All rulemaking documents listed on this webpage are either available by submitting a PRA request online on the California Public Records Act Requests webpage, or by emailing Regulations@calrecycle.ca.gov. These documents are also available for public inspection during normal business hours at CalRecycle, 1001 “I” Street, 24th Floor, Sacramento, CA 95814. To schedule a time to inspect these documents, please contact Csilla Richmond at Regulations@calrecycle.ca.gov.| CalRecycle Home Page
This grant program allows different types of redemption to encourage recycling center innovation that can increase places to redeem California Refund Value (CRV) around the state.| CalRecycle Home Page
A dealer cooperative is a Section 501(c)(3) non-profit stewardship organization redeeming California Redemption Value (CRV) containers in convenience zones not served by a recycling center| CalRecycle Home Page
Applications open for $131 million to bring cash-back sites to more places Office of Public AffairsFor Immediate Release: August 7, 2025Media Contact: Lance Klug | opa@calrecycle.ca.gov California’s recycling department announced $131 million in new funding to... Read MoreRead more about California to Add Hundreds of New Recycling Sites for Easier CRV Redemption| CalRecycle Home Page
El departamento de reciclaje de California anunció $131 millones en fondos para ofrecer más opciones fáciles para el intercambio de envases de bebidas por el reembolso del depósito CRV en las comunidades que más necesitan los servicios.| CalRecycle Home Page
$131 million in new funding to expand hassle-free beverage container redemption options in communities that need them most.| CalRecycle Home Page
SACRAMENTO– With broad support from local government, environmental and industry groups, on May 12, the California State Senate voted unanimously to confirm Zoe Heller as Director of CalRecycle.| CalRecycle Home Page
SACRAMENTO – Removal of wildfire ash and debris removal has started in four California counties on properties whose owners signed up for the state’s no out-of-pocket cost property cleanup program.| CalRecycle Home Page
SACRAMENTO – California está facilitando el intercambio de sus envases de bebidas vacíos por deposito (CRV) en más de 250 sitios nuevos de reciclaje en 30 condados con fondos de subvenciones para la innovación del reciclaje de envases de bebidas.| CalRecycle Home Page
SACRAMENTO – California is making it easier than ever to cash in your empty beverage containers with more than 250 new recycling sites across 30 counties funded by recycling innovation awards.| CalRecycle Home Page
SACRAMENTO – Taking action to address growing global plastic pollution while spurring innovation and job creation, California is launching new recycling regulations, reforms and funding to reduce single-use plastic waste in our state through cutting-edge technology.| CalRecycle Home Page
SACRAMENTO – Recycling Services Alliance, Inc. (RSA) and its operations manager have been ordered to pay $140.5 million in total restitution and penalties for defrauding California’s Beverage Container Recycling Program.| CalRecycle Home Page
SACRAMENTO — CalRecycle today released key building blocks for California’s groundbreaking law to cut single-use plastic and packaging waste. Packaging makes up over 50% of what we throw away by volume and is a major contributor to climate and trash pollution.| CalRecycle Home Page
SACRAMENTO – Californians can ring in 2024 by redeeming their empty wine and liquor containers for cash. Starting January 1, California adds wine and liquor sold in bottles, cans, boxes, and pouches to the state’s Beverage Container Recycling Program to cut waste and pollution by turning more recycled materials into new products.| CalRecycle Home Page
Governor Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 793 (Ting and Irwin, Chapter 115, Statutes of 2020) on September 24, 2020.| CalRecycle Home Page
This page describes SB 343 (Allen, Chapter 507, Statues of 2021), which prohibits use of the chasing arrows or any other indicator of recyclability on products and packaging unless certain criteria are met. Increasing recycling in California first requires accurate labels on recyclables. As California moves toward a circular economy that designs all products and packaging to get recycled into new products, this law will ensure recycling labels help consumers recycle correctly.| CalRecycle Home Page
Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act| CalRecycle Home Page
