, commencing January 1, 2026, and every 3 years thereafter. The bill would require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery and the DGS to incorporate the updated list of products and minimum recycled content requirements into the State Contracting Manual, the Financial Information System for California, and the financial system of any department not utilizing the Financial Information System for California. The bill would require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to maintain an internet website with current SABRC products and minimum recycled content requirements. The bill would establish product categories and minimum content and recyclability requirements, effective January 1, 2023, until updated by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery. CPSC Letter of Support Current Status: SIGNED INTO LAW 9/25/2022. Press: Tracking 2022 recycling laws by state - WasteDive, 11/29/22 AB 842 ,California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act. Assembly Member Garcia (D- Downey). DIED 1/31/2022. The bill would require the stewardship plan to include funding to support, among other things, mechanisms necessary to achieve a 75% recycling rate of single-use packaging and single-use products by 2032 and annually thereafter. The bill would require, starting in 2025, a stewardship organization to charge and collect from its member producers. Funding for the purposes of paying the administrative and operational costs of the stewardship program. The bill would require, on or before the end of the 2022–23 fiscal year, and once every 3 months thereafter, a stewardship organization to pay to the department an administrative fee to cover the department’s full costs of administering and enforcing the act, not to exceed the department’s actual and reasonable regulatory costs. This bill would authorize the department to impose an administrative civil penalty, except as specified, not to exceed $50,000 per day per violation on an entity that is not in compliance with the act’s requirements. Current Status: Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(a) of the Constitution on January 31, 2022. AB 1454 , The California Beverage Container and Litter Reduction Act. Assembly Member Bloom (D-Santa Monica). DEAD. SUPPORT. The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, which is administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, is established to promote beverage container recycling and provides for the payment, collection, and distribution of certain payments and fees based on minimum refund values established for beverage containers. The act requires the department to annually designate convenience zones on a statewide basis and requires that at least one certified recycling center or location that meets certain requirements be located within every convenience zone, with exemptions. The act defines convenience zone as either the area within a 1/2 mile radius of a supermarket or the area designated by the department in a rural region. This bill would allow the department to designate a regional convenience zone serving up to 5 unserved supermarket-based zones based on specified factors. This bill would require a certified bottle drop recycling program to pay the refund value of the beverage container as an electronic payment within 3 business days of redemption, if not paid onsite at the time of redemption. Because a violation of this requirement would be a crime under the act, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Current Status: Died in Senate Committee on Environmental Quality. AB 1690 , Vaping Waste Pollution Prevention Act. Assembly Member Rivas (D-Arleta). ORDERED INACTIVE 5/16/2022. This bill would prohibit a person or entity from selling, giving, or furnishing to another person of any age in this state a single-use electronic cigarette or a single-use integrated cannabis vaporizer, except as specified. The bill would prohibit that selling, giving, or furnishing, whether conducted directly or indirectly through an in-person transaction, or by means of any public or private method of shipment or delivery to an address in this state. This bill would authorize a city attorney, county counsel, or district attorney to assess a $500 civil fine against each person determined to have violated those prohibitions in a proceeding conducted pursuant to the procedures of the enforcing agency, as specified. Fact Sheet CPSC Coalition Letter of Support Current Status: Ordered inactive at the request of Assembly Member Luz on May 16, 2022. Press: Smoking Solution? California Bill Would Eliminate Litter Left Behind by Smokers - CBS Sacramento, 1/26/22 CA bill would ban cigarette filters, single-use vape pods - The Sacramento Bee, 1/25/22 No ifs, ands or butts: California bill would ban single-use smoking products like cigarette filters - Los Angeles Times, 1/25/22 AB 1724 , Washing machines: Microfiber filtration. Assembly Member Stone (D-Santa Cruz). SUPPORT. DIED 5/19/2022. This bill would require, on or before January 1, 2024, that all washing machines sold as new in California contain a microfiber filtration system. The bill would also require all state-owned washing machines to contain a microfiber filtration system with a mesh size of 100 microns or smaller. Current Status: Held in Assembly Appropriations. AB 1817 , Product safety: textile articles: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Assembly Member Ting (D-San Francisco). SUPPORT. SIGNED INTO LAW 9/29/2022. This bill would prohibit, beginning January 1, 2025, any person from manufacturing, distributing, selling, or offering for sale in the state any textile articles that contain regulated PFAS, and requires a manufacturer to use the least toxic alternative when replacing regulated PFAS in textile articles to comply with these provisions. The bill would require a manufacturer of a textile article that contains regulated PFAS to provide persons that offer the product for sale or distribution in the state with a certificate of compliance stating that the textile article is in compliance with these provisions and does not contain any regulated PFAS. CPSC STRAC Coalition Letter of Support Current Status: SIGNED INTO LAW 9/29/2022 AB 1953 , Drinking water: accessible water bottle refill stations. Assembly Member Maienschein (D-San Diego). SUPPORT. DIED 5/19/2022. This bill would require, by January 1, 2025, the owner or operator of a transit hub, local park, public building, publicly owned building, shopping mall, or municipal golf course that has a water infrastructure source to install and maintain at least one, or maintain at least one existing, accessible water bottle refill station, as prescribed and except as specified. The bill would also require those owners and operators that have a water bottle refill station that is not accessible to upgrade, by January 1, 2025, the water bottle refill station to an accessible water bottle refill station. By imposing additional requirements on local agencies that own or operate local parks, publicly owned buildings, or municipal golf courses, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. If installation or maintenance of, or upgrade to, an accessible water bottle refill station is not feasible, the bill would authorize substitution of an accessible water cooler or accessible drinking fountain bubbler. Coalition Letter of Support Current Status: Held in Assembly Appropriations. AB 2026 , Recycling: plastic packaging and carryout bags. Assembly Member Friedman (D-Burbank). DIED 8/2/2022. SUPPORT This bill would require an e-commerce shipper, as defined, that ships purchased products in or into the state to reduce from its 2022 2023 calendar year levels the total weight and number of units of single-use plastic shipping envelopes, cushioning, and void fill, and expanded and extruded polystyrene, it uses to ship or transport the products, by no less than unspecified percentages on or before January 1, 2030. The bill would establish exemptions from these prohibitions. The bill would make a violation of the foregoing requirements subject to civil penalties and would require penalties collected by the Attorney General to be deposited into the Plastic Packaging Reduction Penalty Account, which the bill would create, for expenditure by the Attorney General, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to enforce those requirements. Coalition Letter of Support Current Status: Placed in suspense files on August 2, 2022. AB 2208 , Fluorescent lamps: sale and distribution: prohibition. Assembly Member Klara (D-San Jose). SUPPORT. SIGNED INTO LAW 9/18/2022. This bill would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2024, a screw or bayonet base type compact fluorescent lamp, as defined, and, on and after January 1, 2025, a pin-base type compact fluorescent lamp or a linear fluorescent lamp, as defined, from being offered for final sale, sold at final sale, or distributed in this state as a new manufactured product. The bill would exempt various lamps that meet specified criteria from that prohibition, including lamps used for image capture and projection and lamps used for disinfection. Coalition Letter of Support Current Status: SIGNED INTO LAW 9/18/2022. AB 2247 , Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and PFAS products and product components: publicly accessible data collection interface. Assembly Member Bloom (D-Santa Monica). SUPPORT. VETOED BY GOV 9/29/2022. This bill would require, as part of the hazardous waste control laws, the department to contract with an existing multistate chemical data collection entity that is used by other states and jurisdictions to implement, by January 1, 2026, a publicly accessible data collection interface to collect information about perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and products or product components containing intentionally added PFAS. The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2026, and annually thereafter, a manufacturer, as defined, of PFAS or a product or a product component containing intentionally added PFAS that, during the prior calendar year, is sold, offered for sale, distributed, or offered for promotional purposes in, or imported into, the state to register the PFAS or the product or product component containing intentionally added PFAS, and specified other information, on the publicly accessible data collection interface. The bill would specify that the above requirements do not apply to certain products regulated by the United States Food and Drug Administration or products intended for certain animal uses that are regulated under certain federal laws. Veto Letter from Governor Coalition Letter of Support Current Status: VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR 9/29/2022 AB 2771 , Cosmetic products: safety. Assembly Member Friedman (D-Burbank). SUPPORT. SIGNED INTO LAW 9/29/2022. This bill would prohibit, beginning January 1, 2025, a person or entity from manufacturing, selling, delivering, holding, or offering for sale in commerce any cosmetic product that contains intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances PFAS, as defined. Coalition Letter of Support Current Status: SIGNED INTO LAW 9/29/2022. AB 2779 , Beverage containers: wine and distilled spirits. Assembly Member Irwin (D-Camarillo). DEAD. SUPPORT Existing law, the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, defines the term “beverage” to include certain types of products in liquid, ready-to-drink form and excludes, among other things, wine or wine from which alcohol has been removed. This bill would revise this definition of beverage to include wine, or wine from which alcohol has been removed, sold in an aluminum beverage container and distilled spirits sold in an aluminum beverage container. Since the additional payments for the beverage containers that this bill would make subject to the act would be deposited in a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation. The bill would also impose a state-mandated local program by creating new crimes relating to the regulation of beverage containers. This bill would additionally exempt distributors of wine sold in aluminum beverage containers and distributors of distilled spirits sold in aluminum beverage containers from those requirements. Current Status: Placed in suspense files on June 20, 2022. SB 38 , Beverage Containers. Senator Wieckowski (D-Fremont). SIGNED INTO LAW 9/30/2022. The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act requires every beverage container sold or offered for sale in this state to have a minimum refund value. Under the act, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery is required to calculate a processing fee for each beverage container with a specified scrap value, which is required to be paid by beverage manufacturers for each beverage container sold or transferred to a distributor or dealer, and requires a processor to pay a certified recycling center or other program the refund value, a percentage of the refund value for administrative costs, and the processing payment. The act provides that a violation of the act or a regulation adopted pursuant to the act is a crime. This bill would require a processor to make those payments by check or electronic fund transfer, and not by cash payment. By increasing the scope of a crime relating to beverage containers, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Current status: SIGNED INTO LAW 9/30/2022. Press: Tracking 2022 recycling laws by state - WasteDive, 11/29/22 SB 42 , Department of Toxic Substances Control: Board of Environmental Safety. Senator Wieckowski (D-Fremont). ORDERED INACTIVE 8/31/2022. This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2021 by revising “Congressman Pete Stark Ecological Reserve” to “Congressman Pete Stark Ecological Reserve at Eden Landing” within that appropriation and would rename the “Eden Landing Ecological Reserve,” as specified in certain regulations, the “Congressman Pete Stark Ecological Reserve at Eden Landing.” The bill would require the department to implement that name change and would provide that, notwithstanding any other law, commission approval is not required to implement the name change. Current status: Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Reyes on August 31, 2022. SB 54 , Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act. Senator Allen (D-Los Angeles). SUPPORT. SIGNED INTO LAW 6/30/2022. This bill would establish the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, which would cover certain single-use packaging and plastic single-use food service ware, as provided. As part of its comprehensive statutory scheme, the bill would require the producers, as defined, of these covered materials to source reduce plastic covered material, to ensure that covered material offered for sale, distributed, or imported in or into the state on or after January 1, 2032, is recyclable or compostable, and to ensure that plastic covered material offered for sale, distributed, or imported in or into the state meets specified recycling rates. In particular, the bill would require not less than 65% of plastic covered material to be recycled on and after January 1, 2032, and would authorize the department to increase or decrease the specified recycling rates in certain circumstances. The bill would require certain material types and forms to be considered recyclable in the state, and would authorize those material types and forms to be labeled as recyclable, under certain circumstances. Letter of Support Current status: SIGNED INTO LAW 6/30/2022. Press: California Passed a Landmark Law About Plastic Pollution. Why Are Some Environmentalists Still Concerned? - Inside Climate News - 10/12/22 CA Lawmakers Propose Package of New Laws Tackling Plastic Waste Reduction - Office of Senator Ben Allen, 3/9/21 SB 451 , Beverage container recycling: pilot projects. Senator Dodd (D- Napa). DEAD. This bill would authorize the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to establish a recycling pilot program for the collection and recycling of beverage containers. The bill would define the terms “beverage” and “beverage containers” for purposes of the pilot program to include certain beverage containers that are otherwise excluded for other purposes. The bill would make an appropriation by changing the terms and conditions under which the department is authorized to make payments from a continuously appropriated fund. The bill would require the recycling pilot program to include a requirement for a pilot project operator to submit to the department a pilot project plan with specified goals and elements, including that the pilot project operator provide the department with annual updates and a final report on or before April 1, 2026. The bill would require the department to review and approve, disapprove, or conditionally approve a pilot project operator plan within a reasonable timeframe. The bill would require the department to annually include an update on the recycling pilot program in a specified report to the Legislature. The bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2026, and would repeal them on January 1, 2027. