CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 70Introduced by Assembly Member Aguiar-CurryDecember 11, 2024An act to add Section 40178 to the Public Resources Code, relating to solid waste.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 70, as introduced, Aguiar-Curry. Solid waste: pyrolysis.The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 generally regulates solid waste disposal, management, and recycling. The act requires each city, county, and regional agency to develop a source reduction and recycling element of an integrated waste management plan. The act requires that element to include a 50% solid waste diversion requirement, as specified, and provides that up to 10% may be achieved through biomass conversion under certain conditions, with biomass conversion defined as the production of heat, fuels, or electricity by certain means from specified materials. One of the conditions for using biomass conversion to satisfy a portion of the solid waste diversion requirement is that pyrolysis not be included in the source reduction and recycling element. Pyrolysis is not defined for that purpose or for other purposes in the act.This bill would define pyrolysis as the thermal decomposition of material at elevated temperatures in the absence or near absence of oxygen.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 40178 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:40178. Pyrolysis means the thermal decomposition of material at elevated temperatures in the absence or near absence of oxygen.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 70Introduced by Assembly Member Aguiar-CurryDecember 11, 2024An act to add Section 40178 to the Public Resources Code, relating to solid waste.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 70, as introduced, Aguiar-Curry. Solid waste: pyrolysis.The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 generally regulates solid waste disposal, management, and recycling. The act requires each city, county, and regional agency to develop a source reduction and recycling element of an integrated waste management plan. The act requires that element to include a 50% solid waste diversion requirement, as specified, and provides that up to 10% may be achieved through biomass conversion under certain conditions, with biomass conversion defined as the production of heat, fuels, or electricity by certain means from specified materials. One of the conditions for using biomass conversion to satisfy a portion of the solid waste diversion requirement is that pyrolysis not be included in the source reduction and recycling element. Pyrolysis is not defined for that purpose or for other purposes in the act.This bill would define pyrolysis as the thermal decomposition of material at elevated temperatures in the absence or near absence of oxygen.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 70
Introduced by Assembly Member Aguiar-CurryDecember 11, 2024
Introduced by Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry
December 11, 2024
An act to add Section 40178 to the Public Resources Code, relating to solid waste.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 70, as introduced, Aguiar-Curry. Solid waste: pyrolysis.
The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 generally regulates solid waste disposal, management, and recycling. The act requires each city, county, and regional agency to develop a source reduction and recycling element of an integrated waste management plan. The act requires that element to include a 50% solid waste diversion requirement, as specified, and provides that up to 10% may be achieved through biomass conversion under certain conditions, with biomass conversion defined as the production of heat, fuels, or electricity by certain means from specified materials. One of the conditions for using biomass conversion to satisfy a portion of the solid waste diversion requirement is that pyrolysis not be included in the source reduction and recycling element. Pyrolysis is not defined for that purpose or for other purposes in the act.This bill would define pyrolysis as the thermal decomposition of material at elevated temperatures in the absence or near absence of oxygen.
The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 generally regulates solid waste disposal, management, and recycling. The act requires each city, county, and regional agency to develop a source reduction and recycling element of an integrated waste management plan. The act requires that element to include a 50% solid waste diversion requirement, as specified, and provides that up to 10% may be achieved through biomass conversion under certain conditions, with biomass conversion defined as the production of heat, fuels, or electricity by certain means from specified materials. One of the conditions for using biomass conversion to satisfy a portion of the solid waste diversion requirement is that pyrolysis not be included in the source reduction and recycling element. Pyrolysis is not defined for that purpose or for other purposes in the act.
This bill would define pyrolysis as the thermal decomposition of material at elevated temperatures in the absence or near absence of oxygen.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 40178 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:40178. Pyrolysis means the thermal decomposition of material at elevated temperatures in the absence or near absence of oxygen.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 40178 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:40178. Pyrolysis means the thermal decomposition of material at elevated temperatures in the absence or near absence of oxygen.
SECTION 1. Section 40178 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:
### SECTION 1.
40178. Pyrolysis means the thermal decomposition of material at elevated temperatures in the absence or near absence of oxygen.
40178. Pyrolysis means the thermal decomposition of material at elevated temperatures in the absence or near absence of oxygen.
40178. Pyrolysis means the thermal decomposition of material at elevated temperatures in the absence or near absence of oxygen.
40178. Pyrolysis means the thermal decomposition of material at elevated temperatures in the absence or near absence of oxygen.