95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB0180

 

Introduced 1/31/2007, by Sen. Pamela J. Althoff

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
415 ILCS 5/3.372 new
415 ILCS 5/3.380   was 415 ILCS 5/3.30
415 ILCS 5/3.381 new
415 ILCS 5/3.535   was 415 ILCS 5/3.53
415 ILCS 15/3   from Ch. 85, par. 5953
415 ILCS 20/2.1   from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052.1

    Amends the Environmental Protection Act. In a definitions Section, provides that the term "waste" does not include discarded materials that are: (i) collected for recycling; (ii) processed for recycling; or (iii) recovered for reuse (now, waste includes all discarded material). Defines "reclamation", "recycling", and "reuse" as individual terms (now, single definition for recycling, reclamation, or reuse). Amends the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act and the Solid Waste Management Act to make corresponding changes. Effective immediately.


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1     AN ACT concerning safety.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by
5 changing Sections 3.380 and 3.535 and by adding Sections 3.372
6 and 3.381 as follows:
 
7     (415 ILCS 5/3.372 new)
8     Sec. 3.372. Reclamation. "Reclamation" means a method,
9 technique, or process designed to remove any contaminant from
10 waste so as to render that waste reusable.
 
11     (415 ILCS 5/3.380)  (was 415 ILCS 5/3.30)
12     Sec. 3.380. Recycling, reclamation or reuse. "Recycling,
13 reclamation or reuse" means a method, technique, or process
14 designed to remove any contaminant from waste so as to render
15 such waste reusable, or any process by which materials that
16 would otherwise be disposed of or discarded are collected,
17 separated, or processed and returned to the economic mainstream
18 in the form of raw materials or products.
19 (Source: P.A. 92-574, eff. 6-26-02.)
 
20     (415 ILCS 5/3.381 new)
21     Sec. 3.381. Reuse. "Reuse" means the recovery or

 

 

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1 reapplication of a package, used product, or material in a
2 manner that retains its original form or identity and does not
3 involve processes that significantly alter the original
4 condition of the package, product, or material.
 
5     (415 ILCS 5/3.535)  (was 415 ILCS 5/3.53)
6     Sec. 3.535. Waste. "Waste" means any garbage, sludge from
7 a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air
8 pollution control facility or other discarded material,
9 including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous
10 material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and
11 agricultural operations, and from community activities, but
12 does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic
13 sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return
14 flows, or coal combustion by-products as defined in Section
15 3.135, or industrial discharges which are point sources subject
16 to permits under Section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution
17 Control Act, as now or hereafter amended, or source, special
18 nuclear, or by-product materials as defined by the Atomic
19 Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 921) or any solid or
20 dissolved material from any facility subject to the Federal
21 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-87)
22 or the rules and regulations thereunder or any law or rule or
23 regulation adopted by the State of Illinois pursuant thereto.
24     "Discarded material" does not include materials (i)
25 collected for recycling; (ii) processed for recycling; or (iii)

 

 

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1 recovered for reuse.
2 (Source: P.A. 92-574, eff. 6-26-02.)
 
3     Section 10. The Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act is
4 amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
 
5     (415 ILCS 15/3)  (from Ch. 85, par. 5953)
6     Sec. 3. As used in this Act, unless the context clearly
7 indicates otherwise:
8     "Agency" means the Illinois Environmental Protection
9 Agency.
10     "Composting" means the biological process by which
11 microorganisms decompose the organic fraction of waste,
12 producing a humus-like material that may be used as a soil
13 conditioner.
14     "County" means any county of the State and includes the
15 City of Chicago.
16     "Department" means the Department of Commerce and Economic
17 Opportunity.
18     "Municipal waste" means garbage, general household,
19 institutional and commercial waste, industrial lunchroom or
20 office waste, landscape waste, and construction and demolition
21 debris.
22     "Person" means any individual, partnership, cooperative
23 enterprise, unit of local government, institution, corporation
24 or agency, or any other legal entity whatsoever which is

 

 

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1 recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties.
2     "Recycling, reclamation or reuse" means a method,
3 technique or process designed to remove any contaminant from
4 waste so as to render the waste reusable, or any process by
5 which materials that would otherwise be disposed of or
6 discarded are collected, separated, or processed and returned
7 to the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials or
8 products.
9     "Recycling center" means a facility that accepts only
10 segregated, nonhazardous, nonspecial, homogeneous,
11 nonputrescible materials, such as dry paper, glass, cans or
12 plastics, for subsequent use in the secondary materials market.
13 (Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06.)
 
14     Section 15. The Illinois Solid Waste Management Act is
15 amended by changing Section 2.1 as follows:
 
16     (415 ILCS 20/2.1)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052.1)
17     Sec. 2.1. Definitions. When used in this Act, unless the
18 context otherwise requires, the following terms have the
19 meanings ascribed to them in this Section:
20     "Department", when a particular entity is not specified,
21 means (i) in the case of a function to be performed on or after
22 July 1, 1995 (the effective date of the Department of Natural
23 Resources Act), the Department of Commerce and Community
24 Affairs (now Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity),

 

 

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1 as successor to the former Department of Energy and Natural
2 Resources under the Department of Natural Resources Act; or
3 (ii) in the case of a function required to be performed before
4 July 1, 1995, the former Illinois Department of Energy and
5 Natural Resources.
6     "Deinked stock" means paper that has been processed to
7 remove inks, clays, coatings, binders and other contaminants.
8     "End product" means only those items that are designed to
9 be used until disposal; items designed to be used in production
10 of a subsequent item are excluded.
11     "High grade printing and writing papers" includes offset
12 printing paper, duplicator paper, writing paper (stationery),
13 office paper, note pads, xerographic paper, envelopes, form
14 bond including computer paper and carbonless forms, book
15 papers, bond papers, ledger paper, book stock and cotton fiber
16 papers.
17     "Paper and paper products" means high grade printing and
18 writing papers, tissue products, newsprint, unbleached
19 packaging and recycled paperboard.
20     "Postconsumer material" means only those products
21 generated by a business or consumer which have served their
22 intended end uses, and which have been separated or diverted
23 from solid waste; wastes generated during production of an end
24 product are excluded.
25     "Recovered paper material" means paper waste generated
26 after the completion of the papermaking process, such as

 

 

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1 postconsumer materials, envelope cuttings, bindery trimmings,
2 printing waste, cutting and other converting waste, butt rolls,
3 and mill wrappers, obsolete inventories, and rejected unused
4 stock. "Recovered paper material", however, does not include
5 fibrous waste generated during the manufacturing process such
6 as fibers recovered from waste water or trimmings of paper
7 machine rolls (mill broke), or fibrous byproducts of
8 harvesting, extraction or woodcutting processes, or forest
9 residues such as bark.
10     "Recycled paperboard" includes recycled paperboard
11 products, folding cartons and pad backing.
12     "Recycling" means any the process by which materials that
13 would otherwise be disposed of or discarded are solid waste is
14 collected, separated, or and processed and returned to the
15 economic mainstream in the form of for reuse as either a raw
16 materials material or a products product which itself is
17 subject to recycling, but does not include the combustion of
18 waste for energy recovery or volume reduction.
19     "Tissue products" includes toilet tissue, paper towels,
20 paper napkins, facial tissue, paper doilies, industrial
21 wipers, paper bags and brown papers.
22     "Unbleached packaging" includes corrugated and fiber
23 boxes.
24     "USEPA Guidelines for federal procurement" means all
25 minimum recycled content standards recommended by the U.S.
26 Environmental Protection Agency.

 

 

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1 (Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06.)
 
2     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
3 becoming law.