Pub. Resources Code, § 40180 · Chapter 2. Definitions
Pub. Resources Code, § 40180
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
“Recycle” or “recycling” means the process of collecting, sorting, cleansing, treating, and reconstituting materials that would otherwise become solid waste, and returning them to the economic mainstream in the form of raw material for new, reused, or reconstituted products which meet the quality standards necessary to be used in the marketplace. “Recycling” does not include transformation, as defined in Section 40201 or EMSW conversion.
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History
Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 411, Sec. 3. (AB 1126) Effective January 1, 2014.
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