NO ON AB 2253.
LET’S ADVANCE RECYCLING.
NOT WASTE THE CHANCE.
1.
More than unsustainable, anti-sustainability.
AB 2253 radically changes the way thousands of manufacturers and retailers across the state account for the recycled materials in their products. That will limit, if not entirely sacrifice, their ability to help achieve circularity.
2.
Adds new costs.
By piling on compliance, enforcement, and litigation risks, this law will dramatically increase the costs for manufacturers, retailers, and, of course, consumers.
3.
Puts our state at odds with the world.
AB 2253 rejects the internationally recognized accounting certifications used by the vast majority of California's international trading partners. The collateral damage: a sharp reduction in resources devoted to recycling.
4.
A legal landfill for California businesses.
AB 2253 creates new liability without clarity for California operating companies trying to recycle more. Consumer choice will be compromised as businesses become dissuaded from manufacturing and selling in our state.
5.
Tosses out technology before it can prove out.
New ideas and new technologies represent our most promising paths to achieving California’s recycling goals in ways that build on what people and businesses really will do, not what they can’t afford. By contrast, AB 2253 represents a permanent roadblock to the deployment of these high potential tools long before we can test their real value.
6.
Opposed by a coalition of the already doing.
For decades, California businesses have been ready, willing, and able partners in putting our state at the forefront of worldwide recycling success. AB 2253 threatens our ability to sustain that record in the years ahead. In fact, it does exactly the opposite.