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                          HOUSE BILL 2888

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State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By Representative Dunshee

Read first time 01/28/94.  Referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs.

Prohibiting nonbiodegradable connectors on beverage containers.

    AN ACT Relating to the prohibition of nondegradable beverage container connectors; and amending RCW 70.132.030.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 70.132.030 and 1982 c 113 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) No person may sell or offer to sell at retail in this state any beverage container so designed and constructed that a metal part of the container is detachable in opening the container through use of a metal ring or tab.  Nothing in this section prohibits the sale of a beverage container which container's only detachable part is a piece of pressure sensitive or metallic tape.

(2) No person may sell or offer for sale at retail in this state metal beverage containers connected to each other by a separate holding device constructed of plastic rings or other material that will not decompose by photobiodegradation, chemical degradation, or biodegradation within one hundred twenty days of disposal.

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