HomeMy WebLinkAbout2021-08-25 EMC agenda item 5-b(1) - HB1316 _EEP committee reportSTAND. COM. REP. NO. *245
Honolulu, Hawaii
FEB 12 2021
RE: H.B. No. 1316
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty -First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2021
State of Hawaii
Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which
was referred H.B. No. 1316 entitled:
The purpose of this measure is to:
(1) Require producers of packaging waste to be responsible
for the end -of -life management of their products in a
way that ensures minimal social and environmental
impacts;
(2) Allow the Department of Health to administratively
impose civil penalties; and
(3) Establish the Waste and Litter Management Special Fund.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from one member of the Hawaii County Council; County of Maui
Environmental Protection and Sustainability Division; Department
of Environmental Services of the City and County of Honolulu;
Surfrider Foundation, Hawaii Region; Hawaii Youth Climate
Coalition; Our Revolution Hawaii; Hawaii Reef and Ocean Coalition;
350Hawaii; Zero Waste Big Island; Product Stewardship Institute;
Sierra Club of Hawaii; Take Flight Digital; Environmental Caucus
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of the Democratic Party of Hawaii; and numerous individuals. Your
Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from
the Hawaii Food Industry Association; Flexible Packaging
Association; Hawaii Restaurant Association; Association of Home
Appliance Manufacturers; Chamber of Commerce Hawaii; Island
Plastic Bags, Inc.; American Institute for Packaging and the
Environment; Consumer Brands Association; Retail Merchants of
Hawaii; American Cleaning Institute; Pacific Allied Products Ltd.;
Consumer Healthcare Products Association; Sealed Air Corporation;
and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this
measure from the Department of Health and American Chemistry
Council.
Your Committee finds that for Hawaii and many other states,
most of the plastic collected for recycling is shipped to other
countries for recycling or disposal, which often adds to the cost
and leads to more of these materials ending up in landfills. This
measure ensures that producers are responsible for the
environmental and public health costs of their products by
encouraging better design for products and systems that reduce
waste at the source and promote the reuse of more waste materials.
Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its
contents and inserting language that:
(1) Requires and appropriates funds for the Department of
Health to conduct a study on the benefits and costs to
implement extended producer responsibility in the Statei
(2) Beginning January 1, 2022, prohibits full -service
restaurants from providing single -use plastic service
ware to consumers unless requested by the consumer;
(3) Beginning January 1, 2023, requires beverage
manufacturers that offer for sale, sell, or distribute
beverages in plastic beverage containers in the State to
meet minimum postconsumer recycled content requirements;
and
(4) Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to
encourage further discussion.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached t*
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this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 1316, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B.
No. 1316, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Consumer
Protection & Commerce.
Respectfully submitted on
behalf of the members of the
Committee on Energy &
Environmental Protection,
NICOLE E. LOWEN, Chair
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