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State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB2088 Introduced 2/6/2025, by Sen. Erica Harriss SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 415 ILCS 20/2 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052415 ILCS 20/2.1 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052.1 Amends the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act. Adds thermal conversion to the State's solid waste management hierarchy. Defines "thermal conversion" as the process by which a solid feedstock can be converted to produce environmentally safe products, including, but not limited to, liquid fuels, chemicals, hydrogen, and other products. LRB104 11356 BDA 21444 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB2088 Introduced 2/6/2025, by Sen. Erica Harriss SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 415 ILCS 20/2 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052415 ILCS 20/2.1 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052.1 415 ILCS 20/2 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052 415 ILCS 20/2.1 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052.1 Amends the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act. Adds thermal conversion to the State's solid waste management hierarchy. Defines "thermal conversion" as the process by which a solid feedstock can be converted to produce environmentally safe products, including, but not limited to, liquid fuels, chemicals, hydrogen, and other products. LRB104 11356 BDA 21444 b LRB104 11356 BDA 21444 b A BILL FOR
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB2088 Introduced 2/6/2025, by Sen. Erica Harriss SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
415 ILCS 20/2 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052415 ILCS 20/2.1 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052.1 415 ILCS 20/2 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052 415 ILCS 20/2.1 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052.1
415 ILCS 20/2 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052
415 ILCS 20/2.1 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052.1
Amends the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act. Adds thermal conversion to the State's solid waste management hierarchy. Defines "thermal conversion" as the process by which a solid feedstock can be converted to produce environmentally safe products, including, but not limited to, liquid fuels, chemicals, hydrogen, and other products.
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1 AN ACT concerning safety.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Illinois Solid Waste Management Act is
5 amended by changing Sections 2 and 2.1 as follows:
6 (415 ILCS 20/2) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052)
7 Sec. 2. Public Policy. (a) The General Assembly finds:
8 (1) that current solid waste disposal practices are not
9 adequate to address the needs of many metropolitan areas in
10 Illinois;
11 (2) that the generation of solid waste is increasing while
12 landfill capacity is decreasing;
13 (3) that siting of new landfills, transfer stations,
14 incinerators, recycling facilities, or other solid waste
15 management facilities and the expansion of existing facilities
16 is very difficult due to the public concern and competition
17 with other land uses for suitable sites;
18 (4) that more effective and efficient management of solid
19 waste is needed in a manner that promotes economic
20 development, protects the environment and public health and
21 safety, and allows the most practical and beneficial use of
22 the material and energy values of solid waste;
23 (5) that state government policy and programs should be
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB2088 Introduced 2/6/2025, by Sen. Erica Harriss SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
415 ILCS 20/2 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052415 ILCS 20/2.1 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052.1 415 ILCS 20/2 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052 415 ILCS 20/2.1 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052.1
415 ILCS 20/2 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052
415 ILCS 20/2.1 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052.1
Amends the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act. Adds thermal conversion to the State's solid waste management hierarchy. Defines "thermal conversion" as the process by which a solid feedstock can be converted to produce environmentally safe products, including, but not limited to, liquid fuels, chemicals, hydrogen, and other products.
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1 developed to assist local governments and private industry in
2 seeking solutions to solid waste management problems;
3 (6) that the purchase of products or supplies made from
4 recycled materials by public agencies in the State will divert
5 significant quantities of waste from landfills, reduce
6 disposal costs and stimulate recycling markets, thereby
7 encouraging the further use of recycled materials and
8 educating the public about the utility and availability of
9 such materials;
10 (7) that there are wastes for which combustion would not
11 provide practical energy recovery or practical volume
12 reduction, which cannot be reasonably recycled or reused and
13 which have reduced environmental threat because they are
14 non-putrescible, homogeneous and do not contain free liquids.
