Section 509 – Recycling data.

• (1) As used in this section:
  • (a) “Municipal solid waste” means nonhazardous solid waste, including garbage, refuse, office waste, or other similar material that results from the operation of residential, municipal, commercial, or institutional establishments or community activities.
  • (b) “Recyclable material” means municipal solid waste that is suitable for recycling.
  • (c) “Recyclable material hauler” means a person, including a political subdivision, who:
    • (i) for compensation, collects and transports recyclable material; and
    • (ii) uses the billing and collection system of a political subdivision to bill or collect payment from the recyclable material hauler’s customers.
  • (d) “Recycle” means to take action to recover recyclable materials from the municipal solid waste stream for the purposes of use or reuse, conversion into raw materials, or use in the production of new products.

• (2) A recyclable material hauler shall report, in accordance with Subsection (3) and according to the best of the recycler’s knowledge, the approximate tonnage of recyclable material collected by the recyclable material hauler that the recyclable material hauler delivered to:
  • (a) a landfill; and
  • (b) a recycling facility.

• (3)
  • (a) At least two times each calendar year, a recyclable material hauler shall provide the information described in Subsection (2) to the political subdivision whose billing and collection system the recyclable material hauler uses.
  • (b) The recyclable material hauler shall provide data under Subsection (3)(a) for the longer of:
    • (i) the time since the recyclable material hauler last provided the data; or
    • (ii) six months before the day on which the data is provided.

• (4) Within 45 days after the day on which a recyclable material hauler provides data under this section, a political subdivision shall publish the data, as available:
  • (a) in a newsletter produced by the municipality; and
  • (b) on a website operated by the municipality.

Enacted by Chapter 385, 2022 General Session