Sweeping legislation in California that would have set aggressive recycling mandates on a range of items failed to advance last month. But lawmakers in the state did approve separate recycled-content bills focused on glass and plastics. Assembly Bill 1080 and its companion bill, Senate Bill 54, were not voted on by Sept. 13, the deadline to approve legislation in California's 2019 session. That means the bills, which would have set substantial recycling and source-reduction requirements on single-use packaging, are on pause for now.
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