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Page 3 <br />H.B. NO.\3\& <br />I Water Act due to plastic pollution. The federal decision <br />2 requires the department of health to develop methods to assess <br />3 how much debris is polluting the waters at Kamilo and come up <br />4 with solutions. The State is now legally liable for shouldering <br />5 the cost of a problem that was created by the plastic industry. <br />6 The legislature further finds that addressing issues with <br />7 only plastic waste, or only one type of waste at a time, leads <br />8 producers to switch to using other materials. Instead, <br />9 producers should internalize the environmental and public health <br />10 costs of their products, and design better products and systems <br />11 that reduce waste at the source and encourage the reuse of more <br />12 waste materials. <br />13 Therefore, in order to incentivize innovation in packaging <br />14 design that minimizes environmental impacts, promotes the use of <br />15 recycled content in plastic packaging, promotes reuse, and <br />16 ensures funding for collection, sorting, reprocessing, and <br />17 end -of -life management services, the purpose of this Act is to <br />18 require that producers of packaging waste be responsible for the <br />19 end -of -life management of their products in a way that ensures <br />20 minimal social and environmental impacts, and makes producers <br />21 responsible for more of the true cost of the goods they create. <br />2021-0546 HB HMSO-1 3 <br />