(a) The purpose of this chapter is to increase the amount of postconsumer apparel and textile articles that are diverted from landfills and reused, repaired, and recycled into secondary products or otherwise managed in a manner that is consistent with the state’s hierarchy for waste management practices pursuant to Section 40051.
(b) It is the purpose of this chapter that any producer, regardless of whether that producer is domiciled in California, who sells, offers for sale, or distributes a covered product into the state shall be responsible for complying with this chapter.