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5/12/2025
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Media Advisory: House Environment Committee to hear bottle recycling bills Tuesday
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STATE HOUSE — The House Environment and Natural Resources Committee will meet Tuesday to hear bills related to the recycling of plastic bottle and other food packing waste.
The committee is scheduled to meet tomorrow, Tuesday, May 13, at the rise of the House, sometime after 4:30 p.m. in the House Lounge on the second floor of the State House. The committee is scheduled to hear several bills, including the following bills based on the recommendations of the Special Joint Legislative Commission to Study and Provide Recommendations to Protect our Environment and Natural Resources from Plastic Bottle Waste to improving recycling rates of food and beverage waste:
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2025-H 6207 — This bill introduced by Rep. Carol Hagan McEntee (D-Dist. 33, South Kingstown, Narragansett), who co-chaired the bottle waste commission, would establish a comprehensive program for extended producer responsibility for packaging and paper, and for the recycling of beverage containers. The act would also provide general provisions for oversight of single producer organizations.
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2025-H 6205 — This bill introduced by House Environment and Natural Resources Committee Chairman David A. Bennett (D-Dist. 20, Warwick, Cranston) would create the extended producer responsibility for packaging and paper program for the recycling of packaging and paper products.
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2025-H 6206 — This bill introduced by Rep. Tina L. Spears (D-Dist. 36, Charlestown, New Shoreham, South Kingstown, Westerly) would establish the Beverage Container Recycling Act.
The committee is also scheduled vote on one bill:
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2025-H 5847 — This bill introduced by Rep. Earl A. Read III (D-Dist. 26, Coventry, West Warwick, Warwick) would create an 11-member commission to study and provide recommendations and potential solutions to address the flooding of the Pawtuxet River that would report back by January 2, 2026. The committee will also consider an amendment to the bill.
Written testimony must be submitted at HouseEnvironmentandNaturalResources@rilegislature.gov. Testimony must include your name, the bill number and your viewpoint, whether for, against or neither. Sign-up sheets for in-person testimony will be available in the hearing room.
The meeting will be televised live by Capitol Television, which can be seen on Cox channel 61, on i3Broadband channel 15 and on Verizon channel 34. It will be live streamed at capitoltvri.cablecast.tv/.
For more information, contact:
Tristan Grau, Publicist
State House Room B20
Providence, RI 02903
401.222.4935
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