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CalRecycle outlines bottle bill changes, dealer cooperatives and staffing plan for textile EPR
Summary
CalRecycle told senators it has started outreach and IT changes to accommodate wine and distilled spirits in the beverage-container program and requested staffing funds to implement the new textile producer-responsibility law SB 707.
CalRecycle Director Zoe Heller told the Senate Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on March 20 that the department has updated systems and conducted outreach to include wine, distilled spirits and large juice containers in the state—s beverage-container program, and that it is preparing implementation capacity for SB 707, the new textile producer-responsibility law.
Heller said CalRecycle has recorded 29,000,000 newly covered beverage containers since wine and spirits joined the program on Jan. 1, 2024. "A 29,000,000 has been collected since Jan 1 24 specific to the new beverage…
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