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This bill modifies North Carolina's waste management definitions by adding three new terms to the state's legal code. The bill introduces "mass balance attribution" as an accounting methodology that allows manufacturers to track and attribute recycled materials through a certified chain of custody, "recycled products" as items produced from recyclable materials using chemical recycling processes with mass balance attribution, and a "third-party certification system" as an international framework for implementing mass balance attribution methodologies. Importantly, the bill specifies that designating a product as a "recycled product" does not exempt it from existing environmental regulations concerning air, water, or hazardous waste. The bill also makes some minor administrative changes by recodifying two existing subdivisions in the legal code. The new definitions aim to provide clearer guidelines and terminology for advanced recycling practices, with the act becoming effective immediately upon becoming law.

https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/S481