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This bill aims to promote waste reduction by facilitating the use of recycled materials in manufacturing new products through advanced recycling processes. It introduces new definitions for terms like "mass balance attribution," which is a method to track and assign recycled content in products, "recycled material," which includes materials derived from recycled sources or certified through mass balance attribution, "recycled plastics," which are plastics made from mechanical or advanced recycling processes, and "renewable biomass" and "renewable chemical," which refer to materials derived from organic matter. The bill requires the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to identify third-party certification systems that can be used to verify the recycled content of products through mass balance attribution, and to establish rules for implementing these systems. This will help ensure that products claiming to use recycled content accurately reflect their composition, thereby encouraging greater use of recycled materials in manufacturing.

Government Affairs, Transportation and Infrastructure

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