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Committee backs bill to strengthen state recyclables marketplace and advisory council
Summary
HB2518 would modernize TDEC's Office of Cooperative Marketing for Recyclables, create a recycling market development and diversion advisory council, and improve statewide coordination; the subcommittee approved the amended bill and sent it to full committee 6–0.
Chairman Todd presented HB2518, which he said strengthens the Office of Cooperative Marketing for Recyclables (OCMR) within TDEC by housing a recyclables‑materials marketplace in the office, maintaining data on recyclable supply and connecting material sources with industries that can use them. The bill also creates a public–private advisory council to assist TDEC in developing the marketplace and improving coordination and transparency.
Members had no questions on the amended bill. The clerk recorded a 6–0 vote and the subcommittee reported the bill to the full committee.
Chairman Todd described the bill as a modernization and coordination measure intended to improve recycling markets statewide; details about membership for the advisory council were discussed in bill text rather than in oral testimony.