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute. Current status: Died in Assembly Committee on Natural Resources. SB 983 , Consumer warranty protection: express warranties. Senator Eggman (D- Stockton). DIED 5/16/2022. This bill would instead require the manufacturer of an electronic or appliance product, in the above-described circumstances and timeframes, to make available, on fair and reasonable terms, sufficient service literature, at no charge, and prescribed functional parts and tools, including documentation, tools, software and parts needed to disable the lock or function during the course of the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of a product, to owners of the product, service and repair facilities, and service dealers. This bill would define terms for its purposes, and would provide that the above-specified provisions do not require a manufacturer to divulge a trade secret, except as may be necessary to provide service literature, documentation, tools, and parts on fair and reasonable terms. Coalition Letter of Support Fact Sheet Current status: Held in Senate Appropriations. SB 1013 , Beverage container recycling: reports: electronic submittal. Senator Atkins (D- San Diego). SUPPORT. SIGNED INTO LAW 9/27/2022 This bill would require a wine direct shipper permitholder, before sending any shipment to a resident of California, to register with the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery as a beverage manufacturer and distributor under the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act. The bill would require a wine direct shipper permitholder to comply with the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, including, but not limited to, the reporting and payment provisions applicable to the permitholder as a beverage manufacturer and distributor, and would authorize the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to suspend or revoke the wine direct shipper permit if the permitholder fails to comply with certain provisions of the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act. The bill would also authorize the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to adopt regulations related to the wine direct shipper permit. The bill would thereby impose a state-mandated local program by creating new crimes under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act. The bill would require, with respect to the payment of processing fees and redemption payments for beverages manufactured outside the state and sold directly to consumers within the state with a direct shipper permit, the beverage manufacturer or distributor to be deemed to be the person or entity named on the direct shipper permit issued pursuant to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, and would require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to provide related notice. Coalition Letter of Support Current status: SIGNED INTO LAW 9/27/2022 Press: Tracking 2022 recycling laws by state - WasteDive, 11/29/22 SB 1187 , Fabric recycling: pilot project. Senator Kamlager (D- Culver City). SUPPORT. SIGNED INTO LAW 9/28/2022. This bill would require the department to establish a pilot project of up to 3 years located in the Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura in partnership with garment manufacturers in order to study and report on the feasibility of recycling fabric, as specified. The bill would require the pilot project to be submitted by an applicant jurisdiction and designed to create a circular economy for the highest and best use of waste textiles. The bill would require the pilot project operator to annually report to the department, the amount, in pounds, of textiles that were collected and that were diverted from disposal in the prior year of the pilot project, among other information. The bill would require the pilot project to conclude no later than January 1, 2027. The bill would specify that any state funding provided for the pilot project is subject to an appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose. Fact Sheet Senate Environmental Quality Committee Hearing - April 27, 2022 Senate Environmental Quality Bill Analysis CPSC STRAC Coalition Letter of Support Current status: Signed into law 9/28/2022 SB 1255 , Single-use products waste reduction: Dishwasher Grant Program for Waste Reduction in K–12 Schools. (D- Glendale). SUPPORT. VETOED BY GOV ON 9/28/2022. This bill would establish the Dishwasher Grant Program for Waste Reduction in K–12 Schools, to be administered by the State Department of Education, to provide grants to school districts and charter schools for the purchase and installation of commercial dishwashers in school kitchens, as specified. The bill would require the department to award grants of up to $40,000 per kitchen of a school of an applicant school district or charter school, as specified. The bill would require the department to develop administrative guidelines for implementation of the program, as specified. The bill would require the department to develop materials and conduct outreach to those local educational agencies about the program, as provided. The bill would authorize, for purposes of the program, the department to enter into interagency agreements with other state agencies. The bill would make the implementation of these provisions contingent on an appropriation being made for its purposes by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute. Veto Letter from the Governor Coalition Letter of Support Current status: VETOED BY GOV ON 9/28/2022 General Info GENERAL INFO Find Your Legislator CA Legislation Info Tune in to free live we bcasts of California legislative hearing Assembly media archives

Solar panel recovery curriculum on reuse, repair, and recycling Curriculum Modules Additional Resources Take Action Updating Curriculum for Solar Panel Recovery As California accelerates its transition to renewable energy, community and technical education institutions play a vital role in preparing the next generation of solar technicians, repair professionals and sustainability leaders. The California Product Stewardship Council (CPSC), in collaboration with Federal, State, and Local Government support, is providing a Solar Panel Recovery Education Toolkit aimed at educators teaching about solar panel system design and installation. This curriculum guide outlines key educational modules that can be integrated into solar panel curricula and community awareness programs. These include components on reuse, repair, recycling, environmental and public health, climate impact, and job creation potential. These resources are provided for free adoption and customization opportunities. Educator Toolkit Curriculum The Educator Toolkit provides instructors with adaptable resources to integrate solar panel recovery into coursework, whether as standalone lessons or a full curriculum series. Each module: Design, Repair, Reuse, Recycling, and Advocacy, is supported by case studies, research, videos, and practical activities that can be tailored to different learning levels. By applying these tools, educators can engage students in real-world problem solving, from technical skills in diagnostics and repair to policy discussions on circular economy strategies. The toolkit ensures students understand solar panel lifecycles and connect local pilot outcomes with sustainability and climate goals. Module 1: System Design Module 2: Repair Module 3: Reuse Module 4: Recycling Module 5: Advocacy Module 1: Planning with end-of-life in mind Solar panel systems must be designed with their full lifecycle in mind, from material selection to end-of-life management. By anticipating reuse, repair, and recycling during the design stage, we can reduce premature waste and maximize both environmental and economic benefits. This module provides background information on how to plan for end-of-life when making system design and purchasing decisions. Decommission Plans In California, there are no statewide standards for decommission plans for solar panel installations. The written Plans describe how a solar installation will be dismantled, removed, managed, and the site restored at the end of it's operational life. Key elements often include the following topics, but often do not provide the level of detail on the material recovery processes as other established statewide recycling programs. Scope and schedule of activities Restoration and site reclamation Regulatory compliance and oversight Alternatives Financial assurance Decommissioning Plan Review Activity: Review this Plan submitted to the California Energy Commission for an installation in San Bernardino County, CA. Discussion Questions: Does the Plan provide enough detail to ensure the panels with be reused and recycled to the highest and best use at the time of de-install? What additional information is needed to track the de-installed panels to final disposition? Download Discussion Questions: Does the Plan provide enough detail to ensure the panels with be reused and recycled to the highest and best use at the time of de-install? What additional information is needed to track the de-installed panels to final disposition? Additional Suggested Activities for Educators: Find additional Decommissioning Plans from your region. Design-for-Disassembly Challenge: Redesign a mounting system for easy end-of-life recovery. Call local installers and ask how they advise on de-installation and safe management. GHG Modeling Incorporating reuse, repair, and recycling into Greenhouse Gas (GHG) modeling provides a holistic framework for evaluating the full lifecycle impact of the solar panel(s). By explicitly modeling the emissions avoided through reuse, repair, and recycling, this approach captures both the upstream and downstream effects, including avoiding extraction, manufacturing, and disposal emissions, as well as potential reductions in future production demand. Reuse and repair will increase solar panel adoption in new areas and innovative applications. "Recycling a ton of discarded solar panels has the effect of reducing 1.2 tons of greenhouse gases so this technique is the absolute key to achieve net-zero emissions." - Lee Jin-Seok, KIER Head Researcher (Fabtech, 2024) CPSC Pilots Research PLACEHOLDER FOR UPCOMING ARTICLE Download Read More Reuse GHG Modeling Research Reuse extends the life of solar panels, reduces GHG emissions, and establishes local circular economies that benefit households and underrepresented communities Download Read More Additional Resources: FabTech eBook 2025 – End-of-Life Solar Planning (Freeman, 2025). DOE – End-of-Life PV Action Plan Solar Photovoltaic System Design Basics - U.S. Department of Energy - This is an excellent resource for a broad overview of PV system design. "The Selection of the Best Solar Panel for the Photovoltaic System Design by Using AHP" (ResearchGate, 2016) - This study uses a multi-criteria decision-making method called the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to select the most suitable solar panel for a PV system. W. Ali, H. Farooq, A. U. Rehman, Q. Awais, M. Jamil and A. Noman, "Design Considerations of Stand-Alone Solar Photovoltaic Systems" .The authors emphasize the importance of accurately calculating the daily energy demand as the most critical step in the design process to ensure reliable system operation. Gan et al. (2023) highlighted that PV supply chains embed significant GHG emissions, making upfront circular design critical for long-term sustainability (Environmental Research Letters). Module 3: Extending the Life of Solar Systems Reusing solar panels extends their lifespan, reduces costs, and increases energy access in communities that need it most. Solar panel reuse represents one of the most exciting frontiers in circular economy innovation, offering significant yet largely untapped potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. By extending the lifespan of functioning panels through reuse and repair, communities can avoid the high emissions associated with manufacturing new ones while creating local economic and educational opportunities. This modules covers: Market pathways for second-life panels How functional panels can be redeployed elsewhere Case studies of reuse in California and abroad Regulatory Guidance According to the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), reusable panels may be resold, refurbished, or exported if they remain safe and functional. California prioritizes reuse first, followed by recycling in its waste management hierarchy. Learn more at DTSC solar panel FAQ CPSC Pilots Research CPSC’s Progress Report for Marin County (2024) found that 83% of unwanted panels collected in Marin County pilots were deemed reusable Download Read More Key Insights (FabTech 2025 eBook ) and CPSC Pilots: Refurbished panels are in demand by RV owners, farms, nonprofits, and off-grid users. Panels are sold at salvage value (3–10 cents per watt), making solar more affordable. Case study: FabTech helped divert 4,000 panels from landfill, repurposing them to power homes, farms, and RVs. Determining Best Use for Working Panels Once panels have been tested and confirmed to be functioning at an effective capacity, determining their best use should be guided by three key criteria: performance, market demand, and logistical feasibility. Performance refers to the remaining energy output relative to new panels and whether the panels meet standards for resale or secondary installation. Market demand considers where functional used panels can displace new manufacturing such as in community solar projects, low-income housing, or educational installations, maximizing environmental and social benefits. Finally, logistical feasibility as sesses transportation, installation costs, and regulatory requirements to ensure reuse is practical and cost-effective. Together, these criteria help ensure that every working panel achieves its highest and best use before being recycled. Performance : Visually inspect your panel for obvious signs of damage. Utilize testing technology to determine whether your panel has output capacity. If your panel is not broken and retains capacity, it can be repurposed or sold. Panels with a capacity of over 300 W have the highest resell value. Market Demand: Refurbished and reusable panels can be reinstalled as rooftop panels, or utilized as something knew. Whether reused panels are sold on reuse marketplaces, thrifts, or used for new products, the opportunity for solar reuse are thriving. Refurbished panels, repaired after minor damage, can be sold inexpensively. The lower price point makes it feasible for disadvantaged communities to access renewable energy. Donating panels can provide companies with tax and other incentives. Logistical Feasibility: Evaluating logistical feasibility starts with mapping where panels are stored, tested, and ultimately needed for their next use. First, identify nearby reuse markets or recycling facilities and calculate transport distances. Next, determine the safest and most efficient way to move panels (i.e. stacked on pallets, in gaylord boxes, or in specialized racks) to minimize breakage. Request quotes from haulers or installers familiar with fragile or hazardous materials, factoring in loading, unloading, and labor costs. Market Pathways for Reused Solar Panels Someone selling a used but working solar panel has several options to find the best value while keeping the panel in use. They can compare prices across online marketplaces that specialize in renewable energy equipment, contact local retailers or installers who may buy or trade used panels, or partner with community organizations seeking affordable solar solutions. Arizona Fabtech Nationwide Habitat for Humanity Virtual Energy Bin Virtual Meta Marketplace Another option is to repurpose the panel for their own creative project, such as powering small structures, garden lighting, or educational demonstrations. Exploring multiple resale or reuse pathways helps maximize both the financial return and the environmental benefit of extending the panel’s