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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 2024 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5799 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2021 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 2024 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT | |
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| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | REP. MCGORTY, 122nd Dist. | |
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| 18 | 18 | AN ACT ESTABLISHING STANDARDS FOR COMPOSTABLE | |
| 19 | 19 | PRODUCTS. | |
| 20 | 20 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 21 | 21 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 23 | 23 | That the general statutes be amended to require ASTM certification 1 | |
| 24 | 24 | for any product advertised as compostable and mandate such products 2 | |
| 25 | 25 | be tinted green or brown and products that do not meet such standards 3 | |
| 26 | 26 | not be labeled as biodegradable or decomposable and require that in 4 | |
| 27 | 27 | 2022 all precheckout bags be ASTM D6400 and TUV OK Home Compost 5 | |
| 28 | 28 | certified and contain at least thirty per cent total organic carbon content 6 | |
| 29 | 29 | renewable material. 7 | |
| 30 | 30 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 31 | 31 | To establish a certain standard for compostable bags and require certain | |
| 32 | 32 | checkout bags to meet particular ASTM standards for compostable | |
| 33 | 33 | products. |