Relates to declaring the goal of the state of New York to source reduce, reuse, recycle, or compost no less than eighty-five percent of the solid waste generated by the year 2035.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5489
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 21, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental
Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
declaring the goal of the state of New York to source reduce, reuse,
recycle, or compost no less than eighty-five percent of the solid
waste generated by the year 2035
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
2 new section 27-0102 to read as follows:
3 § 27-0102. Declaration of policy.
4 The legislature hereby declares that it shall be a goal of the state
5 of New York to source reduce, reuse, recycle, or compost no less than
6 eighty-five percent of the solid waste generated by the year two thou-
7 sand thirty-five, and annually thereafter.
8 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 3-0301 of the environmental conservation
9 law is amended by adding a new paragraph oo to read as follows:
10 oo. Advise and cooperate with planning units, as defined in section
11 27-0107 of this chapter, to achieve the goal of section 27-0102 of this
12 chapter.
13 § 3. No later than January 1, 2028, the department of environmental
14 conservation shall submit a report to the governor and the legislature
15 outlining strategies to achieve the state's goal pursuant to section
16 27-0102 of the environmental conservation law.
17 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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