life. Perhaps the most compelling aspect of solar panel recovery is how it invites collaboration across creative disciplines from engineers and artists to educators and entrepreneurs; all of whom are finding inventive ways to repurpose panels for new installations, off-grid systems, and public projects. This intersection of climate action and creativity showcases how reuse can transform waste into a resource that powers both sustainability and imagination. Build a Micro-Grid Activity: Review this case study with the Reuse Alliance for instructions on building a microgrid with used solar panels. Instructions: Acquire necessary supplies, including at least one working solar panel. Assemble all of the wires and connections according to the case study. Test the solar panel and battery in direct sun. Download Discussion Questions: Does the Plan provide enough detail to ensure the panels with be reused and recycled to the highest and best use at the time of de-install? What additional information is needed to track the de-installed panels to final disposition? Additional Suggested Activities for Educators: Discussion question: What are other creative end-uses for used solar panels? Equity Debate: Debate whether reused panels should be exported or kept in local markets. Case Study: Analyze Fabtech Reuse case studies and Habitat for Humanity resale programs. Additional Resources: Chhillar, I., Sandhu, S., Parida, S., & Majewski, P. (2025). Certification for solar panel reuse: A systematic review of cross-sector practices and gaps. Sustainability, 17(13), Article 5995. This article propose a certification framework to facilitate the safe and effective reuse of panels by addressing key challenges and gaps in current practices. Piedrahita, A., Cárdenas, L. M., & Zapata, S. (2025) . Solar Panel Waste Management: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Path to a Circular Economy. Energies, 18(7), Article 1844. This paper examine the solar panel supply chain, waste generation, management practices, and the implementation of "6R" principles: Reuse, Repair, Refine, Reduce, Recycle, and Recover. "To Toss, Repair, or Recycle? How Human Behavior Affects the Fate of Aging Solar Panels" An article from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) that uses agent-based modeling to understand how people decide on the end-of-life management of PV modules. The study highlights that under current conditions, most panels are landfilled, and it discusses the need for policy and technology innovation to encourage recycling and reuse. Module 2: Safe Deinstallation and Repair Malfunctioning solar panels are often discarded even when repairs could restore years of service. Repair extends panel life, reduces waste, and builds workforce skills. This module covers Cleaning methods to extend the useful life How Panels are tested and fixed to restore their functionality The cost benefits of Solar Panel Repair Community Training and Installations Solar Panel Cleaning Proper cleaning is a critical step in both maintaining the performance and extending the operational life of solar panels in their original installation. Dust, debris, and residues can reduce energy output and accelerate wear on panels, so regular cleaning preserves efficiency and delays degradation. Additionally, leaning is an essential preparatory steps when panels are removed for reuse and recycling, as it ensure that materials are free of contaminants, simplifies inspection and repair, and improves the safety and quality of downstream recycling processes. Solar Panel Testing Before testing the capacity of used solar panels, you need to determine if it can be sold in the secondary marketplace. A panel can be sold if it has 10-15 years of life left, power output is ≥ 300-watts, does not have broken glass or damaged backsheets, is in working condition or repairable, and tests at 80% capacity or higher (FabTech, 2024). Here are steps to de-install and test a solar panel: Determine safest panel removal options and carefully de-install to avoid cracking the glass or frame. Acquire necessary testing equipment, such as a Multimeter device Check panel for cracks or exposed wires. If none, proceed. Plug device into panel after deemed safe and read the output. Determine next steps based on the reading on the device. See the reuse and recycling modules for more options. Multimeter Testing Demonstration Activity: Discussion Questions: When is it best to repair vs replace solar panels? What are some next steps after a panel is deemed working at capacity? Contact a local solar panel installer and ask if they can do a demonstration for your class on how to use and read a multimeter. They are a common tool for professional solar panel installers and electricians. Read More Cost-Benefits of Solar Panel Repair Repairing solar panels delivers both environmental and economic value by extending their lifespan, reducing waste, and avoiding the high costs of manufacturing new modules. CPSC pilot data show that more than half of collected panels were still functional and suitable for repair or reuse, preventing unnecessary disposal and conserving resources. Recent lifecycle modeling by Lofstad-Lie et al. (2024) found that repairing or selectively replacing defective modules can significantly improve system efficiency and cost-effectiveness, particularly when defects cause less than 30% power loss. These findings highlight that timely repair and reconditioning reduce emissions from new production while keeping solar energy affordable and accessible, especially for low-income communities Community Outreach and Installer Training Installer training programs are expanding through partnerships with community colleges and workforce boards to develop green jobs in solar diagnostics, repair, and recycling. Training modules emphasize safety procedures for deinstallation, hazardous material identification, and reuse testing standards aligned with DTSC universal waste guidelines. By equipping installers with these skills, California is building a sustainable workforce capable of supporting circular energy systems while reducing the environmental and financial burdens of improper panel disposal. Learn more: U.S Department of Energy Solar Workforce Development Additional Suggested Activities for Educators: Repair Cost Comparison Project: Compare the cost of repairing 100 decommissioned panels vs. purchasing new ones using market data. Panel Fault Diagnosis: Simulate diagnosing damage (loose wiring, cracked frames) and propose cost effective repair methods. Additional Resources: The Circular Economy in Solar: Advancing Sustainable Practices for Solar Installers (2025) - This article emphasizes how extending the lifespan of an existing panel through repair or refurbishment directly reduces the amount of electronic waste (e-waste) entering the waste stream. It also avoids the significant energy consumption and carbon emissions associated with manufacturing new panels. Life-Cycle Cost and Optimization of PV Systems (NREL Report) - This report models life cycle cost (LCC) of PV systems, including operation & management, performance degradation, replacement decisions, and design tradeoffs. Modeling Cost-Effectiveness of PV Module Replacement Based on Defect Power Loss - This open-access study models energy gain vs replacement cost for defective modules under varying conditions (e.g. location, defect severity). Reliability Analysis and Life Cycle Costing of Rooftop Solar PV Systems - The paper breaks down cost categories in the life cycle of rooftop PV capital, failure, decommissioning, operation & maintenance, and discusses tradeoffs in maintenance strategies. Module 4: Solar Panel Recycling Recycling ensures valuable materials like glass, aluminum, and silicon are recovered instead of landfilled. Developing efficient recycling pathways reduces environmental risks, conserves resources, and supports a resilient green economy. This module covers: Regulatory guidance for handling unwanted solar panels Recycling processes Emerging technologies and markets Regulatory Guidance DTSC defines PV modules as devices made of glass, frames, encapsulation, and metals that generate electricity. These include crystalline silicon and thin-film modules (CdTe, CIGS, perovskite, GaAs). Some materials (lead, cadmium, arsenic, selenium) may classify modules as hazardous if not designed carefully. Not all PV modules are hazardous, but older ones often fail toxicity tests due to heavy metals (lead, cadmium, selenium). DTSC allows non-hazardous PV modules to be managed as universal waste if sent to legitimate recyclers. These facilities must meet registration, permitting, and worker safety standards. Learn more at DTSC solar panel FAQ CPSC Pilots Case Study City of Santa Monica collection pilots showed recycling costs of $12–$20 per panel but avoided significant landfill liabilities. Download Read More Additional Suggested Activities for Educators: Look up your region on CPSC's solar panel reuse map and determine where is the closest DTSC approved recycler. Discussion question: What are some challenges to expanding safe solar panel recycling in State? Analyze Fabtech recycling case studies videos Play Video Play Video City of Santa Monica Solar Pilot Project Play Video Play Video Butte County Solar Pilot Project Play Video Play Video CPSC Solar Panel Reuse Hub featuring Zero Waste Marin and Marin Builders Association Key Insights (FabTech 2025 eBook ): Over 80% of a panel’s weight is recyclable, but specialized processes are required. Recycling costs average $12–$20 per panel (2025). Cheap recyclers may landfill 80% of a panel, creating long-term liabilities. Recycling improves ESG standing, avoids toxic impacts, and conserves resources. Recycling Processes Recycling solar panels is essential to recover valuable materials like glass, aluminum, silver, silicon, and copper, while reducing environmental risks from hazardous components such as lead and cadmium. Modern recycling processes combine mechanical, thermal, and chemical treatments to safely dismantle and extract these materials for reuse in manufacturing new panels and electronic components. Key Recycling Stages Include: Manual Dismantling - Panels are first separated from junction boxes, frames, and cables. Aluminum frames and copper wiring are removed for direct reuse or smelting. Mechanical Separation - Shredding or crushing breaks panels into smaller pieces. Density or magnetic separation then isolates glass, plastics, and metals for further processing. Example: Glass, which makes up about 70% of a panel, can be reused in new glass or insulation products. Material Refinement and Recrystallization - Recovered materials are refined and remelted to produce new wafers or feedstock for new markets, such as semi-conductors, reducing demand for virgin materials. Waste Management and Safety Controls - Hazardous residues (e.g., from cadmium telluride panels) are neutralized and safely stored following DTSC and EPA protocols to prevent contamination. Emerging End Markets As more solar panels reach the end of their life, new recycling methods are being developed to recover valuable materials and reduce waste. These technologies make it easier to reuse glass, metals, and silicon, turning old panels into new resources for clean energy and manufacturing Advance Mechanical Processing Automated dismantling and shredding systems recover clean materials like silicon, glass, and metals without contamination. Markets: Glass for insulation and new panels; aluminum for automotive parts. Learn more: PV CYCLE Recycling Process Pyrolysis Innovations Low-temperature pyrolysis separates encapsulant layers without toxic emissions, reclaiming intact silicon cells and metals. Markets: Silicon for new wafers; polymers for plastics or fuel conversion. Learn more: ROSI Solar Website Chemical and Hydrometallurgical Recovery New leaching and solvent extraction methods recover up to 95% of silver, copper, and lead from PV modules with high purity. Markets: Silver and copper for electronics; lead and tin for soldering and circuit boards. Learn more: IRENA Website Silicon Reclaim and Refinement Technologies Global innovators like ROSI Solar, SungEel HiTech, and First Solar reclaim high-purity silicon, glass, and aluminum from end-of-life panels. Markets: Silicon for semiconductors; aluminum and indium for high-tech alloys and coatings. Learn more: SungEel Hitech Website Additional Resources: "An Overview of Photovoltaic Module's End-of-Life Material Recycling Pathways " (Latinović et al., Ecological, 2022) offers a solid overview of the technological processes for PV recycling. Mao et al. (2024) showed recycling and upcycling of PV modules both result in significant GHG reductions compared to landfill disposal (Journal of Cleaner Production). Xia, S., Yang, Y., & Poon, J. P. H. (2025). How to tackle the looming challenge of solar PV panel recycling - reveals that the projected increase in PV module waste requires urgent coordinated solutions involving new technologies Mao et al. (2024) – Demonstrated that both upcycling and downcycling PV panels provide net negative GHG emissions compared to landfilling, supporting the need for specialized recycling infrastructure. Faircloth et al. (2019) – Found that PV waste recycling offsets thousands of kilograms of CO₂e, proving the environmental and economic value of recycling over disposal. Module 5: Shaping Policy and Promoting Stewardship Strong policies and advocacy are essential to make reuse and recycling the industry standard. By engaging communities, lawmakers, and industry leaders, advocacy helps shape a circular solar economy that protects health, the environment, and future generations. This module covers: Background on regulations in California Community outreach and installer training Equity considerations in solar access and waste management Regulatory Guidance California leads the nation in developing responsible end-of-life standards for solar panels, emphasizing safe handling, reuse, and recycling. Under current Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) guidance, solar photovoltaic (PV) modules are regulated as universal waste rather than hazardous waste, a temporary classification that simplifies management while maintaining safety and environmental standards. Key Policy Points PV modules are managed as universal waste under DTSC’s current policy. Modules that are reusable or repairable are classified as surplus material, not waste. Facilities handling universal waste PVs must be registered and meet DTSC standards for safe recycling. Learn more at DTSC solar panel FAQ Equity Considerations in Solar Access and Waste Management Equity is central to California’s solar circular economy vision. Access to clean energy and fair participation in end-of-life management ensures that environmental benefits are shared across all communities not concentrated in wealthier or urban areas. Many disadvantaged and rural regions still face barriers to affordable solar access, while also bearing a disproportionate share of environmental burdens from waste infrastructure. By prioritizing reuse programs, workforce training, and community collection sites in these areas, the state can align solar growth with environmental justice goals. Embedding equity into solar panel reuse and recycling ensures that California’s transition to clean energy is both inclusive and restorative, reducing pollution, preventing illegal dumping, and creating long-term green jobs. Prioritizing reuse programs, workforce training, and local collection events in underserved regions helps align solar growth with environmental justice goals. Learn more: California Energy Commission - Equity and Energy Access Initiative Active and Recently Passed Legislation California continues to update its solar waste management laws to support safe recycling and reuse. AB 864 (Ward) proposes to exempt non-hazardous solar panels from strict hazardous waste rules by classifying them as universal waste when sent to legitimate recyclers, while directing DTSC to develop long-term management standards and allowing reusable panels to be designated as surplus materials. Recent passed Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws such as SB 707 (Newman) for Textiles and SB 54 (Allen), Plastic Packaging are reshaping California’s recycling framework by holding manufacturers accountable for end-of-life management. These landmark policies provide a model for future solar EPR legislation, ensuring that producers share responsibility for recovery costs, material circularity, and pollution prevention. Illegal Dumping Case Study Download Review the CPSC Case