California Code of Regulations › Title 14 - Natural Resources › Division 7 - Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery › Chapter 4 - Resource Conservation Programs › Article 3 - Rigid Plastic Packaging Container Program › Section 17943 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following definitions, as well as the definitions found
					 in Public Resources Code Sections
					 42300-
					 42345,
					 apply to the regulations in this Article.
(a) "Calendar Year" means a year beginning
				  January 1 and ending December 31.
(b) "Concentrated Product" means a product
				  which has been intensified, or made denser or stronger, to achieve more uses
				  per unit.
(c) "Container Line"
				  means a group of rigid plastic packaging containers manufactured with identical
				  plastic resin(s), layers, style, shape, volume and weight.
(d) "Container Manufacturer" means a company
				  or a successor company that manufactures and sells any rigid plastic packaging
				  container subject to this Article to a product manufacturer that sells or
				  offers for sale in California any product held in that container.
(e) "Curbside Collection Program" means a
				  recycling program that collects materials set out by households for collection
				  at the curb at intervals not less than every two weeks. "Curbside collection
				  program" does not include redemption centers, buyback locations, drop-off
				  programs, material recovery facilities, or plastic recovery
				  facilities.
(f) "Department" means
				  the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery.
(g) "Director" means the Director of the
				  Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery.
(h) "Final End User" means the person or
				  entity that removes the product from the rigid plastic packaging container and
				  discards or recycles the rigid plastic packaging container.
(i) "Material Type" for purposes of this
				  Article means feedstock categories, such as, but not limited to, paper, glass,
				  aluminum and individual plastic resins.
(j) "May" means a provision is
				  permissive.
(k) "Measurement
				  Period" means the calendar year for which compliance is being determined as
				  part of the certification or auditing process described in Sections
				  17945.1,
				  17945.2,
				  17945.3,
				  17945.5,
				  17947, and
				  17948.1 of this Article. For
				  products introduced for sale in California after January 1 of a measurement
				  period, their first measurement period shall be the remainder of that calendar
				  year.
(l) "Must" or "Shall" means a
				  provision is mandatory.
(m) "Newly
				  Introduced Product" means any product held in a rigid plastic packaging
				  container that is first sold or offered for sale in California after January 1,
				  1995. Products for which such claims as "new" or "improved" are made and
				  products for which the rigid plastic packaging container has been changed by
				  such criteria as size, color, or labeling, are not "newly introduced" packages
				  or products.
(n) "Non-Source
				  Reduced Container" means a rigid plastic packaging container that is not
				  considered source-reduced under the criteria established for this program as
				  found in Sections
				  17943(af) and
				  17945.3(d)(2)-(5)
				  of this Article.
(o) "Original
				  Rigid Plastic Packaging Container" means a rigid plastic packaging container
				  that is holding a product when initially sold to the final end user and which
				  may later be reused or refilled, as stated in Section
				  17945.3(d)(6) and
				  (d)(7) of this Article.
(p) "Particular Type Rigid Plastic Packaging
				  Container" means a rigid plastic packaging container which holds a single type
				  of generic product, such as all purpose cleaner or detergent.
(q) "Postconsumer Material (PCM)" means a
				  material that would otherwise be destined for solid waste disposal, having
				  completed its intended end-use and product life cycle.
(1) Rigid plastic packaging containers
				  holding obsolete or unsold products that are commonly disposed, and not
				  commonly reused within an original manufacturing process, shall be considered
				  postconsumer material when used as feedstock for new rigid plastic packaging
				  containers or under the alternative compliance method in Section
				  17944.1.
(2) Finished plastic packaging that has been
				  rejected by a container or product manufacturer, and that is commonly disposed,
				  may be considered postconsumer material if it is later used in a process other
				  than the original manufacturing and fabrication process.
(3) Postconsumer material does not include
				  materials and by-products generated from, and commonly reused within, an
				  original manufacturing and fabrication process.