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California Is Much Crazier Than You Thought

If you make or sell any kind of textile product in California, this is what you face today: Your as-yet-undetermined future costs will ‘shift to an eco-modulated model,’ actual numbers not yet known.

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Throwing away an old pair of socks is a matter of the greatest imaginable complexity. It requires an extensive state plan, supervised by a nongovernmental organization that imposes mandatory payment obligations on the company that made the socks. The socks have to be safely discarded, and that requires extensive planning by a public-private partnership.

Following the passage of SB 707, the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024, every significant manufacturer of textile products that sells its products in California (even if the manufacturer doesn’t make anything there) has in theory been forced to join a “producer responsibility organization” (PRO) that will develop a textile recycling plan. Penalties for intentional noncompliance will run $50,000 per day “if the violation is intentional or knowing,” and a misstatement to state regulators regarding textile recycling will be regarded as perjury, a felony. Read the bill: Its intent is to minimize the “environmental justice impacts” of your discarded socks.

The Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024 was authored by former state Sen. Josh Newman, who now teaches as an unpaid senior fellow in the School of Social Ecology at UC Irvine.

A whole compliance industry is springing up around the new law, starting with the requirement that every company that sells textiles in California join the PRO by........

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