study for more details and policy solutions. Read More illegal dumping and mismanagement of PV modules As the solar industry expands, improper disposal of decommissioned panels has become an emerging environmental concern. Panels are sometimes stockpiled, dumped, or mismanaged due to limited recycling options and uneven enforcement of waste rules. This practice threatens soil and groundwater quality, especially in areas already burdened by pollution. Download the CPSC Case study on illegal dumping to learn more. WA Solar Bill Texas HB 3228 PV recycling California AB 864 PV Recycling Policy Text Review Activity: Download Review this the text of this piece of legislation and review as a group the following discussion questions. Policy Workshops: Host discussions on California’s AB 864 and DTSC’s solar panel regulations to identify opportunities for improving waste classification or promoting reuse incentives. Letter-Writing Activities: Students can draft letters to local representatives or agencies (CalRecycle, DTSC, or legislative offices) to advocate for stronger recycling infrastructure or education funding for solar workforce programs. See CPSC Sample Letter on AB 864 here . Discussion Questions: Describe the mail goals and components of the legislation. How does the legislation provide convenient collection for solar panel owners? What are some ideas to improve the legislation to address tracking and reporting of collected materials? Additional Suggested Activities for Educators: Debate: Should California adopt mandatory Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for solar panels? Policy exercise: Students draft a one-page “EOL Policy Template” for a college solar project. Advocacy activity: Plan a public awareness campaign about solar waste. Community Solar Justice Project: Identify a community or region with limited solar access and propose a reuse or repair outreach initiative. P olicy Review: Texas HB 3228 mandating PV recycling. Research: SEIA – State Solar Policy Tracker Chowdhury (2024) emphasized the role of collaborative responsibility and blockchain-enabled EPR in scaling PV recycling (IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management) . Educators are invited to collaborate with the California Product Stewardship Council (CPSC) for an engaging guest lecture on solar panel reuse, repair, and recycling. Our experts share current research, policy insights, and local case studies to help students understand the growing circular economy around solar technology. CPSC can also connect classrooms with regional leaders advancing solar panel sustainability initiatives across California. Request Guest Lecture From CPSC RELEVANT AGENCIES, ASSOCIATIONS, AND NGOs Resources The table below presents links and descriptions of key organizations in the solar panel, repair, and recycling sector. These organizations offer valuable complimentary resources designed to promote sustainable practices in the industry. We invite you to explore this information to better understand how these entities contribute to extending the lifespan of solar panels and promoting environmental stewardship. Relevant Events Welcome to our Events Section dedicated to promoting initiatives around solar panel reuse, repair, and recycling. Join us for upcoming workshops, seminars, and community gatherings aimed at educating and inspiring sustainable practices in solar energy. If you have an event that aligns with this mission, please contact CPSC to have it featured here. Together, we can make a difference in the way we approach solar energy and its lifecycle. More details coming soon. What's next? Actionable steps to help you benefit from our expertise: Action Learn About CPSC Advocate For Policy Work With Us Solar Panel Curriculum Funding Sources

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATION All legislation shown on this page is specific to the state of California. Click on the year below to see California legislation related to CPSC's Mission each legislative session. 2026 LEGISLATION 2025 LEGISLATION PREVIOUS LEGISLATION GENERAL INFO 2026 LEGISLATION CPSC Sponsored Bills AB-80 , Carpet recycling: product stewardship for carpets: fines. Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry (D - Winters). SPONSORED BY CPSC. The act includes a product stewardship for carpet program and a successor carpet producer responsibility program, and requires the product stewardship for carpet program to become inoperative upon the completion of certain conditions related to the implementation of the successor carpet producer responsibility program. The product stewardship for carpet program requires a manufacturer of carpets sold in this state, individually or through a carpet stewardship organization, to submit a carpet stewardship plan to the department, which is required to include specified elements, including achieving specified carpet recycling rates and a funding mechanism that provides sufficient funding to carry out the plan. The program authorizes the department to administratively impose a civil penalty of $25,000 per day on any person in violation of the program if the violation is intentional, knowing, or negligent. Current Status: In committee: held under submission. 8/29/2025. CPSC Sponsor Letter of Support Coalition Letter and Sign On AB-762 , Single-use Vaping Devices Sales Ban. Assemblymembers Irwin (D - Thousand Oaks) and Wilson (D - Suisun City). SPONSORED BY CPSC, RethinkWaste, CAW, and CalPIRG. This bill would authorize a city, a county, a city and county, or the state, to enforce the above-described disposable, battery-embedded vapor inhalation device prohibition and to impose civil liability on a person or entity in violation of the prohibition in specified fine amounts, including $500 for the first violation. Current Status: Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and REV. and TAX. 5/20/2026. Co-Sponsor's Support Letter Coalition Letter of Support Sign On Fact Sheet Press Vape Waste Legislation and Pilots Increase Due to Facility Fire Issues - Waste Dive, 02/03/2026 Where 3 Key Waste and Recycling Bills Stand in California - Waste Dive, 06/09/2025 Let's End Disposable Vape Waste - Capitol Weekly, 04/24/2025 Lawmakers Propose First-of-Its-Kind Ban for Dangerous Product That Targets Children: 'Highlight the Costliness of This Problem' - The Cool Down, 03/12/2025 Illegal U.S. Vape Sales Worth at Least $2.4 Billion in 2024, Data Shows - Reuters, 02/24/2025 California Proposes Disposable Vape Ban - CStoreDecisions, 02/24/2025 California Bill Would Ban Single-Use Vapes. Lawmaker Cites Risks to Health, Safety, Environment - Sacramento Bee, 02/20/2025 California Lawmakers Propose Bill that Would Ban the Sale of Disposable E-Cigarettes - AP News, 02/19/2025 Citing Pollution Concerns, Ventura County Legislator Proposes Statewide Ban on Disposable Vapes - KCLU, 02/19/2025 AB-864 , Hazardous waste: solar photovoltaic modules. Assemblymember Ward (D - San Diego). CPSC LED. This bill would exempt solar photovoltaic modules not identified as hazardous waste and treated, except as provided, as universal waste, as defined, from state hazardous waste regulations, if transferred to a designated recycler for legitimate recycling, as described, and if the facility meets specified criteria relating to registration permits, as provided. The bill would make the universal waste designation applicable to a solar photovoltaic module that is intended for recycling and cannot otherwise be resold, reused, or refurbished only until the department adopts regulations implementing alternative management standards for solar photovoltaic modules. The bill would also designate a solar photovoltaic module that can be resold, reused, or refurbished as surplus material. The bill would make a conforming change. Current Status: Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator McNerney. 9/10/2025. CPSC Letter of Support CPSC Floor Alert AB-2462, Unsafe products: disposal: penalties. Asm. Pellerin (D - Santa Cruz). SPONSORED BY CPSC & CSAC. This bill would require the safe return or appropriate disposal of the unsafe product to be at no cost to the end consumer, a recycling center, a municipal facility that accepts the product for recycling or disposal, a retailer that sells the product, a permitted solid waste facility, a household hazardous waste collection facility, and a thrift retail store. This bill would authorize the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to administratively impose an administrative penalty on a person in violation of the act of $2,500 per day or $5,000 per day if the violation is intentional or knowing, as specified. The bill would require the department to establish through regulations a process by which the penalties will be assessed, including an informal hearing, as specified. Current Status: In committee: Held under submission. 5/14/2026. CPSC Coalition Letter Coalition Letter Sign On Fact Sheet Press Release SB-1010, Solid waste: Refrigerant Stewardship and Recovery Act. Sen. Ashby (D - Sac). SPONSORED BY CPSC. This bill would enact a stewardship program known as the Refrigerant Stewardship and Recovery Act, which would require a producer of certain household appliances containing refrigerants, known as “covered products,” to form and join a producer responsibility organization, or PRO. The bill would require the PRO to be approved by the department pursuant to the requirements of the bill, as provided. The bill would require the department to adopt regulations to implement the program no later than January 1, 2029. The bill would require the PRO to submit to the department, for approval or disapproval, a complete plan for the collection, transportation, consolidation, dismantling, refrigerant recovery, recycling, reclamation, destruction, and the safe and proper management of covered products in the state. Current Status: Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 9.) Ordered to the Assembly. 5/28/2026. Fact Sheet Coalition Letter or submit your own using the TEMPLATE Coalition Letter Sign On Other Bills AB-998 , Household hazardous waste: vape pens. Assemblymember Hadwick (R - Alturas). CPSC SUPPORT. Under this bill, a vape pen confiscated by a school as contraband is presumed to have been generated by a household and does not lose its status as household hazardous waste when properly managed and disposed of at a household hazardous waste collection facility or through a household hazardous waste collection program. The bill would impose the above-described conditions relating to the transport of hazardous waste on a school, as defined, or its contractor, transporting confiscated vape pens to a household hazardous waste collection facility. The bill would authorize a household hazardous waste collection facility to conduct physical treatment activities involving the disassembly of household hazardous waste to separate batteries, valves, electronic components and other parts containing liquids or gases, including, but not limited to, the disassembly of vape pens, in a manner that does not result in the unauthorized release of hazardous materials. The bill would make related conforming changes. Current Status: In committee: held under submission. 8/29/2025. TWO-YEAR BILL Coalition Letter of Support AB-1679, Local pop-up business program. Assemblymember Gonzalez (D - Los Angeles). This bill would require a city, including a charter city, county, or city and county, defined as a local jurisdiction, to establish a local pop-up business program to allow, notwithstanding any other law, temporary use of commercial space without requiring full compliance with standards applicable to permanent occupancy, as specified. The bill would require the temporary authorization granted by a local jurisdiction under a local pop-up business program to be conditioned on compliance with minimum public health, fire, building, and life-safety standards necessary to prevent immediate risk to occupants and the public. The bill would further require a local jurisdiction to provide written accessibility compliance guidance materials to an applicant. The bill would authorize a local jurisdiction to establish fees not exceeding the reasonable costs of program administration and create enforcement mechanisms and penalties for noncompliance. By requiring a city, including a charter city, county, or city and county to establish and administer a local pop-up business program, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Current Status: In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. 5/27/2026. AB-1780, Beverage containers: redemption payments: exemption. Assemblymember Rodriguez (D - Los Angeles). This bill would exempt a distributor from making redemption payments to the department for filled beverage containers containing the above-described beverages that the distributor donates to an organization located in California that is exempt from federal income taxation, as specified. The bill would require the distributor to prepare and maintain records of the donations, as specified. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Current Status: Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0.) In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment 5/21/2026. AB-1812, Solid waste: compostable products: regulations. Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry (D - Winters). Existing law prohibits a person from selling or offering for sale a product, as defined, that is labeled with the term “compostable” or “home compostable” unless, among others, the product is labeled in a manner that distinguishes the product from a noncompostable product upon reasonable inspection by consumers and to help enable efficient processing by solid waste processing facilities. Existing law authorizes the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to adopt regulations for determining whether products comply with this requirement. This bill would instead require the department to adopt regulations for determining whether products comply with this requirement. Current Status: In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. 5/27/2026. AB-2253, Solid waste: products: environmental marketing claims. Assemblymember Boerner (D - San Diego). CPSC SUPPORT IN CONCEPT Existing law requires a manufacturer or supplier making an environmental marketing claim relating to the recycled content of a plastic food container product to maintain specified information and documentation in written form in its records in support of that claim. This bill would expand those provisions from plastic food container products to all products. The bill would revise the reference to the Federal Trade Commission Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims to specifically refer to those guides as they read on January 1, 2026. The bill would additionally require the recycled content claim to be based on the actual physical recycled content in the product without the use of certain types of accounting. The bill would define “postconsumer” for purposes of these provisions. Current Status: In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. 5/28/2026. CPSC Support in Concept Letter AB-2667, Vape products: household hazardous waste: advertising. Assemblymember Hadwick (D - Redding). CPSC SUPPORT This bill would require, until January 1, 2030, the department to evaluate opportunities to increase safety and convenience related to the management and disposal of vape pens confiscated from students by a school, as provided, and identify any recommendations that require future legislative action. The bill would authorize a permanent household hazardous waste collection facility to mechanically disassemble vape pens and devices in a manner that does not result in the unauthorized release of hazardous materials, as specified. Current Status: Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.) 