AR HB1944

Excludes post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks from the definition of "solid waste" under Arkansas Solid Waste Management Act and regional solid waste management district regulations.

Defines "advanced plastic recycling" as manufacturing processes converting post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks into hydrocarbon raw materials, chemicals, and products including monomers, oligomers, naphtha, waxes, lubricants, and coatings, but explicitly excludes conversion to fuel or fuel substitutes for energy production.

Specifies nine advanced recycling processes including pyrolysis, gasification, depolymerization, catalytic cracking, reforming, hydrogenation, solvolysis, mechanical recycling, and other similar technologies.

Defines "advanced recycling facility" as a manufacturing facility that receives, stores, and converts post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks using advanced plastic recycling techniques while subject to applicable manufacturing regulations for air, water, waste, and land use.

Establishes detailed definitions for "post-use polymer," "recovered feedstock," and specific recycling processes (pyrolysis, gasification, depolymerization, solvolysis, and mechanical recycling) that distinguish material recovery processes from energy recovery and waste incineration.