PRINTER'S NO. 1119
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1035
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY COOK, JAMES, RADER, FLOOD, BERNSTINE, E. NELSON,
MALONEY, OLSOMMER, IRVIN, KOZAK, RYNCAVAGE, ARMANINI, ROAE,
SMITH, GREINER, STEHR, HAMM, M. JONES, WHITE, MOUL, BARGER,
M. MACKENZIE, DIAMOND, CAUSER, O'NEAL AND FINK,
MARCH 24, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE
PROTECTION, MARCH 24, 2025
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380, No.97), entitled "An
2 act providing for the planning and regulation of solid waste
3 storage, collection, transportation, processing, treatment,
4 and disposal; requiring municipalities to submit plans for
5 municipal waste management systems in their jurisdictions;
6 authorizing grants to municipalities; providing regulation of
7 the management of municipal, residual and hazardous waste;
8 requiring permits for operating hazardous waste and solid
9 waste storage, processing, treatment, and disposal
10 facilities; and licenses for transportation of hazardous
11 waste; imposing duties on persons and municipalities;
12 granting powers to municipalities; authorizing the
13 Environmental Quality Board and the Department of
14 Environmental Protection to adopt rules, regulations,
15 standards and procedures; granting powers to and imposing
16 duties upon county health departments; providing remedies;
17 prescribing penalties; and establishing a fund," in general
18 provisions, further providing for definitions.
19 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
20 hereby enacts as follows:
21 Section 1. The definitions of "advanced recycling,"
22 "advanced recycling facility," "municipal waste," "processing"
23 and "treatment" in section 103 of the act of July 7, 1980
24 (P.L.380, No.97), known as the Solid Waste Management Act, are
 1 amended and the section is amended by adding a definition to
2 read:
3 Section 103. Definitions.
4 The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
5 have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the
6 meanings given to them in this section:
7 * * *
8 "Advanced recycling." The term includes:
9 (1) A manufacturing process for the conversion of post-
10 use polymers through processes, including pyrolysis,
11 gasification, depolymerization, catalytic cracking,
12 reforming, hydrogenation and other similar technologies, into
13 any of the following:
14 [(1)] (i) Basic hydrocarbon raw materials,
15 feedstocks, chemicals, liquid fuels, waxes and
16 lubricants.
17 [(2)] (ii) Other products, including, but not
18 limited to, monomers, oligomers, plastics, crude oil,
19 naphtha, liquid transportation fuels and other basic
20 hydrocarbons.
21 (2) A manufacturing process for the conversion of waste
22 tires through mechanical shredding or pyrolysis into any of
23 the following:
24 (i) Pyrolytic gases and pyrolytic gas vapors to be
25 burned directly for fuel.
26 (ii) Pyrolysis oils.
27 (iii) Limonene.
28 (iv) Solid minerals or steel.
29 (v) Recovered carbon black.
30 (vi) Transportation fuels.
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 1 (vii) Transportation fuel feedstock.
2 "Advanced recycling facility." A manufacturing facility that
3 receives post-use polymers or waste tires and separates, stores
4 and converts the post-use polymers or waste tires using advanced
5 recycling. The term does not include a resource recovery
6 facility, processing facility, municipal waste processing or
7 disposal facility or any other facility that receives unsorted
8 municipal waste for the purpose of separating out post-use
9 polymers or waste tires for use in advanced recycling.
10 * * *
11 "Municipal waste." Any garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom
12 or office waste and other material including solid, liquid,
13 semisolid or contained gaseous material resulting from operation
14 of residential, municipal, commercial or institutional
15 establishments and from community activities and any sludge not
16 meeting the definition of residual or hazardous waste hereunder
17 from a municipal, commercial or institutional water supply
18 treatment plant, waste water treatment plant, or air pollution
19 control facility. The term does not include post-use polymers or
20 waste tires that are converted through advanced recycling.
21 * * *
22 "Processing."
23 (1) The term includes any of the following:
24 (i) Any method or technology used for the purpose of
25 reducing the volume or bulk of municipal or residual
26 waste or any method or technology used to convert part or
27 all of such waste materials for off-site reuse.
28 (ii) Transfer facilities, composting facilities, and
29 resource recovery facilities.
30 (2) The term does not include any of the following:
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 1 (i) A collection or processing center that is only
2 for source-separated recyclable materials, including
3 clear glass, colored glass, aluminum, steel and
4 bimetallic cans, high-grade office paper, newsprint,
5 corrugated paper and plastics.
6 (ii) The conversion of post-use polymers or waste
7 tires through advanced recycling in which the
8 manufacturing activities, handling of the post-use
9 polymers or waste tires at an advanced recycling facility
10 and the products and by-products of the advanced
11 recycling conversion comply with all applicable
12 Environmental Protection Agency and department rules and
13 regulations.
14 * * *
15 "Treatment." Any method, technique, or process, including
16 neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical, or
17 biological character or composition of any waste so as to
18 neutralize such waste or so as to render such waste
19 nonhazardous, safer for transport, suitable for recovery,
20 suitable for storage, or reduced in volume. Such term includes
21 any activity or processing designed to change the physical form
22 or chemical composition of waste so as to render it neutral or
23 nonhazardous. The term does not include the conversion of post-
24 use polymers or waste tires through advanced recycling in which
25 the manufacturing activities, handling of the post-use polymers
26 or waste tires at an advanced recycling facility and the
27 products and by-products of the advanced recycling conversion
28 comply with all applicable Environmental Protection Agency and
29 department rules and regulations.
30 "Waste tire." A tire that will no longer be used for the
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1 purpose for which it was originally intended. The term includes
2 a tire that has been discarded. For the purpose of this act,
3 waste tires that are converted using advanced recycling shall
4 not be considered solid waste, municipal waste or residual
5 waste.
6 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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Statutes/Laws affected:
Printer's No. 1119: P.L.380, No.97