5/28/2026. CPSC Coalition Letter SB-14 , Solid waste: recycling: state agencies and large state facilities. Senator Blakespear (D- San Diego). CPSC SUPPORT. This bill would require a state agency , on or before July 15, 2027, each state agency to submit an adopted integrated waste management plan to the department for review and approval, and would, on or before January 1, 2028, require the department to complete its review of the plans, as specified. The bill would require a state agency’s annual report to include summaries of the state agency’s compliance with the requirement to reduce solid waste by 50% and the requirements relating to the adoption of an integrated waste management plan. This bill would, with certain exceptions, prohibit state agencies from entering into, modifying, amending, or renewing a contract, on or after January 1, 2026, to purchase single-use plastic bottles, as defined, made of less than 90% recycled plastic for internal use or resale and would require state agencies to take appropriate steps to replace the use of single-use plastic bottles at food service facilities with nonplastic, recyclable, and reusable alternatives, as specified. The bill would require the Department of General Services to ensure that any new, modified, or renewed agreements, contracts, or procurement undertaken by a food service facility as part of a contract or agreement with the Department of General Services comply with the bill, as specified. The bill would require state agencies to submit a report, on or before January 1, 2027, to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, confirming its compliance with these requirements. The bill would define a state agency for these purposes to include various agencies. Current Status: August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file. Set for hearing 8/29/2025. TWO-YEAR BILL. CPSC Letter of Support CPSC Floor Alert SB-501 , Responsible Battery Recycling Act of 2022: Covered Batteries. Senator Allen (D - Los Angeles). This bill would revise the description of a loose battery, for purposes of the definition of a covered battery, by providing that a key, application, or other locking device provided to the consumer by the producer of the product or battery that is warranted by the producer of the product or battery to serve solely to prevent theft of the battery or tampering by persons other than the consumer and not to inhibit the consumer’s ability to remove, replace, or recycle the battery would not prevent a battery from being considered designed to be easily removed from a product by the user of the product with no more than common household tools. The bill would instead exclude from the definition of a covered battery a primary battery weighing over 25 pounds and any rechargeable battery weighing over 25 pounds, regardless of the watthour rating. The battery recycling act requires all reports and records provided to the department to be provided under penalty of perjury. By expanding the scope of the act, the bill would expand the scope of the crime of perjury, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. Current Status: From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.S and T.M. 6/1/2026. Set for hearing 6/16/2026. Sponsor's Coalition Letter of Support CPSC's Letter of Support SB-561 , Hazardous waste: Emergency Distress Flare Safe Disposal Act. Senator Blakespear (D - Encinitas). This bill would create a manufacturer responsibility program for the safe and proper management of emergency distress flares. The bill would define “covered product” to include certain pyrotechnic devices that meet the criteria for household hazardous waste, as specified. The bill would require a manufacturer of a covered product, individually or through a manufacturer responsibility organization, to develop and implement a manufacturer responsibility plan for the collection, transportation, and the safe and proper management of covered products, as specified. The bill would establish a process and timeline for DTSC to review and approve, disapprove, or conditionally approve a plan and for the implementation of an approved plan. The bill would require that an approved plan be published on DTSC’s internet website, except for specified manufacturer data that would not be open to public inspection. The bill would prohibit DTSC from adopting regulations to implement the act with an effective date earlier than July 1, 2029. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Current Status: Referred to Com. on E.S and T.M. 06/09/2025. TWO-YEAR BILL. Sponsor's Coalition Letter of Support CPSC's Letter of Support CPSC Floor Alert SB-870 , Fuel-burning portable devices. Senator Cortese (D - San Jose). CPSC SUPPORT. Existing law prohibits a person from selling, offering for sale, or distributing cigarette lighters that do not comply with standards adopted by the State Fire Marshal with respect to safety features that prevent operation of the lighters by children 5 years of age or younger. This bill would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2027, a person from selling, offering for sale, or distributing in commerce in this state a fuel-burning portable device, as defined, unless it complies with a specified safety standard of the American Society for Testing Materials. Current Status: Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). 5/14/2026. CPSC's Letter of Support SB-931 , Diablo Canyon nuclear powerplant: Community Impacts Mitigation Program. Senator Laird (D - Santa Cruz). This bill would require the commission to ensure the continued full funding of the Community Impacts Mitigation Program for the extended operation of the Diablo Canyon nuclear powerplant, as provided. Because a violation of a commission action implementing the bill’s requirements would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Diablo Canyon nuclear powerplant. Current Status: Referred to Com. on U. and E. 5/26/2026. Set for hearing 6/10/2026. SB-936 , Nitrous oxide: sales. Senator Blakespear (D - Encinitas) & Senator Umberg (D - Santa Ana). - CPSC SUPPORT This bill would, except as specifically exempted, prohibit the sale and distribution of a nitrous oxide container that is capable of holding more than 8 grams of nitrous oxide or from which an individual may directly inhale nitrous oxide. The bill would also prohibit the sale and distribution of a nitrous oxide that has, or is marketed as having, the taste or smell of any food. The bill would prohibit the sale and distribution of a device that allows an individual to inhale nitrous oxide from the container or hold nitrous oxide for the purposes of inhalation. The bill would punish a violation of these provisions as an infraction, as specified. The bill would also authorize a court to suspend the business license, including a license to sell tobacco products or cannabis, if the business has a prior conviction for violating these prohibitions. Current Status: Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly. 5/22/2026. Coalition Support Letter SB-955, Beverage containers: supermarkets: reverse vending machines. Senator Blakespear (D - Encinitas). This bill, for the purpose of defining a “supermarket,” would increase the minimum gross annual sales to $5,000,000 and revise the description of items for sale. The bill would specify that a reverse vending machine certified to operate as a recycling center does not make an unserved convenience zone served. The bill would specify that a dealer cooperative or a mobile unit is not precluded from operating and receiving program payments in the same convenience zone as a reverse vending machine. The bill would specify that an existing certified recycling center is not ineligible for handling fees if a reverse vending machine is located in the same convenience zone. The bill would specify that a reverse vending machine is not ineligible for handling fees because another recycling center becomes certified to operate in the convenience zone in which the reverse vending machine is already certified. Current Status: Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. 6/1/2026. SB-1031, Solid waste: compostable products. Senator Blakespear (D - Encinitas). Existing law prohibits a person from selling or offering for sale a product, as defined, that is labeled with the term “compostable” or “home compostable” unless, among others, the product meets an applicable ASTM standard or has OK compost HOME certification. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions. Current Status: Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 9.) Ordered to the Assembly. 5/28/2026. SB-1123, Administrative Procedure Act: major regulations. Senator Wiener (D - San Francisco). CPSC SUPPORT This bill would require an agency, in estimating the economic impact of adopting, amending, or repealing a regulation, to identify and calculate any offsetting benefits, impacts, or savings that might result directly or indirectly from that adoption, amendment, or repeal and factor those benefits, impacts, or savings into its economic impact estimate. Current Status: Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 8.) Ordered to the Assembly. 5/26/2026. CPSC Support Letter 2025 LEGISLATION AB-80 , Carpet recycling: product stewardship for carpets: fines. Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry (D - Winters). SPONSORED BY CPSC. The act includes a product stewardship for carpet program and a successor carpet producer responsibility program, and requires the product stewardship for carpet program to become inoperative upon the completion of certain conditions related to the implementation of the successor carpet producer responsibility program. The product stewardship for carpet program requires a manufacturer of carpets sold in this state, individually or through a carpet stewardship organization, to submit a carpet stewardship plan to the department, which is required to include specified elements, including achieving specified carpet recycling rates and a funding mechanism that provides sufficient funding to carry out the plan. The program authorizes the department to administratively impose a civil penalty of $25,000 per day on any person in violation of the program if the violation is intentional, knowing, or negligent. Current Status: In committee: held under submission. 8/29/2025. CPSC Sponsor Letter of Support Coalition Letter and Sign On AB-762 , Single-use Vaping Devices Sales Ban. Assemblymembers Irwin (D - Thousand Oaks) and Wilson (D - Suisun City). SPONSORED BY CPSC, RethinkWaste, CAW, and CalPIRG. This bill would authorize a city, a county, a city and county, or the state, to enforce the above-described disposable, battery-embedded vapor inhalation device prohibition and to impose civil liability on a person or entity in violation of the prohibition in specified fine amounts, including $500 for the first violation. Current Status: In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. 04/29/2025. TWO-YEAR BILL. Co-Sponsor's Support Letter Coalition Letter of Support Sign On Fact Sheet Press Where 3 Key Waste and Recycling Bills Stand in California - Waste Dive, 06/09/2025 Let's End Disposable Vape Waste - Capitol Weekly, 04/24/2025 Lawmakers Propose First-of-Its-Kind Ban for Dangerous Product That Targets Children: 'Highlight the Costliness of This Problem' - The Cool Down, 03/12/2025 Illegal U.S. Vape Sales Worth at Least $2.4 Billion in 2024, Data Shows - Reuters, 02/24/2025 California Proposes Disposable Vape Ban - CStoreDecisions, 02/24/2025 California Bill Would Ban Single-Use Vapes. Lawmaker Cites Risks to Health, Safety, Environment - Sacramento Bee, 02/20/2025 California Lawmakers Propose Bill that Would Ban the Sale of Disposable E-Cigarettes - AP News, 02/19/2025 Citing Pollution Concerns, Ventura County Legislator Proposes Statewide Ban on Disposable Vapes - KCLU, 02/19/2025 AB-864 , Hazardous waste: solar photovoltaic modules. Assemblymember Ward (D - San Diego). CPSC LED. This bill would exempt solar photovoltaic modules not identified as hazardous waste and treated, except as provided, as universal waste, as defined, from state hazardous waste regulations, if transferred to a designated recycler for legitimate recycling, as described, and if the facility meets specified criteria relating to registration permits, as provided. The bill would make the universal waste designation applicable to a solar photovoltaic module that is intended for recycling and cannot otherwise be resold, reused, or refurbished only until the department adopts regulations implementing alternative management standards for solar photovoltaic modules. The bill would also designate a solar photovoltaic module that can be resold, reused, or refurbished as surplus material. The bill would make a conforming change. Current Status: Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator McNerney. 9/10/2025. CPSC Letter of Support CPSC Floor Alert AB-663 , Hydrofluorocarbon gases: sales and distribution prohibition: exemptions. Assemblymember McKinnor (D- Los Angeles). SUPPORT. This bill would eliminate the exemption for reclaimed hydrofluorocarbons and would instead create a new exemption for certified reclaimed refrigerants, as defined. By eliminating the exemption for reclaimed hydrofluorocarbons, the bill would expand the scope of a crime and thereby impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Current Status: Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m. 9/11/2025. CPSC Letter of Support AB-823 , Solid waste: plastic microbeads: plastic glitter. Assemblymember Boerner (D - Encinitas). This bill would, on and after January 1, 2027, prohibit a person from selling, distributing, or offering for promotional purposes in this state a cleaning product, as defined, or a personal care product in a rinse-off product, containing one ppm or more by weight of plastic microbeads that are used as an abrasive, as specified. The bill would, on and after January 1, 2028, prohibit a person from selling, distributing, or offering for promotional purposes in this state a coating, as defined, cleaning product, or personal care product, that contains one ppm or more by weight of plastic microbeads that are not used as an abrasive. By adding these prohibitions to the Plastic Microbeads Nuisance Prevention Law, the bill would impose the civil penalty for violations of these prohibitions. Current Status: Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m. 9/9/2025. Coalition Letter of Support Sign-on Coalition Letter Fact Sheet AB-916 , Safer Soap Act. Assemblymember Lee (D - Milpitas). CPSC SUPPORT Existing law prohibits various ingredients in consumer products for the protection of the health of Californians, including, among others, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances in juvenile products, textile articles, and food packaging, and intentionally added Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate in intravenous solution containers, as specified. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2028, prohibit a person or entity from manufacturing, selling, delivering, distributing, or offering for sale, into commerce in this state consumer hand soap or body wash that contains a prohibited ingredient, which includes substances such as benzalkonium chloride, among others. The bill would not apply to products intended for use in health care facilities. Current Status: Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10 (c) of the Constitution. 1/31/2026. Letter of Support Legal Analysis Fact Sheet AB-942 , Net energy metering: eligible customer-generators: tariffs. Assemblymember Calderon (D - Whitter). This bill would, on and after January 1, 2026, for a customer that becomes a new eligible customer-generator by purchasing real property that contains a renewable electrical generation facility upon which a prior eligible customer-generator took service, require the new eligible customer-generator to take service under the then-current applicable tariff adopted by the commission after December 1, 2022, would disqualify the new eligible customer-generator from eligibility for the avoided cost calculator plus glide path, as specified, and would require the new eligible customer-generator to pay all nonbypassable charges that are applicable to customers that are not eligible customer-generators. This bill would authorize the commission to adopt a new tariff for an above-described eligible customer-generator that has taken service pursuant to NEM 1.0 or 2.0 for 10 or more years, or a new eligible customer-generator that purchased real property that contains a renewable electrical generation facility, and to require those eligible customer-generators to use that new tariff if it results in a lower cost impact on customers who are not eligible customer-generators than the prior tariff that was applicable to those eligible customer-generators, as provided. Current Status: From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29). Re-referred to Com. on RLS. 8/29/2025. CPSC Opposition Letter AB-998 , Household hazardous waste: vape pens. Assemblymember Hadwick (R - Alturas). CPSC SUPPORT. Under this bill, a vape pen confiscated by a school as contraband is presumed to have been generated by a household and does not lose its status as household hazardous waste when properly managed and disposed of at a household hazardous waste collection facility or through a household hazardous waste collection program. The bill would impose the above-described conditions relating to the transport of hazardous waste on a school, as defined, or its contractor, transporting confiscated vape pens to a household hazardous waste collection facility. The bill would authorize a household hazardous waste collection facility to conduct physical treatment activities involving the disassembly of household hazardous waste to separate batteries, valves, electronic components and other parts containing liquids or gases, including, but not limited to, the disassembly of vape pens, in a manner that does not result in the unauthorized release of hazardous materials. The bill would make related conforming changes. Current Status: In committee: held under submission. 