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Committee previews three-part plastics bill banning some chemical-recycling facilities, restricting DEHP in medical products and limiting microbeads
Summary
Senate Bill S.247 would (1) prohibit new chemical conversion facilities using plastic feedstock (advance/chemical recycling), (2) phase out intentionally added DEHP in certain medical solution containers and tubing with specified caps for unintentionally present DEHP, and (3) ban certain microbeads and microplastics in consumer products, with staggered effective dates and enforcement routed through agency authority and consumer-protection remedies.
Legislative counsel presented Senate Bill S.247 to the Natural Resources & Energy committee, describing a three-part measure that addresses chemical conversion technologies (commonly called advanced or chemical recycling), the phthalate DEHP in medical devices and microplastics in consumer products.
On the first component, counsel said the bill would define “chemical conversion” broadly (including pyrolysis, gasification, solvolysis, methanolysis and similar processes) and prohibit use of plastic as the feedstock for such facilities in Vermont. Counsel explained the prohibition would bar construction, operation or conversion of facilities using those technologies and would prevent state grants, subsidies or incentives from supporting such facilities. “Person shall not use or operate…
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