HB 5659 Summary

• Establishes recycling and reuse of materials, including electronics, as principal objectives of Michigan's solid waste management plan to conserve resources and minimize landfilling.

• Prohibits disposal of medical waste, beverage containers, whole motor vehicle tires, used oil, lead acid batteries, radioactive waste, hazardous waste, PCBs, and asbestos in landfills unless specific conditions are met.

• Removes the prohibition on yard clippings in landfills and municipal incinerators, allowing them to be disposed of in these facilities as one management option.

• Permits yard clippings to be managed through composting on property, temporary accumulation, composting facilities (with a $600 registration fee), farm composting, or processing plants as alternatives to landfill disposal.

• Allows yard clippings composed of diseased, infested, or invasive species collected through eradication programs to be disposed of in incinerators without being required to compost them first.