“Recycle” or “recycling” means the process of collecting, sorting, cleansing, treating, and reconstituting materials that would otherwise become solid waste, and returning them to the economic mainstream in the form of raw material for new, reused, or reconstituted products which meet the quality standards necessary to be used in the marketplace. “Recycling” does not include transformation, as defined in Section 40201 or EMSW conversion.
Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 40180
Definitions
Known as the California Integrated Waste Management Act
The act spans §§ 40000–49654 (1,051 sections).
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Industrial Waste & Debris Box Service, Inc. v. Murphy (2016)
Most recently applied in Industrial Waste & Debris Box Service, Inc. v. Murphy (October 2016)
Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 411, Sec. 3
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.