Bill > SB287

This bill amends Delaware's laws regarding solid waste recycling to expand universal recycling requirements and modify reporting and advisory structures. Key changes include requiring annual notifications with recycling instructions and educational content for single-family residential customers and multi-family complex management, and mandating that commercial businesses actively participate in comprehensive recycling programs by January 1, 2014, which must include recyclable materials collected in the Authority's single-stream recycling program and other wastes with commercially available recycling options, unless the cost of recycling exceeds disposal costs. The bill also removes provisions for a Recycling Grants and Low Interest Loan Program and associated funding from the Delaware Recycling Fund, and it replaces the Recycling Public Advisory Council with a stakeholder engagement process coordinated by the Department and the Authority, involving various industry and government representatives. Furthermore, reporting requirements for recyclers are clarified, and the Department and Authority are now responsible for an annual report to the Governor and General Assembly on recycling activities, replacing the previous reporting duties of the Recycling Public Advisory Council.