8/29/2025. TWO-YEAR BILL Coalition Letter of Support AB-1148 , Food packaging: hazardous chemicals. Assemblymember Sharp-Collins (D - San Diego). CPSC SUPPORT. This bill would authorize the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt regulations to restrict or prohibit the distribution, sale, or offering for sale in the state of food packaging that contains intentionally added antimony trioxide, bisphenols, or ortho-phthalates, as specified. The bill would authorize the Department and the Attorney General to enforce the restrictions or prohibition and would subject a person to an administrative or civil penalty not to exceed $5,000 for the first violation of the restriction or prohibition and not to exceed $10,000 for each subsequent violation, as specified. The bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, authorize funds in the Toxic Substances Control Account to be used by the department to implement these provisions. Current Status: From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q. 06/17/2025. TWO-YEAR BILL. SB-14 , Solid waste: recycling: state agencies and large state facilities.. Senator Blakespear (D- San Diego). CPSC SUPPORT. This bill would require a state agency , on or before July 15, 2027, each state agency to submit an adopted integrated waste management plan to the department for review and approval, and would, on or before January 1, 2028, require the department to complete its review of the plans, as specified. The bill would require a state agency’s annual report to include summaries of the state agency’s compliance with the requirement to reduce solid waste by 50% and the requirements relating to the adoption of an integrated waste management plan. This bill would, with certain exceptions, prohibit state agencies from entering into, modifying, amending, or renewing a contract, on or after January 1, 2026, to purchase single-use plastic bottles, as defined, made of less than 90% recycled plastic for internal use or resale and would require state agencies to take appropriate steps to replace the use of single-use plastic bottles at food service facilities with nonplastic, recyclable, and reusable alternatives, as specified. The bill would require the Department of General Services to ensure that any new, modified, or renewed agreements, contracts, or procurement undertaken by a food service facility as part of a contract or agreement with the Department of General Services comply with the bill, as specified. The bill would require state agencies to submit a report, on or before January 1, 2027, to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, confirming its compliance with these requirements. The bill would define a state agency for these purposes to include various agencies. Current Status: August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file. Set for hearing 8/29/2025. TWO-YEAR BILL. CPSC Letter of Support CPSC Floor Alert SB-45 , Recycling: beverage containers: tethered plastic caps. Senator Padilla (D - San Diego). CPSC SUPPORT. The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, which is administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, is established to promote beverage container recycling. Existing law authorizes the department, subject to the availability of funds, to pay a quality incentive payment of up to $180 per ton to qualified recyclers for thermoform plastic containers diverted from curbside recycling programs, as provided. This bill would delete that authorization. The bill would instead require, on and after January 1, 2027, beverage containers, as defined, intended for sale in this state, to have a cap that is tethered to the container that prevents the separation of the cap from the container when the cap is removed from the container by the consumer. The bill would exempt beverage containers with a capacity of 3 liters or more from the scope of the bill. By creating a new requirement under the act, a violation of which would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. Current Status: Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Sponsor's Coalition Letter of Support Sign-On Coalition Letter of Support SB-235 , Recycling: precious metals and critical minerals: report. Senator McNerney (D - Stockton). Existing law establishes in the California Environmental Protection Agency the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, which administers various solid waste management and recycling programs. This bill would require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to draft and submit a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2028, relating to the in-state collection, recycling, reuse, and stockpiling for domestic consumption of precious metals, critical minerals, as defined, and other similar valuable materials as reasonably decided by the department, contained within products in the state, as specified. The bill would require the department to provide opportunities for public input and to perform outreach to potentially interested parties, as specified. Current Status: Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. CPSC Letter of Support SB-501 , Household Hazardous Waste Producer Responsibility Act. Senator Allen (D - Los Angeles). This bill would create a producer responsibility program for products containing household hazardous waste and would require a producer responsibility organization (PRO) to ensure the safe and convenient collection and management of covered products at no cost to consumers or local governments. The bill would define “covered product” to mean a consumer product that is ignitable, toxic, corrosive, or reactive, or that meets other specified criteria. The bill would require a producer of a covered product to register with the PRO, which would be required to develop and implement a producer responsibility plan for the collection, transportation, and the safe and proper management of covered products. The bill would require DTSC to adopt regulations to implement the program with an effective date no earlier than July 1, 2028. The bill would require the PRO, within 12 months of the effective date of the regulations, to submit a producer responsibility plan to DTSC. The bill would require the plan to include specified elements, including a funding mechanism to fully fund the PRO and the program. The bill would require, within 6 months of receipt of the plan, DTSC to approve, approve in part, or disapprove the plan, as specified. The bill would require DTSC to notify the PRO of its decision. Current Status: May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. 5/23/2025. TWO-YEAR BILL. Sponsor's Coalition Letter of Support CPSC's Letter of Support SB-561 , Hazardous waste: Emergency Distress Flare Safe Disposal Act. Senator Blakespear (D - Encinitas). This bill would create a manufacturer responsibility program for the safe and proper management of emergency distress flares. The bill would define “covered product” to include certain pyrotechnic devices that meet the criteria for household hazardous waste, as specified. The bill would require a manufacturer of a covered product, individually or through a manufacturer responsibility organization, to develop and implement a manufacturer responsibility plan for the collection, transportation, and the safe and proper management of covered products, as specified. The bill would establish a process and timeline for DTSC to review and approve, disapprove, or conditionally approve a plan and for the implementation of an approved plan. The bill would require that an approved plan be published on DTSC’s internet website, except for specified manufacturer data that would not be open to public inspection. The bill would prohibit DTSC from adopting regulations to implement the act with an effective date earlier than July 1, 2029. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Current Status: Referred to Com. on E.S and T.M. 06/09/2025. TWO-YEAR BILL. Sponsor's Coalition Letter of Support CPSC's Letter of Support CPSC Floor Alert SB-615, Vehicle Traction Batteries. Senator Allen (D - Los Angeles) . This bill would require a battery supplier, as defined, to be responsible for, among other duties, ensuring the responsible end-of-life management of a vehicle traction battery if it is removed from a vehicle that is still in service, as provided, or if the vehicle traction battery is offered or returned to its battery supplier, and reporting information regarding the sale, transfer, or receipt of a vehicle traction battery or module to the department, as provided. The bill would impose related duties on a secondary user, as defined, and a secondary handler, as defined, including, among other duties, ensuring the responsible end-of-life management for a vehicle traction battery or returning a vehicle traction battery to the battery supplier, and reporting information regarding the sale, transfer, or receipt of a vehicle traction battery or module to the department as provided. The bill would also require an auctioneer, as defined, and salvage disposal auction, as defined, to report similar information regarding a vehicle traction battery to the department. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Current Status Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry. 9/9/2025. SB-682 , Environmental health: product safety: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Senator Allen (D - Los Angeles). Existing law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control, on or before January 1, 2029, to adopt regulations to enforce specified covered perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) restrictions, which include prohibitions on the distribution, sale, or offering for sale of certain products that contain specified levels of PFAS. This bill would, beginning January 1, 2027, prohibit a person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale a covered product that contain intentionally added PFAS, as defined, except for previously used products and as otherwise preempted by federal law. The bill would define “covered product” to include cleaning products, cookware, dental floss, juvenile products, food packaging, and ski wax, as specified. This bill would, beginning January 1, 2040, prohibit a person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale certain products that contains intentionally added PFAS, including, but not limited to, refrigerants, solvents, propellants, and clean fire suppressants, as specified, unless the department has made a determination that the use of PFAS in the product is a currently unavoidable use, the prohibition is preempted by federal law, or the product is previously used. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Current Status Vetoed by Governor. 10/13/2025. Sponsor's Coalition Letter of Support Previous Leg PREVIOUS LEGISLATION Successful legislation sponsored or supported by CPSC and examples of our advocacy. 2024 Legislation 2022 Legislation 2020 Legislation 2023 Legislation 2021 Legislation 2019 & Older GENERAL INFO Find Your Legislator CA Legislation Info Tune in to free live webcas ts of California legislative hearings Assembly media archives

EVENT INFO SPONSORS & EXHIBITORS AGENDA About the Event Join us for a FREE textile recycling workshop hosted by the California Product Stewardship Council (CPSC) and the Santa Barbara Regional Recycling Market Development Zone (RMDZ), funded by CalRecycle, on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM at Goleta Community Center . You are welcome to join at your convenience and stay as long as you can. The workshop will include keynote speakers, demonstrations, and endless opportunities to learn about the world of textiles and why reducing textile waste is so critical. The workshop aims to expand responsible textile recovery in Santa Barbara County by exploring partnerships, feedstocks, and local service opportunities for textile reuse, repair, and recycling and other green design considerations for textile circularity. See exhibits from leaders in the textile industry, and opportunities to network and discuss textile recovery opportunities. Participants will walk away understanding the potential for textile circularity and recycling in California. Location: Goleta Community Center 5679 Hollister Ave, Goleta, CA Date: April 9, 2024 Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Cost: FREE About Event Sponsors Sponsors Additional Sponsors Added Weekly. We're looking for more sponsors. Donations are on a sliding scale and tax deductible. Sponsor Exhibitors Exhibitors Exhibit Agenda Agenda 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM 9:15 AM - 9:45 AM 9:45 AM - 10:15 AM 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM 2:00 PM Welcome with refreshments Welcome: Santa Maria Chamber of Commerce Land Acknowledgement and Keynote: Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation Speaker: Toad & Co. Speaker: UCSB Bren School of the Environment Speaker: Fibershed Speaker: California Product Stewardship Council Rotational Workshops: Station 1: Fiber identification and problems with textile waste featuring handheld NIR devices. Station 2: Repair, redesign, and recycling opportunities featuring global recyclers, and local repair businesses and designers. Station 3: Green Design featuring big and small brands Station 4: Solutions featuring active pilot projects and policies at the state level (SB 707 by Senator Newman) and Los Angeles local ordinance Event wrap-up RSVP Speakers Speaker Bios Dave Cross Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce Maria Elena “Mia” Lopez Wishtoyo Sarah Palladino Toad&Co Roland Geyer UC Santa Barbara Bren School of Environmental Science & Management Lesley Roberts Southern California Fibershed Joanne Brasch California Product Stewardship Council Want to know more about CPSC’s work on textiles? Visit out textile webpage: www.calpsc.org/cpsc-textilestewardship

