North Carolina HB 8: Various Statutory Changes.

Bill Text

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 2
HOUSE BILL 8
Committee Substitute Favorable 6/17/25

Short Title: NC Managing Environmental Waste Act of 2025. (Public)
Sponsors:
Referred to:
January 30, 2025
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO REDUCE AND BETTER MANAGE THE DISPOSAL OF SINGLE-USE 2
WASTE. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1.(a) G.S. 143-58.2 reads as rewritten: 5
"§ 143-58.2. State policy; bid procedures and specifications; identification of products. 6
(a) It is the policy of this State to encourage and promote the purchase of products with 7
recycled content. All State departments, institutions, agencies, community colleges, and local 8
school administrative units shall, to the extent economically practicable, purchase and use, or 9
require the purchase and use of, products with recycled content. 10
(a1) It is the policy of this State that all State departments, institutions, agencies, 11
community colleges, and local school administrative units shall, to the extent economically 12
practicable, purchase and use, or require the purchase and use of, materials and supplies with 13
compostable or recyclable content in food establishments operated under the auspices of the 14
department, institution, agency, community college, and local school administrative unit. 15
(b) No later than January 1, 1995, the The Secretary of Administration and each State 16
department, institution, agency, community college, and local school administrative unit 17
authorized to purchase materials and supplies or to contract for services shall review and revise 18
its bid procedures and specifications for the purchase or use of materials and supplies to eliminate 19
any procedures and specifications that explicitly discriminate against materials and supplies with 20
recycled content, except where procedures and specifications are necessary to protect the health, 21
safety, and welfare of the citizens of this State. 22
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(d) The Department of Administration, in cooperation with the Division of 24
Environmental Assistance and Outreach Customer Service of the Department of Environmental 25
Quality, shall identify materials and supplies with recycled content that meet appropriate 26
standards for use by State departments, institutions, agencies, community colleges, and local 27
school administrative units. 28
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(i) On or before October 1 of each year, each State department, institution, agency, 30
community college, and local school administrative unit authorized to purchase materials and 31
supplies shall report to the Division of Environmental Assistance and Customer Service of the 32
Department of Environmental Quality the amounts and types of materials and supplies with 33
compostable and recycled content that were purchased during the previous fiscal year." 34
SECTION 1.(b) G.S. 130A-309.14 is amended by adding a new subsection to read: 35

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"(n) On or before October 1 of each year, each State department, institution, agency, 1
community college, and local school administrative unit shall report to the Division of 2
Environmental Assistance and Customer Service of the Department of Environmental Quality 3
the amounts and types of materials collected for recycling within the department, institution, 4
agency, community college, and local school administrative unit." 5
SECTION 1.(c) G.S. 130A-309.06(c) reads as rewritten: 6
"(c) The Department shall report to the Environmental Review Commission Commission, 7
the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations, and the Fiscal Research Division 8
on or before April 15 of each year on the status of solid waste management efforts in the State. 9
The report shall include: 10
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(22) A summary of the reports by each State department, institution, agency, 12
community college, and local school administrative unit authorized to 13
purchase materials and supplies detailing the amounts and types of materials 14
and supplies with compostable and recycled content that were purchased 15
during the previous fiscal year, as required by G.S. 143-58.2(i). 16
(23) A summary of the reports by each State department, institution, agency, 17
community college, and local school administrative unit detailing the amounts 18
and types of materials collected for recycling during the previous fiscal year 19
within the department, institution, agency, community college, and local 20
school administrative unit, as required by G.S. 130A-309.14(n)." 21
SECTION 2. The North Carolina Policy Collaboratory (Collaboratory) at the 22
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shall study the issue of food service ware. In 23
conducting this study, the Collaboratory shall examine all of the following matters: 24
(1) The environmental impacts of plastics pollution. 25
(2) The State's current requirements for plastics recycling. 26
(3) Estimates of the proportionate vo