15 Such wastes bear a real and substantial difference under the
16 purposes of the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act from solid
17 wastes for which combustion would provide practical energy
18 recovery or practical volume reduction, which can be
19 reasonably recycled or reused, or which are putrescible,
20 non-homogeneous or contain free liquids;
21 (8) since it is the policy of the State as set forth in the
22 Environmental Protection Act to assure that contaminants
23 discharged into the atmosphere or waters of the State are
24 given the degree of treatment or control necessary to prevent
25 pollution, that wastes generated as a result of removing
26 contaminants from the air, water or land bear a real and
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1 substantial difference from other wastes in that the
2 generation of wastes containing pollution treatment residuals
3 can improve the environment in Illinois and should be
4 encouraged;
5 (9) since it is the policy of the State as set forth in the
6 Environmental Protection Act to promote conservation of
7 natural resources and minimize environmental damage by
8 encouraging and effecting recycling and reuse of waste
9 materials, that wastes from recycling, reclamation or reuse
10 processes designed to remove contaminants so as to render such
11 wastes reusable or wastes received at a landfill and recycled
12 through an Agency permitted process bear a real and
13 substantial difference from wastes not resulting from or
14 subject to such recycling, reclamation, or reuse and that
15 encouraging such recycling, reclamation or reuse furthers the
16 purposes of the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act;
17 (10) that there are over 300 landfills in Illinois which
18 are permitted to accept only demolition or construction debris
19 or landscape waste, the vast majority of which accept less
20 than 10,000 cubic yards per year. By themselves these wastes
21 pose only a minimal hazard to the environment when landfilled
22 in compliance with regulatory requirements in an
23 Agency-permitted site without commingling with other wastes
24 and, as such, landfills receiving only such wastes bear a real
25 and substantial difference from landfills receiving wastes
26 which are commingled. Disposal of these wastes in landfills
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1 permitted for municipal wastes uses up increasingly scarce
2 capacity for garbage, general household and commercial waste.
3 It is the policy of the State to encourage disposal of these
4 wastes in separate landfills.
5 (b) It is the purpose of this Act to reduce reliance on
6 land disposal of solid waste, to encourage and promote
7 alternative means of managing solid waste, and to assist local
8 governments with solid waste planning and management, and to
9 promote conversion into environmentally safe products. In
10 furtherance of those aims, while recognizing that landfills
11 will continue to be necessary, this Act establishes the
12 following waste management hierarchy, in descending order of
13 preference, as State policy:
14 (1) volume reduction at the source;
15 (2) recycling and reuse;
16 (3) thermal conversion;
17 (4) (3) combustion with energy recovery;
18 (5) (4) combustion for volume reduction;
19 (6) (5) disposal in landfill facilities.
20 (Source: P.A. 85-1440.)
21 (415 ILCS 20/2.1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052.1)
22 Sec. 2.1. Definitions. When used in this Act, unless the
23 context otherwise requires, the following terms have the
24 meanings ascribed to them in this Section:
25 "Agency" means the Environmental Protection Agency.
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1 "Department", when a particular entity is not specified,
2 means (i) in the case of a function to be performed on or after
3 July 1, 1995 (the effective date of the Department of Natural
4 Resources Act) and until the effective date of this amendatory
5 Act of the 102nd General Assembly, the Department of Commerce
6 and Community Affairs (now Department of Commerce and Economic
7 Opportunity), as successor to the former Department of Energy
8 and Natural Resources under the Department of Natural
9 Resources Act; or (ii) in the case of a function required to be
10 performed before July 1, 1995, the former Illinois Department
11 of Energy and Natural Resources.
12 "Deinked stock" means paper that has been processed to
13 remove inks, clays, coatings, binders and other contaminants.
14 "End product" means only those items that are designed to
15 be used until disposal; items designed to be used in
16 production of a subsequent item are excluded.
17 "High grade printing and writing papers" includes offset
18 printing paper, duplicator paper, writing paper (stationery),
19 office paper, note pads, xerographic paper, envelopes, form
20 bond including computer paper and carbonless forms, book
21 papers, bond papers, ledger paper, book stock and cotton fiber
22 papers.
23 "Paper and paper products" means high grade printing and
24 writing papers, tissue products, newsprint, unbleached
25 packaging and recycled paperboard.
26 "Postconsumer material" means only those products
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1 generated by a business or consumer which have served their
2 intended end uses, and which have been separated or diverted
3 from solid waste; wastes generated during production of an end
4 product are excluded.
5 "Recovered paper material" means paper waste generated
6 after the completion of the papermaking process, such as
7 postconsumer materials, envelope cuttings, bindery trimmings,
8 printing waste, cutting and other converting waste, butt
9 rolls, and mill wrappers, obsolete inventories, and rejected
10 unused stock. "Recovered paper material", however, does not
11 include fibrous waste generated during the manufacturing
12 process such as fibers recovered from waste water or trimmings
13 of paper machine rolls (mill broke), or fibrous byproducts of
14 harvesting, extraction or woodcutting processes, or forest
15 residues such as bark.
16 "Recycled paperboard" includes recycled paperboard
17 products, folding cartons and pad backing.
18 "Recycling" means the process by which solid waste is
19 collected, separated and processed for reuse as either a raw
20 material or a product which itself is subject to recycling,
21 but does not include the combustion of waste for energy
22 recovery or volume reduction.
23 "Thermal conversion" means the process by which a solid
24 feedstock can be converted to produce environmentally safe
25 products, including, but not limited to, liquid fuels,
26 chemicals, hydrogen, and other products.
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