Senate Study Bill 3119 - Introduced SENATE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT BILL BY CHAIRPERSON DEARDEN) A BILL FOR An Act relating to energy recovery as a form of recycling for 1 waste volume reduction purposes. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 5772SC (1) 84 tm/nh

S.F. _____ Section 1. Section 455D.1, subsection 6, Code 2011, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 6. “Recycling” means any process by which waste, or 3 materials which would otherwise become waste, are collected, 4 separated, or processed and revised or returned to use in the 5 form of raw materials or products. “Recycling” includes but 6 is not limited to the composting of yard waste which has been 7 previously separated from other waste , but does not include any 8 form of energy recovery . 9 EXPLANATION 10 This bill relates to energy recovery as a form of recycling. 11 Currently, in Code chapter 455D relating to waste volume 12 reduction, the term “recycling” does not include any form 13 of energy recovery. The bill provides that energy recovery 14 is included in the term recycling thereby including energy 15 recovery within the provisions of Code chapter 455D relating to 16 waste reduction policies and goals. 17 -1- LSB 5772SC (1) 84 tm/nh 1/ 1