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131st MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST SPECIAL SESSION-2023
Legislative Document No. 1660S.P. 665 In Senate, April 13, 2023
An Act to Provide That Advanced Recycling Facilities Are Subject
to Solid Waste Regulation and That Advanced Recycling Does Not
Constitute Recycling
Reference to the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources suggested and ordered
printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator CARNEY of Cumberland. Page 1 - 131LR1000(01)
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2 is enacted to read:
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4 municipal solid waste or plastic into basic raw materials, feedstock chemicals, waxes and
5 lubricants through any means, including, but not limited to, gasification, pyrolysis,
6 hydropyrolysis, solvolysis or depolymerization.
7 is enacted to read:
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9 receives, stores and converts municipal solid waste and plastic using advanced recycling.
10 is enacted to read:
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12 pressure or solvents are used to break plastic polymers into oligomers or monomers.
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15 exposed to heat, converting carbon-based materials to synthetic fuels, chemical feedstocks,
16 waxes, lubricants or other substances and solid residues, slag, ash, char, liquid wastes or
17 wastewater.
18 as enacted by PL 1989, c. 585, Pt. E, §4, is
19 amended to read:
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21 recycle, convert using advanced recycling, reduce, recover, incinerate, dispose of or treat.
22 is enacted to read:
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24 are exposed to heat in the presence of hydrogen, converting carbon-based materials to
25 synthetic fuels, chemical feedstocks, waxes, lubricants or other substances and solid
26 residues, slag, ash, char, liquid wastes or wastewater.
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29 through a chemical reaction to create a polymer chain, including material derived from
30 either petroleum or a biologically based polymer, such as corn or other plant sources.
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33 heat in the absence of oxygen, converting carbon-based materials to synthetic fuels,
34 chemical feedstocks, waxes, lubricants or other substances and solid residues, slag, ash,
35 char, liquid wastes or wastewater.
36 as enacted by PL 1989, c. 585, Pt. E, §4, is
37 repealed and the following enacted in its place:
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39 collected, transported, sorted and processed for use as an industrial feedstock in place of Page 2 - 131LR1000(01)
40 raw materials to manufacture new products with minimal loss of material quality and
41 quantity. "Recycling" does not include energy recovery or energy generation by any means,
42 including, but not limited to, advanced recycling, combustion, gasification, incineration,
43 pyrolysis, solvolysis, hydropyrolysis thermal desorption, waste-to-energy, waste-to-fuel or
44 any other chemical or molecular conversion process.
6 as enacted by PL 2019, c. 619, §2, is
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9 in the recycling of materials. "Recycling facility" does not include an advanced recycling
10 facility.
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13 with a solvent and subjected to heat or high pressure.
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15 This bill amends the definition of "recycling" and defines "advanced recycling,"
16 "advanced recycling facility" and terms used in those definitions in the laws governing the
17 management of solid waste. The bill provides that advanced recycling facilities are not
18 recycling facilities for the purposes of regulating solid waste. It also amends the definition
19 of "handle" to clarify that a facility that converts solid waste or plastic using advanced
20 recycling is a solid waste facility.
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