Bill > S3127

This bill aims to reduce the production and use of certain single-use plastic products and packaging, improve producer responsibility for the design, collection, reuse, recycling, and disposal of consumer products and packaging, and prevent pollution from consumer products and packaging from entering animal and human food chains and waterways. The key provisions of this bill include: - Requiring producers of covered products and beverage containers to participate in Producer Responsibility Organizations that must meet performance targets for source reduction, recyclability, recycling rates, and eliminating the use of toxic substances. Producers that fail to comply will face penalties. - Establishing a national beverage container program that requires producers to charge and redeem deposits on beverage containers and set up a system for collecting and recycling those containers. - Prohibiting the sale, distribution, or importation of certain single-use plastic bags, polystyrene foam food service products, and other single-use plastic items like utensils and straws. - Providing grants to support the development of reuse and refill systems and water refill stations at airports and train stations. - Requiring new regulations to address emissions, wastewater discharges, and environmental justice impacts from plastic polymer production facilities and other covered facilities. - Directing the EPA to study the environmental and public health impacts of the plastics industry and take regulatory action to address toxic substances and cumulative impacts in affected communities. - Prohibiting the export of certain plastic waste and scrap. The bill aims to comprehensively address the environmental and public health impacts of plastic pollution throughout the product lifecycle.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3127/all-info