STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1034
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2015
RE: S.B. No. 1260
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2015
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 1260 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RECYCLING,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) Consider and perform a cost-benefit analysis on
combining the glass container processing streams for the advance disposal fee under chapter 342G, part VII, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and the deposit beverage container fee under chapter 342G, part VIII, Hawaii Revised Statutes;
(2) Update its glass recycling policies, particularly to address obstacles to local down-cycling of advance deposit fee glass;
(3) Increase the recovery rate for advance disposal fee glass containers to seventy-five per cent; and
(4) Submit a report to the Legislature prior to the 2016 Regular Session.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1260 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,
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____________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair |
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