> <i>There’s a stick in a bill by Sen. Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont). It would require all beverage containers sold in California to contain a minimum amount of recycled material. CalRecycle would establish the minimum.</i><p>This would appear to disadvantage biodegradable beverage containers. Why not just tax the non-recycled portions instead of establishing a minimum, using the tax proceeds to buy recycling scrap?
I can't read it. Is this the same that what has been happening since 2016?<p>Snipped from Bloomberg: <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-06/california-s-recycling-crisis-sends-billions-of-bottles-and-cans-into-landfills" rel="nofollow">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-06/californi...</a>
Looks like the same story as <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17368168" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17368168</a>.
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