GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
H	1
HOUSE BILL 1309
     

 
Short Title:	Reduce Litter/Increase State Recycling.	()	
Sponsors:	Representatives Gibson, Underhill (Primary Sponsors);  Coates, Harrington, and Barefoot.	
Referred to:	Transportation, if favorable, State Government.	
April 12, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to reduce roadside litter by requiring recycling bins at highway rest areas and to increase waste reduction and recycling in state offices by requiring the recycling of newspapers, mixed paper, recyclable glass, and rigid plastic containers.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 130A‑309.14 is amended by adding new subsections to read:
"(k)	The Department of Transportation shall provide and maintain recycling bins at each rest area located in this State on a highway in the Interstate Highway System or in the State highway system for the collection of all recyclable aluminum, high-grade office paper, mixed paper, newspaper, recyclable glass, and rigid plastic containers that have a molded number 1 through 6 placed on the container as part of the code indicating in accordance with G.S. 130A-309.10(e) the plastic resin used to produce the container.
(l)	As used in this section, the following definitions apply:
(1)	High-grade office paper. – Paper used in offices that is of a high quality for purposes of recycling and includes white copier paper, white computer paper, white office stationery, and white notepaper.
(2)	Mixed office paper. – Nearly all waste paper generated in offices that is not high-grade office paper and includes light-colored paper, fax paper, computer paper, junk mail, notepads, manila and bleached file folders, envelopes without plastic windows, magazines, and corrugated cardboard. Mixed paper does not include glossy paper, tape, and envelopes with plastic windows."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 130A‑309.14(a)(1) reads as rewritten:
"(1)	Establish a program in cooperation with the Department and the Department of Administration, for the collection on each floor of each building occupied by a State agency of all of the following recyclable materials generated in State offices throughout the  State:
a.	Aluminum.
b.	High-grade office paper.
c.	Mixed paper.
d.	Newspaper.
e.	Recyclable glass.
f.	Rigid plastic containers that have a molded number 1 through 6 placed on the container as part of the code indicating in accordance with G.S. 130A-309.10(e) the plastic resin used to produce the container."
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective January 1, 2002.