HB402 Alabama 2024 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Terri CollinsRepresentative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2024

Title

Solid waste; to define the term mass balance attribution, further provide for recovered materials processing facilities

Summary

The bill adds an optional mass balance attribution system for tracking recycled materials and designates recovered materials processing facilities as manufacturing facilities under Alabama's waste laws.

What This Bill Does

It defines mass balance attribution as an optional chain-of-custody method to record input and output of materials, potentially supported by a third-party certification system approved by the Department of Environmental Management. It allows manufacturing facilities processing recovered materials to use this system to show recycled content in products, and it designates recovered materials processing facilities as manufacturing facilities within the Solid Wastes and Recyclable Materials Management Act. It also requires recovered materials processing facilities to notify the department by January 1, 2025, and the act takes effect on October 1, 2024.

Who It Affects

• Manufacturers and recovered materials processing facilities that handle recyclable materials, who may adopt mass balance attribution and third-party certification to document recycled content in products.
• The Alabama Department of Environmental Management and other solid waste facilities regulated under the Solid Wastes and Recyclable Materials Management Act, which will implement the new definitions, notification requirement, and regulatory treatment changes.

Key Provisions

• Mass Balance Attribution defined as an optional chain-of-custody accounting method to record input and output of materials, potentially via an approved third-party certification system.
• A third-party certification system may be used to attribute the mass of recycling feedstocks to chemical recycling products, to count as recycled content.
• Recovered Materials Processing Facility defined as a manufacturing facility under the Act and not a solid waste management facility; waste from the facility remains subject to applicable laws.
• Recovered materials processing facilities must notify the Department of Environmental Management according to department rules by January 1, 2025.
• The act becomes effective October 1, 2024.

AI-generated summary using openai/gpt-5-nano on Feb 22, 2026. May contain errors — refer to the official bill text for accuracy.

Subjects

Environmental Protection