California Government Code

§ 65630

GOV § 65630 Effective Jan 1, 2025Div. 1 · Title 7 · Ch. 3 · Art. 10.11

Statute text

(a)The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(1)The 2020 annual report, as published by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, found that California is falling far short of the state diversion goal of 75 percent in 2020.

(2)A significant portion of the waste stream into California landfills is composed of clothing and household goods that have not reached the end of their usefulness. Discarded clothing remains the largest source of textile waste in the world, with the average United States citizen throwing away 81 pounds of clothing each year, 95 percent of which could have been reworn or repurposed. Yet, 85 percent of this material ends up in landfills. According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, one garbage truck of textiles is landfilled or incinerated every second.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 728, Sec. 1. (AB 2632) Effective January 1, 2025.