Pennsylvania SB 856: An Act amending Title 27 (Environmental Resources) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for electronic waste recycling; imposing duties on the Department of Environmental Protection; establishing the Advisory Committee on Electronic Waste Recycling; and imposing penalties.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 957
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 856
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY CAPPELLETTI, COMITTA, KANE, CULVER, HAYWOOD,
COSTA, SANTARSIERO, SAVAL, MALONE, MUTH AND SCHWANK,
JUNE 18, 2025
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, JUNE 18, 2025
AN ACT
Amending Title 27 (Environmental Resources) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, providing for electronic waste
recycling; imposing duties on the Department of Environmental
Protection; establishing the Advisory Committee on Electronic
Waste Recycling; and imposing penalties.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Electronic
Waste Recycling Modernization Act.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 27 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a chapter to read:
CHAPTER 67
ELECTRONIC WASTE RECYCLING
Sec.
6701. Scope of chapter.
6702. Definitions.
6703. Eco-fees and responsibilities.
6704. Clearinghouse.
6705. Stewardship plan.
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6706. Collection convenience standard compliance.
6707. Eco-fee.
6708. CED manufacturer requirements.
6709. Group plan requirements.
6710. Convenience standards for program collection sites.
6711. CED manufacturer recycling share responsibility.
6712. Individual manufacturer and group plans.
6713. Review of stewardship plan.
6714. Fees for collection or recycling of eligible devices.
6715. Recycler responsibilities.
6716. Collector responsibilities.
6717. Annual reports.
6718. Advisory committee .
6719. Administrative reimbursement.
6720. Environmental sound management requirements.
6721. Disposal ban.
6722. Enforcement.
6723. Antitrust.
6724. Other CED collection activities.
§ 6701. Scope of chapter.
This chapter relates to electronic waste recycling.
§ 6702. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this chapter
shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Advisory committee." The Advisory Committee on Electronic
Waste Recycling established under section 6718 (relating to
advisory committee).
"Assessment period." As follows:
(1) A period of three calendar months starting on the
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day immediately following the last day of the prior
assessment period.
(2) The first assessment period shall start on the first
day of the first program year.
"Best management practices." As follows:
(1) Collecting and preparing items for shipment and
recycling.
(2) The term may include standards for packaging for
transport, load size, acceptable load contamination levels,
non-CED items included in a load and other standards.
"CED manufacturer." As follows:
(1) A person or a successor in interest to a person,
under whose brand or label a CED is sold at retail.
(2) For a CED sold at retail under a brand or label that
is licensed from a person who is a brand owner and who does
not sell or produce a CED, the person who produced the CED or
the person's successor in interest shall be the CED
manufacturer.
(3) For a television or computer monitor sold at retail
under the brand or label of both the retail seller and the
person that produced the television or computer monitor, the
person that produced the television or computer monitor or
the person's successor in interest shall be the CED
manufacturer.
"Clearinghouse." The independent organization authorized by
section 6704 (relating to clearinghouse).
"Collection convenience standard." The minimum number of
collection opportunities that shall be provided for the
collection of CEDs as required under section 6710 (relating to
convenience standards for program collection sites).
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"Collection obligation." The CED collection services that
the clearinghouse assigns to a CED manufacturer for a given
program year under section 6706 (relating to collection
convenience standard compliance).
"Collector." A person who collects residential CEDs at any
program collection site or one-day collection event and prepares
them for transport.
"Computer." As follows:
(1) A desktop, all-in-one computer, laptop, notebook, e-
reader or tablet computer marketed to and intended for use by
residential purchasers and used only in a residence.
(2) The term does not include an automated typewriter,
electronic printer, mobile telephone, portable handheld
calculator, portable digital assistant, MP3 player or other
similar device or computer peripheral.
"Computer monitor." As follows:
(1) An electronic device only used in a residence that
has a cathode-ray tube or other panel display primarily
intended to display information from a computer or other
commonly used electronic device and marketed to and intended
for use by residential purchasers.
(2) The term does not include an all-in-one computer,