Recycling: beverage containers: enforcement.

The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act requires a distributor of specified beverage containers to pay a redemption payment to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, for each beverage container, as defined, sold or transferred. Existing law prohibits any person from paying, claiming, or receiving any refund value, processing payment, handling fee, or administrative fee for imported beverage container material, previously redeemed containers, rejected containers, line breakage, or other ineligible material. Existing law also prohibits any person from redeeming or attempting to redeem those containers or materials, returning previously redeemed containers to the marketplace for redemption, or bringing those containers or materials to the marketplace for redemption, as specified. Existing law provides that, for purposes of implementing those provisions, the department shall take all reasonable steps to exclude those items, when conducting surveys to determine a commingled rate for payment on beverage containers. This bill would also require the department, when conducting those surveys, to exclude other ineligible material.