SENATE DOCKET, NO. 292        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 631

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to increase recycling by landlords and tenants..

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

 SECTION 1. Section 8H of chapter 40 of the General Laws, as appearing in

 the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the

 third paragraph the following paragraph:—

 “An owner of an apartment building having three or more units

 and any condominium association consisting of three or more

 units shall be required to provide the means and materials necessary

 to allow tenants or owners in those units to recycle paper;

 glass containers, including glass bottles and jars (soda-lime glass)

 but excluding light bulbs, Pyrex cookware, plate glass, drinking

 glasses, windows, windshields and ceramics and single polymer

 plastics, including all narrow-neck plastic containers where the

 diameter of the mouth of the container is less than the diameter of

 the body of the container. This includes single polymer plastic

 containers labeled 1-6.”