November 27, 2018, Introduced by Rep. Rendon and referred to the Committee on Michigan Competitiveness.
A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled
"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"
by amending section 17501 (MCL 324.17501), as added by 2016 PA 55.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 17501. As used in this part:
(a) "Commercial waste" means all types of solid waste
generated by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses, and other
nonmanufacturing activities, but does not include household waste
from single residences, hazardous waste, or industrial waste.
Commercial waste includes solid waste from any of the following:
(i) Multiple residences.
(ii) Hotels and motels.
(iii) Bunkhouses.
(iv) Ranger stations.
(v) Campgrounds.
(vi) Picnic grounds.
(vii) Day-use recreation areas.
(b) "Department" means the department of environmental
quality.
(c) "Household waste" means any solid waste that is derived
from single residences, but does not include any of the following:
(i) Commercial waste.
(ii) Industrial waste.
(iii) Construction and demolition waste.
(d) "Recyclable materials" means that term as it is defined in
section 11505.
(e) "Recycling" means an action or process, such as
separation, sorting, baling, or shipping, applied to reportable
recyclable materials for the purposes of reuse or conversion into
raw materials or new products.
(f) "Recycling establishment" means an establishment engaged
in recycling of, or brokering of, reportable recyclable materials.
Recycling establishment does not include any of the following:
(i) An establishment that recycles fewer than 100 tons per
year.
(ii) A retail establishment that bales cardboard packaging for
off-site shipment.
(iii) A retail establishment that collects returnable beverage
containers under 1976 IL 1, MCL 445.571 to 445.576, for transfer to
a recycling establishment. This subparagraph does not apply after
January 1, 2025.
(iv) An end user of reportable recyclable materials such as a
paper mill, steel mill, foundry, or die caster that converts the
reportable recyclable materials into new products or raw materials
for conversion into new products.
(v) A drop-off recycling location that sends all reportable
recyclable materials to a recycling establishment registered under
section 17502.
(vi) An establishment that ships reportable recyclable
material to recycling establishments registered under section 17502
but that does not engage in any other recycling.
(g) "Reportable recyclable materials", subject to subdivision
(h), means any of the following categories of recyclable materials
that are separated from household waste or commercial waste, or
from a combination of household waste and commercial waste, and
that are delivered to a recycling establishment for recycling:
(i) Glass.
(ii) Paper and paper products.
(iii) Plastic and plastic products.
(iv) Ferrous metal, including white goods.
(v) Nonferrous metal.
(vi) Textiles.
(vii) Single stream recyclable materials that include any
combination of the materials listed in subparagraphs (i) to (vi).
(h) "Reportable recyclable materials" does not include any of
the following:
(i) Materials or products that contain iron, steel, or
nonferrous metals and that are directed to or received by a person
subject to the scrap metal regulatory act, 2008 PA 429, MCL 445.421
to 445.443, or by a reuser of these metals.
(ii) Materials generated from the shredding or dismantling of
motor vehicles or parts of motor vehicles.
(iii) A beneficial use by-product, as defined in section
11502.
(iv) A covered electronic device reported under part 173.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless all of the following bills of the 99th Legislature are
enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 6532 (request no.
03419'17).
(b) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 6533 (request no.
03419'17 a).
(c) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 6534 (request no.
03419'17 b).
(d) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 6535 (request no.
03419'17 c).