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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB0132 Introduced 1/17/2025, by Sen. Laura Fine SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: | | | Creates the Plastic Bottle Cap Reduction Act. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2029, a manufacturer may not sell, offer for sale, or distribute for sale in the State a single-use plastic beverage container with a plastic beverage cap unless the plastic beverage cap is composed of a plastic resin with the same resin identification code as the single-use plastic beverage container and the cap either (1) is tethered to the container in a manner that prevents the separation of the cap from the container when the cap is removed or (2) includes an opening from which the beverage can be consumed while the cap remains screwed onto or otherwise affixed to the container. Provides that a manufacturer that produces single-use plastic beverage containers shall provide to the Environmental Protection Agency upon request all information necessary for the Agency to determine the manufacturer's compliance with the Act. Provides for an entity with a legally recognized corporate relationship to a manufacturer to assume the manufacturer's responsibilities under the Act. Provides that the requirements of the Act do not apply to a manufacturer of beer, wine, or spirits that annually produces 50,000 gallons or less of any one or more of those products or to a manufacturer of beverages other than beer, wine, or spirits that annually produces 250,000 or fewer single-use plastic beverage containers containing its product. Provides that any person who violates any provision of the Act shall be liable for a civil penalty of $1,000 per violation per day. Authorizes the Attorney General or State's Attorney to prosecute violations of the Act. Defines terms. |
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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 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the |
5 | | Plastic Bottle Cap Reduction Act. |
6 | | Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the |
7 | | context requires otherwise: |
8 | | "Agency" means the Environmental Protection Agency. |
9 | | "Beverage" means any of the following products that are in |
10 | | liquid, ready-to-drink form, are in plastic beverage |
11 | | containers of 16 ounces or less, and are intended for human |
12 | | consumption: beer and malt beverages; wine, wine coolers, or |
13 | | distilled spirits coolers; carbonated and noncarbonated water; |
14 | | soda; carbonated and noncarbonated soft drinks and fruit |
15 | | drinks; coffee and tea drinks; and vegetable juice. |
16 | | "Manufacturer" means a person, partnership, association, |
17 | | corporation, or other entity that, through its own action or |
18 | | through contract or control of another entity, is primarily |
19 | | responsible for the production of a beverage held in a |
20 | | single-use plastic beverage container and sold, offered for |
21 | | sale, or distributed for sale in the State. |
22 | | "Plastic" means a synthetic material made from fossil fuel |
23 | | or organic-based polymers that can be molded or blown into |