2020 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATION 2020 AB 995 , Hazardous Waste. Assembly Member Garcia (D- Downey). SUPPORT. VETOED BY GOV ON 9/29/20. This bill would create the Board of Environmental Safety in the California Environmental Protection Agency and require the board to conduct no less than 6 public meetings per year. The bill would provide for the duties of the board, which would include, among others, reviewing specified policies, processes, and programs within the hazardous waste control laws; proposing statutory, regulatory, and policy changes; and hearing and deciding appeals of hazardous waste facility permit decisions and establish an office of ombudsperson to receive complaints and suggestions from the public. This bill would require the department to review, at least once every 5 years, the financial assurances required to operate a hazardous waste facility and the cost estimates used to establish the amount of financial assurances required. The bill would require the department, no later than 90 days after receiving an application for a hazardous waste facilities permit, to post on its internet website a timeline with the estimated dates of key milestones in the application review process. This bill would repeal the provision making implementation of the act contingent upon, and limited to, the availability of funding on January 1, 2023. Current Status: This is a two-year bill . Referred to Senate Floor to be heard on TBD. AB 1080 , California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act. Assembly Members Gonzalez, Calderon, Friedman, and Ting. SUPPORT. FAILED TO PASS. This bill would enact the California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act, which establish the policy goal of the state that, by 2030, manufacturers and retailers achieve a 75% reduction of the waste generated from single-use packaging and products offered for sale or sold in the state through source reduction, recycling, or composting. CPSC Letter of support to the authors CPSC & NSAC joint letter of support Current Status: Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 12.). Press : Proposed plastics fee and other Calif. legislative news - Plastics Recycling Update, 7/10/19 AB 1171 , Solid waste: food packaging material: local regulation. Assembly Member Chen (D-Brea). OPPOSE. DIED ON 1/31/20. This bill would prohibit a city, county, city and county, or other local public agency from requiring a grocery store, as defined, to use a certain type of food packaging for any food sold in the grocery store unless the majority of residential households within the jurisdiction of the local agency have access to a curbside program that accepts the material from which that food packaging is made. The bill would prohibit those local agencies from prohibiting a grocery store from using a certain type of food packaging for any food sold in the grocery store if a majority of residential households within the jurisdiction of the local agency have access to a curbside program that accepts the material from which that food packaging is made. The bill would require a local agency, if it requires a grocery store to use a certain type of food packaging, to identify the type of food packaging using standardized specifications, active at the time of the enactment of the requirement, from an established national or international organization, as provided. CPSC opposes this bill. Current Status: This is a two-year bill. Died on 1/31/20 - Did not get out of the House of origin. AB 1509 , Lithium Ion Batteries. Assembly Member Mullin (D-San Mateo). CO-SPONSORED BY CPSC , SBWMA , AND CAW . FAILED TO PASS. This bill would establish the lithium-ion battery recycling program in CalRecycle and would authorize a retailer to achieve the recycling rates for covered battery-embedded products through a take-back program or other specified mechanism. Fact Sheet CPSC-NSAC Joint Letter of Support Current Status: Referred to the Committee on Rules . Hearing date TBD. Press : Bill supports proper recovery of MRF hazard - Resource Recycling, 7/30/19 AB 1672 , Solid Waste: premoistened nonwoven disposable wipes. Assembly Member Bloom (D-Santa Monica). CO-SPONSORED BY CASA AND NSAC. SUPPORT. FAILED TO PASS. This bill would require, commencing January 1, 2021, except as provided, certain nonwoven disposal products to be labeled clearly and conspicuously to communicate that they should not be flushed, as specified. The bill would prohibit a covered entity, as defined, from making a representation about the flushable attributes, benefits, performance, or efficacy of those nonwoven disposal products, as provided. The bill would establish enforcement provisions, including authorizing a civil penalty not to exceed $2,500 per violation to be imposed on a person who violates the bill’s provisions. Coalition Joint Letter of Support CASA Fact Sheet Senate EQ Fact Sheet CASA’s Model Letter of Support Assembly Floor Alert Current Status: Placed on suspense by Senate Appropriations. AB 1952 , Microfiber Filters. Assembly Member Stone (D- Santa Cruz). SUPPORT. FAILED TO PASS. This bill, beginning January 1, 2022, would require all washing machines owned or operated by a state entity, as defined, to include a microfiber filter, and would require state entities to install a microfiber filter on any washing machines owned or operated by the state entity before January 1, 2022. The bill, beginning January 1, 2022, would require every contract entered into, renewed, or extended by a state entity for laundry services to require the washing machines used to contain microfiber filters or to have filters installed on all drain lines, and would require the Department of General Services to adopt regulations for these purposes before January 1, 2022. Current Status: Referred to the Committee on Accountability and Administrative Review on 2/6/20 to be heard TBD. AB 1989 , Menstrual Products Right to Know. Assembly Member Garcia (D- Downey). WATCHING. SIGNED INTO LAW 9/29/20. This bill would require a package or box containing menstrual products that was manufactured for sale or distribution in this state on or after January 1, 2023, to have printed on the label a plain and conspicuous list of all ingredients in the product, by weight. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. Current Status: Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.). AB 2287 , Plastic Product Compostability Certification. Assembly Member Eggman (D- Stockton). SIGNED INTO LAW 9/29/20. This bill would authorize CalRecycle to issue guidelines for determining whether a plastic product is not compliant with these labeling requirements, and whether a plastic product is designed, pigmented, or advertised in a manner that is misleading to consumers. The bill would authorize the director to adopt a specified standard for biodegradable mulch film plastic and would authorize the sale of commercial agricultural mulch film, as defined, labeled with the term “soil biodegradable” only if the commercial agricultural mulch film meets, and the director adopts, that specified standard. The bill would authorize the Department to adopt regulations for plastic product labeling to ensure that plastic products labeled “compostable,” “home compostable,” or “marine degradable” are clearly distinguishable upon quick inspection by consumers and solid waste processing facilities. The bill would update the name of a specified certification for home compost and the name of the organization that developed that certification and would make other conforming changes. Current Status: Referred to Senate Floor to be heard on TBD. AB 2762 , Cosmetics: Safety. Assembly Member Muratsuchi (D- Los Angeles). SUPPORT. SIGNED INTO LAW 9/30/20. This bill would additionally prescribe that a cosmetic is adulterated if it contains any of several specified intentionally added ingredients or another chemical identified by the department, except under specified circumstances. This bill would specify that it is a violation of the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law to fail to comply with guidelines or instructions issued by the division to implement the act. Coalition Support Letter Current Status: Referred to Senate Floor to be heard on TBD. SB 54 , California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act. Senator Allen (D-Los Angeles). SUPPORT. FAILED TO PASS. This bill would enact the California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act, which establish the policy goal of the state that, by 2030, manufacturers and retailers achieve a 75% reduction of the waste generated from single-use packaging and products offered for sale or sold in the state through source reduction, recycling, or composting. SB 54 (Allen) & AB 1080 (Gonzalez) Fact Sheet CPSC Letter of support to the author s CPSC & NSAC joint letter of support American Chemistry Council's letter of opposition Current status: Ordered to inactive file on Assembly Floor. SB 312 , Cosmetics: right to know. Senator Leyva (D- Chino). SUPPORT. SIGNED INTO LAW 9/30/20. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2022, require a manufacturer of a cosmetic product sold in the state to disclose to the Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control a list of each fragrance ingredient or flavor ingredient that is included on a designated list and a list of each fragrance allergen that is present in the cosmetic product in specified concentrations. The bill would require the division to post on its existing database of cosmetic product information a list of those fragrance ingredients and flavor ingredients in the cosmetic product and its associated health hazards. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. CPSC Letter of Support Current status: Referred to the Senate Floor on concurrence to be heard on TBD. SB 372 , Single-use plastic products: extended producer responsibility. Senator Wieckowski (D-Fremont). DIED ON SENATE FLOOR. This bill requires distributors of beverage containers to form a stewardship organization to develop and submit a plan and budget for the recovery and recycling of empty beverage containers similar to that described in the Used Mattress Recovery and Recycling Act, and would require a stewardship fee to be paid by distributor members of the organization, to assist in covering the costs of implementing the program, reimburse the department for the department’s costs of enforcement, and face administrative civil penalties for a violation. CPSC Letter of Support Current status: This is a two-year bill. Died on the Senate Floor on 1/29/20. SB 424 , Tobacco products: single-use and multi-use components (Tobacco Waste). Senator Jackson (D-Santa Barbara). SPONSORED BY NSAC . SUPPORT. FAILED TO PASS. This bill would prohibit a person or entity from selling, giving, or furnishing to another person of any age in this state a cigarette utilizing a single-use filter made of any material, an attachable and single-use plastic device meant to facilitate manual manipulation or filtration of a tobacco product, and a single-use electronic cigarette or vaporizer device. This bill would also prohibit that selling, giving, or furnishing, whether conducted directly or indirectly through an in-person transaction, or by means of any public or private method of shipment or delivery to an address in this state. SB 424 Fact Sheet SB 424 Coalition Support Assembly Health CPSC-NSAC Joint Letter of Support Current Status: Referred to Assembly Committee on Health and Assembly Committee on Governmental Organization. Held as a two-year bill. Passed from the Senate Floor on 5/24/19 with a 25-9 vote. Heard Senate Committee on Appropriations on 5/16/19, passed with a 4-2 Vote. Bill amended to remove e-hookahs without authors or sponsors approval. Press: Study Raises Concern About E-Cigarette Waste - FairWarning, 10/24/19 Cigarette butts are toxic plastic pollution. Should they be banned? - National Geographic, 8/9/19 Disturbing Photo Shows a Black Skimmer Feeding a Cigarette Butt to Its Chick - Audubon, 8/1/19 The Worlds Most Littered Item Comes Under Fire - Wall Street Journal, 7/31/19 Surfrider Foundation partners with SLO County Tobacco Control to clean up Avila Beach cigarette butts - KSBY, 7/20/19 Central Coast landfill managers see single-use e-cigs, batteries as a growing waste problem - KSBY, 7/8/19 Why a California lawmaker wants to ban cigarette filters and disposable vapes - CalMatters, 6/25/19 Cigarette Waste: New Solutions for the World’s Most-littered Trash - The Revelator, 6/24/19 Bill to Combat Tobacco Waste Passes California Senate - Waste360, 6/6/19 Bill Proposed to Cut Toxic Cigarette Waste - Santa Barbara Independent, 5/20/19 Big Tobacco and e-cigarette companies should help clean up their mess - CalMatters, 5/13/19 California Senator Introduces Bill Aimed at Combating Tobacco and Electronic Waste - Vaping Post, 5/7/19 Sign the Surfrider petition to contact your legislator to support SB 424 SB 1152 , Solar panels: disposal: labeling. Senator Skinner (D-Berkeley). SPONSORING. FAILED TO PASS. This bill would require, on and after January 1, 2023, a manufacturer of a solar panel sold in California to include a permanently affixed label that provides information necessary to facilitate proper disposal or recycling of the solar panel at the end of its useful life. The bill would require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and the Public Utilities Commission, to develop regulations implementing that labeling requirement, as provided. Current status: Referred to the Senate Committee on Rules, hearing date TBD. SB 1156 , Lithium-ion batteries: illegal disposal. Senator Archuleta (D- Los Angeles). SUPPORT. FAILED TO PASS. This bill would prohibit a person from knowingly disposing of a lithium-ion battery in a container that is intended for the collection of solid waste or recyclable materials, unless the container or receptacle is designated for the collection of batteries for recycling. The bill would require CalRecycle, after January 1, 2022, and in consultation with DTSC, to develop a guidance document relating to the proper handling and disposal of lithium-ion batteries and products that contain lithium-ion batteries. The bill would require the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection in consultation with relevant state agencies and stakeholders, to develop a model protocol and training that identifies best practices for the detection, safe handling, and suppression of fires that originate from discarded lithium-ion batteries or products that contain lithium-ion batteries on or in solid waste or recycling collection vehicles, transfer or processing stations, or disposal facilities, as provided. The bill would require a solid waste enterprise, as defined after consulting with the county fire marshal of every county in which the solid waste enterprise conducts solid waste collection operations, to adopt a protocol identifying procedures to follow under those same circumstances. By imposing new duties on county fire marshals, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Coalition Support Letter Current status: Referred to the Assembly Floor, to be heard on TBD. General Info GENERAL INFO Find Your Legislator CA Legislation Info Tune in to free live webcas ts of California legislative hearing Assembly media archives

CPSC Press Archive 2022 Tracking 2022 recycling laws by state - WasteDive, 11/29/22 After Hours: Sacramento Area Sustainable Business Awards - Sacramento Business Journal, 10/20/22 SF State students give fresh look to unwanted clothing through repair and redesign - San Francisco State University News, 10/13/22 Follow These Simple Rules When You Want to Recycle Your Bike - Yahoo! News, 10/4/22 Goodwill and the California Product Stewardship Council partner on used apparel - KALW, 10/3/22 California targets battery and device collection - Recycling Today, 9/20/22 California governor signs recycling and waste bills as part of climate change package - WasteDive, 9/19/22 California governor signs bills expanding e-scrap recycling - E-Scrap News, 9/19/22 Two Landmark Bills in California Aiming to Increase Battery Recycling Signed Into Law - Waste Advantage Magazine, 9/19/22 California Passes Two New Bills to Overhaul State’s Battery Extended Producer Responsibility Program and Broadly Expand State’s E-Waste Program - Beveridge & Diamond PC, 9/8/22 California takes action to cut more plastics waste, including grocery produce bags - LA Times, 9/5/22 California legislation develops statewide battery recycling program - Waste Today, 9/1/22 Bill to expand California e-scrap program passes - E-Scrap News, 9/1/22 California legislature advances battery EPR and takeback bills, aiming to avert facility fires - WasteDive, 8/31/22 Non-profits honor California Legislators, including Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, and staff for advancing circular and equitable economy legislation - Amigos805, 8/25/22 More Propane, More Problems: California Likely to Pass Ban on Single-Use Gas Cans - Gear Junkie, 8/25/22 California could be first state to ban 1-lb propane cylinders used by campers - San Francisco Chronicle, 8/24/22 California Assembly Approves Bill to Phase Out 1-Pound, Single-Use Propane Cylinders – Yosemite National Park Propane Cylinders Available to Purchase Inside the Park are Refillable - Sierra Sun Times, 8/16/22 Bill To Prohibit One Pound Disposable Propane Tanks Passed By Assembly - California Globe, 8/16/22 Bill To Eliminate Single Use Propane Cylinders Passes Assembly - Patch, 8/15/22 Reducing Your Home's Environmental Impact Isn't as Complicated as it Seems - Inside Hook, 8/9/22 What Is Extended Producer Responsibility in Textiles — and What’s Missing From Current Policies? - Conscious Life and Style, 7/29/22 Lawmakers spending the week in Maine, Canada - CalMatters, 7/26/22 Supes back propane canister ban - Mad River Union, 7/21/22 California went big on rooftop solar. It created an environmental danger in the process - LA Times, 07/14/22 ThredUp, Rent the Runway, The RealReal Rally For Reuse Reform - Sourcing Journal, 7/13/22 Illegal dumps chock Bay Area watersheds and open space - The Mercury News, 6/20/22 Is Recycled Polyester From Water Bottles Greenwashing? - Ecocult, 6/16/22 Key takeaways from the Global Fashion Summit: More diversity, more collaboration - Vogue Business, 6/13/22 Your Clothes Can Have an Afterlife: NIST report identifies strategies for greater reuse and recycling of textiles -NIST, 5/9/22 Solar Panel Recycling Pilot Wraps Up in City of Santa