File #: Int 1102-2024    Version: * Name: Requiring covered stores to collect and recirculate reusable bags.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
On agenda: 11/13/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring covered stores to collect and recirculate reusable bags
Sponsors: Shaun Abreu, Shahana K. Hanif
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would require certain stores to have a bin for collection of unwanted reusable bags. Returned reusable bags, if in good condition, would be sanitized and reused by the store for future consumers.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1102, 2. Int. No. 1102, 3. November 13, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1102

 

By Council Members Abreu and Hanif

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring covered stores to collect and recirculate reusable bags

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Title 16 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new chapter 4-I to read as follows:

CHAPTER 4-I

COLLECTION AND RECIRCULATION OF REUSABLE BAGS

§ 16-499 Definitions. a. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:

Chain of stores. The term “chain of stores” means 5 or more stores located within the city that are engaged in the same general field of business and (i) conduct business under the same business name or (ii) operate under common ownership or management or pursuant to a franchise agreement with the same franchisor.

Covered store. The term “covered store” means a retail or wholesale establishment, other than a food service establishment, that sells products and provides or sells reusable bags to consumers in which to place these products and (i) has over 5,000 square feet of retail or wholesale space or (ii) is one of a chain of stores.

Reusable bag. The term “reusable bag” means any reusable bag as defined in section 27-2701 or 27-2801 of the environmental conservation law, subdivision (n) of section 351-1.2 of title 6 of the New York codes, rules and regulations, or any successor provision.

§ 16-499.1 Collection and recirculation of reusable bags. Every covered store shall place in a visible location that is easily accessible to the consumer a bin that is clearly marked as available for collection of reusable bags. Every covered store shall sanitize the collected reusable bags and recirculate them to future customers, provided that a covered store may dispose of reusable bags that are not in a condition to be reused, including due to tears, stains, or structural instability. Any bag placed in such a bin that is not a reusable bag shall be handled or disposed of in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

 

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