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Read. Follow. Verify.Pennsylvania House Bill 1035 redefines advanced recycling and excludes post-use polymers and waste tires from municipal waste regulations
Last action · March 24, 2025: Referred to ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE PROTECTION, March 24, 2025Sponsors: Bud Cook and 27 others
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What This Bill Would Do
House Bill 1035 redefines terms in the Solid Waste Management Act to establish that post-use polymers and waste tires processed through are not classified as , residual waste, or solid waste. The bill takes effect in 60 days.
Changes the regulatory classification of certain recycled materials and waste tires for facilities operating in Pennsylvania, shifting them out from under standard solid waste disposal rules.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Advanced recycling facilities
Their manufacturing processes and converted materials are newly defined and explicitly excluded from traditional municipal, residual, and solid waste processing and treatment regulations.
Municipalities
Waste management jurisdiction changes as post-use polymers and waste tires converted through advanced recycling are removed from municipal waste classifications.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
1 action- Mar 24, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE PROTECTION, March 24, 2025
Version history
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