Monica, CA - Waste Advantage Magazine, 4/22/22 Legislation to keep batteries out of landfills passes first committee - Orange County Breeze, 4/25/22 Q&A: Doug Kobold of the California Product Stewardship Council discusses how products can be disposed of properly without harming the environment - Sacramento News & Review, 4/20/22 Fashion Industry, We Must Prepare for New Regulations - Sourcing Journal, 4/15/22 California Voice: Goal to keep batteries out of landfills needs a recharge - Marin Independent Journal, 4/9/22 Opinion: California goal to keep batteries out of landfills needs a recharge - Silicon Valley, 4/6/22 New legislation proposed a statewide program to recycle batteries - Orange County Breeze, 2/26/22 Will California go big on climate action? Here's what lawmakers want - Los Angeles Times, 2/24/22 California launches circularity projects focused on repair and reuse of textiles - Recycling Product News, 2/9/22 California Launches Innovative Textiles Circularity Projects: Part 2 – Waste 360, 2/9/22 California Launches Innovative Textiles Circularity Projects: Part 1 – Waste 360, 2/8/22 Lithium Battery Fires Are Threatening Recycling as We Know It - VICE, 2/1/22 California Industry Group Takes On Textile Waste - Sourcing Journal, 1/11/22 Textile Industry Urged to Fund Circularity - Ecotextile, 1/4/22 2021 Alameda County, CA and Delta Diablo Partner with State on Expired Marine Flare Collection Events - Waste Advantage, 10/8/21 Facilitating a Circular Economy for Textiles – Federal NIST workshop, 9/21/21 – 9/23/21 Solidarity in the Secondhand Supply Chain – Fashion Revolution Panel, 9/16/21 The Future of Fashion: 5 Voices in Fashiontech - Maggie Green Style, 09/15/21 California: Home to Global Innovators in Waste Reduction - Waste Advantage Magazine, 8/18/21 RRWA: Safe medicine disposal program update for Mendocino and Sonoma counties - Ukiah Daily Journal, 8/3/21 Huntington Beach marine flare safety; Resident coupon for reusable alternative - Huntington Beach News, 7/20/21 Crown Ace Hardware hosts special propane cylinder giveaway - Huntington Beach News, 7/19/21 Eco-tip: Options slim for treated wood disposal, solutions needed from state - VC Star, 7/3/21 An Analysis of Lithium-ion Battery Fires in Waste Management and Recycling - US EPA, 07/2021 Aquafil Carpet Recycling Facility: Tour and Interview Hosted by CPSC - CPSC, 05/2021 The Morning Show featuring Dr. Joanne Brasch - KSVY 91.3 FM Sonoma Valley, 5/6/21 Sustainability Blog: And the fastest-growing waste stream is...-City of Thousand Oaks, April 2021 Fibershed Solutions to Microplastic Problems: Why textiles need to be at the core of California's action on microplastics - Fibershed, 4/15/21 California successfully installs 250 medication disposal bins across state - Waste Today Magazine, 4/9/21 California Product Stewardship Council Battery Fire Report 2021 - Waste Advantage Magazine, 3/24/21 What's the Latest Research on Synthetic Microfiber Pollution from Fashion? - EcoCult, 3/22/21 Eye on the Environment | Unintended consequences from light bulb ban? - VC Reporter, 3/18/21 Waste, Reuse and Recycling - Dissecting Current Market Trends and Legislation on Recycling, Producer Responsibility, and How Reuse and Recycling Conserves Resources - KSQD 90.7 Santa Cruz, 3/10/21 Waste360 Announces 2021 40 Under 40 Awards Winners - Waste360, 3/4/21 Conscious couture: How Lowell students can make a difference with what they wear - The Lowell, 2/17/21End-of-life regulation is coming for fashion - Vogue Business, 2/4/21 2020 Eye on the Environment | How Much Wood Would You Chuck at $500 Per Ton? - VC Reporter, 12/23/20 Extended Producer Responsibility and Unique Waste Streams - SWANA NorCal Webinar, 12/12/20 Why today's 'fast fashions' can be bad for the planet - Science News for Students, 12/10/20 Eco-tip: How would you treat treated wood? Relaxed rules expire next month - VC Star, 11/14/20 Clearing the air by tracking toxics and chemicals - The Acorn, 11/12/20 Eye on the Environment | Tracking Toxins and Talking Transitions - VC Reporter, 10/28/20 Priority Product Survey Results 2020 - CPSC, 10/21/20 Eco-tip: When the state stopped playing a 'high-stakes game of chemical whack-a-mole' - VC Star, 10/17/20 California Ramps Up Consumer Drug Takeback Program with Help - Waste360, 9/23/20 It's Time to Invest In Our Clothing: Clothing Repair, Reuse, & Repurposing Are No Longer An Option, But A Necessity - AATCC,9/10/20 LED marine flare company wins waste reduction award in California - The Log, 9/5/20 California legislature passes recycled content mandate, EPR bills stall for a second year in a row - Waste Dive, 9/1/20 CPSC Executive Director Doug Kobold to Discuss Waste, Climate Change, and Arrow Awards - KZFR 90.1 Chico, 8/25/20 LED Marine Flare Company Wins Coveted Waste Reduction Award in California - Cision PRWeb, 8/25/20 Several California Companies Working Together to Solve the Waste Crisis Through Innovative Business Models - Waste Today, 8/19/20 California's Top Companies Recognized for Product Stewardship and Green Job Creation - Recycling Product News, 8/18/20 Sirius Signal to Receive the Green Arrow Award from the California Product Stewardship Council - Sirius Signal, 8/8/20 Sen. Patricia Bates Applauds Expansion of California Drug Take-Back Program - Orange County Breeze, 8/5/20 Medication Take-Back Bins Installed at Pasadena Vons Locations - PasadenaNow.com, 8/5/20 Solar Panel Recycling Research from the Counties of Butte and San Mateo and the City of Santa Monica - IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference, 6/18/20 and supporting 5-minute video Class Is In Session - Sportswear International, 4/14/20 California Pushes for Solar Panel Waste Policy - Waste360, 3/31/20 To combat opioid crisis, California Take-Back drugs program available for Pass area - Record Gazette, 2/5/20 Medicine disposal bins now available - Del Norte Triplicate, 1/30/20 Fashion has a misinformation problem. That's bad for the environment - Vox, 1/27/20 California PFAS priority product proposal sparks discord - ChemicalWatch, 1/22/20 2019 Waste Connections cities batteries in trash, recycling fires - The Columbian, 11/21/19 Sustainable Textiles in the Fashion Industry - Waste Advantage Magazine, 11/4/19 Life In Plastic: California's Recycling Woes - KCET Socal Connected , 10/15/19 The Power & Influence Behind the World of Recycling - KCET Socal Connected, 10/15/19 Smarter Scoring scores $17M to reduce chemical waste - Austin Business Journal, 9/23/19 Single-Use Packaging Proposal on Pause in California - resource-recycling.com, 9/17/19 Short circuiting the circular economy - resource-recycling.com, 9/1/19 Drug Disposal Bins Coming to California - drugtopics.com, 8/27/19 Dispose of unused medications properly - Recordnet.com, 8/1/19 Pot Stickler - PacificSun, 7/10/19 Good News for Cities: Producer-Paid Medication and Needle Collection Is Coming - Western Cities, 7/1/19 Why a California lawmaker wants to ban cigarette filters and disposable vapes - CalMatters, 6/25/19 California Product Stewardship Council lauds Canadian government initiative on plastics - Recycling Product News, 6/18/19 Panels Be Gone - Chico News and Review, 6/13/19 New global sustainability standard for solar modules in the works - PV Magazine, 6/4/19 Protecting Butte County Together - Chico News and Review, 5/23/19 NorCal Officials Discuss Drug Take-Back - KCRA 3 News, 4/26/19 National Drug Take-Back Day Gives Area Residents a Chance to Drop-Off Unused Old Drugs - Stockton Record, 4/27/19 Eco-tip Batteries Not Included In Your Garbage Can or Recycling Cart - vcstar.com , 4/17/19 California Readies for Statewide Extended Producer Responsibility for Pharma Waste - Lexology, 4/4/19 Drug Take-Back Program Goes Statewide - SF Estuary Institute, 1/7/19 20 1 8 Recyclable plastic is ending up in landfills - ABC 7 News, 12/6/18 California State Senator Considers Himself a Pharmacist First, pharmacyschool.usc.edu- 10/31/18 California Product Stewardship Council Crusader Plans to Go National to Impact Change - Waste 360, 10/25/18 California Signs Drug and Needle Take Bake Program into Law - Waste 360, 10/1/18 Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson SB 212 Press Release - Senator Jackson, 9/30/18 Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf To Welcome State Conference On Waste Reduction - Oakland News Now, 7/26/18 Texas technology company recognized by California Product Stewardship Council - Waste Advantage, 7/26/18 2018 Arrow Awards Press Release - CPSC, 7/25/18 States’ Waste Paint Problem Becomes a Solution for Recyclers, Retailers - Waste 360, 7/5/18 Combatting the opioid crisis with drug takeback programs - Tim Goncharoff, American Public Works Association Reporter, March 2018 We All Pay For E-Commerce’s Cardboard Problem - Forbes, 1/10/18 Recycle Centers Overwhelmed with Boxes after Online Holiday Shopping - CBS News, 1/3/18 2017 Focusing on Safe Disposal of Sharps and Pharmaceutical Waste - Heidi Sanborn, Akin Babatola & Debbie Raphael, Western City Magazine, October 2017 California pushes carpet industry to recycle - Jeff VonKaenel, Sacramento News and Review, 7/20/17 Swept under the rug: After forming California’s carpet recycling program, industry prevents it from spreading nationwide - Michael Mott, Sacramento News and Review, 7/20/17 All That Online Shopping Has Cardboard Consequences - Chiara Sottile and Jo Ling Kent, NBC News 6/18/17 The Truth About Meal-Kit Freezer Packs - Kiera Butler, Mother Jones, 6/4/17 Blame ‘Amazon Effect’ for Proposed Bump in S.F. Garbage Bills - Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 5/24/17 Why Hundreds Dropped Off Unwanted Pills in Nationwide Event - KCRA 3 News, 5/5/17 The New Refillable 1 lb. Propane Cylinders: Sparking the Paradigm Shift Away from Disposables - Heidi Sanborn and Jordan Wells, Waste Advantage Magazine, 4/27/17 State Agency Critical of Carpet Industry’s Failed Recycling Program - CBS SF, 12/20/17 2016 Pharma loses one batter over drug take-back programs, but wins another - Ed Silverman, STAT News, 6/16/16 LA County supes set aside drug take-back proposal, for now - Stephanie O’Neill and Paul Glickman, 6/14/16 LA County Supervisors set — again — to vote on drug take-back ordinance - Stephanie O’Neill, Southern California Public Radio, 6/13/16 Five Bay Area Counties Urge State Board to Allow Safe Drug Disposal Programs- San Francisco Department of the Environment Press Release, 6/2/16 Campers and Tailgaters: U-Haul Introduces Refillable 1-LB Propane Cylinders in California- U-Haul Press Release, 6/2/16 How And Where To Dump Your Leftover Drugs — Responsibly- Emily Bazar, California Healthline, 5/27/16 Dangerous prescription drug battle plan for LA County: Let’s put it off- Hoa Quach, MyNewsLA.com, 5/17/16 LA Times Column Covers LA County Proposed EPR Ordinance- California Inc., David Lazarus, 5/16/16 Vote on LA County drug take-back proposal delayed again- Stephanie O’Neill, Southern California Public Radio, 5/16/16 Big Pharma Under Pressure to Pay For Drug Take-Back Programs- Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 4/30/16 Proposed LA County Law Would Make Pharma Pay for Drug, Sharps Disposal- Stephanie O’Neill, Southern California Public Radio, 4/22/16 Shareholders Challenge Pharmaceutical Industry To Take Back Unused Drugs- As You Sow Press Release, 4/22/16 OP/ED: The Truth About Costs of the LA County Drug Take-Back Ordinance- Arthur J. Shartsis and Heidi Sanborn, Los Cerritos News, 4/20/16 What to do with old prescription drugs? Four O.C. Walgreens will be take-back sites for medications- Jenna Chandler, Orange County Register, 2/22/16 Safe and Convenient Medicine Collection is Good Medicine for LA County- Op-Ed by Heidi Sanborn, Los Cerritos News, 2/12/16 Drug Disposal Bins Welcome Tool in Opioid Fight- Sacramento Bee Editorial, 2/11/16 Walgreens Leads Fight Against Prescription Drug Abuse with New Programs to Help Curb Misuse of Medications and the Rise in Overdose Deaths- Walgreens Press Release, 2/9/16 Groups Urge FDA To End Medication Flushing Advice- InsideEPA, 1/26/16 California Product Stewardship Council and Others Urge Federal Agencies to Revise Recommendations for Safe Medicine Disposal- California Product Stewardship Council Press Release, 1/26/16 Educating Patients About Sharps Disposal- Medical Board of California Winter Newsletter 2016 (article on page 11 of PDF) Extended Producer Responsibility: Protecting Public Health and the Environment- Jen Jackson and Heidi Sanborn, Western City Magazine, January 2016 2015 Don’t Flush Those Meds! City of Folsom Police Department Announces New Medicine Collection Bin- The Folsom Insider, 12/17/15 Medicine Collection Bin Available at Folsom Police Department- Kathy Locke, Sacramento Bee, 12/16/15 Folsom Police Department Announces New Medicine Collection Bin to Help Make Homes Safer for Children, Teens, and Pets- Don’t Rush to Flush, Meds in the Bin We All Win! Press Release, 12/16/15 California Wins Big Against Big Pharma: Organization Hopes Other States Follow the Lead- Addiction Campuses , 10/29/15 Santa Clara County Receives Eight New Medication Disposal Bins to Protect the Environment and Public Health- Don’t Rush to Flush, Meds in the Bin We All Win! Press Release, 10/1/15 NEW ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION LAUNCHES! National Stewardship Action Council (NSAC) Forms to Promote a Circular Economy Through Producer Responsibility Press Release- NSAC, 9/25/15 The Challenges of Implementing EPR- Heidi Sanborn, Recycling Product News, September 2015 California Adds Fourth R – Refill – to Keep Propane Tanks Out of the Trash- Elizabeth McGowan, 8/24/15 Supreme Court Upholds the Alameda Ordinance that Producers Share in Responsibility for Product Waste: What Does That Mean for the Waste Industry?- Heidi Sanborn, Waste Advantage Magazine, August 2015 The Evolution of EPR for Packaging in the US- Matt Prindiville and Heidi Sanborn, PAC NEXT EPR Updates: Canada, USA, & Europe, Summer 2015 Arrow Award Leads to Collaboration and Development of Innovative and Green Household Hazardous Waste Collection Containers for Home Use!- Waste Advantage Magazine, 6/29/15 Producers Should Share in Responsibility for Product Waste to Prevent Water Pollution – Heidi Sanborn, Southern California Alliance of Publicly Owned Treatment Works (SCAP) June 2015 Monthly Update Waking Up to Mattress Recycling- Roger Guttentag, Resource Recycling Magazine, June 2015 Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Appeal on California Pharmaceutical EPR Law- Allan Gerlat, Waste 360, 5/29/15 Supreme Court Will Not Review Alameda’s Drug Disposal Law- Scott Shafer, KQED News State of Health, 5/26/15 Too Much Garbage in Gotham- Waste360 Challenged in Court, Killed in Legislature, Drug Take-Back Taking Root in Counties- George Lauer, California Healthline, 3/30/15 Extended Producer Responsibility: An Opportunity, Not a Threat- John Skinner, Ph.D., SWANA Executive Director and CEO, 3/12/15 Should Pharmaceutical Companies Pay for Local Drug Take-Back Programs?- Go Green Radio episode, 3/6/15 Creating Safe Medicine Disposal Options- Op Ed by London Breed , San Francisco Examiner, 2/25/15 20 14 Prescription Drugs Are Polluting Our Waters- Carren Jao, KCET, 12/1/14

CALIFORNIA'S PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP PROGRAMS California has over 14 established and pending Product Stewardship Programs. This page has details on each of those programs, ranging on funding types from producer responsibility to consumer responsibility. Below is a description of the stewardship spectrum explaining the difference between producer and consumer responsibility. Learn about active bills related to extended producer responsibility and more on our Legislation Page . PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY CONSUMER RESPONSIBILITY OTHERS Product Stewardship is the act of minimizing the health, safety, environmental, and social impacts of a product, the product’s material components, and its packaging through each of the product’s lifecycle stages. Product Stewardship is an umbrella concept that includes all programs on the Stewardship Spectrum, including Producer Responsibility programs, Consumer Responsibility Programs, and everything in between. Learn about Extended Producer Responsibility by viewing this CalRecycle Document . EPR PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY LOOSE BATTERIES USED OIL PHARMACEUTICALS & SHARPS AG PESTICIDES CONTAINERS PRODUCT RECALLS TEXTILES PACKAGING THERMOSTATS CONSUMER RESPONSIBILITY CARPET PAINT TIRES MATTRESSES E-WASTE BEVERAGE CONTAINERS Consumer OTHER MATERIAL CATEGORIES (NO MANDATED PROGRAMS) GAS CYLINDERS SOLAR PANELS TOBACCO Others