California Code of Regulations
Title 14 - Natural Resources
Division 2 - Department of Conservation
Chapter 5 - Division of Recycling
Subchapter 12 - DOR Requirements
Article 1 - DOR Determinations and Calculations
Section 2920 - Containers Per Pound Rate
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
The method used to calculate the average number of empty beverage containers per pound, by material type, shall include sampling procedures which consider, at a minimum, the following factors:
(a) Weight by separately aggregated size categories of containers (same size) in their original manufactured and unfilled state.
(b) Weight by variously mixed aggregated size of containers (different sizes) in their original manufactured and unfilled state.
(c) Weight by separately aggregated size categories of containers (same size) in their post-filled state.
(d) Weight by variously mixed aggregated size of containers (different sizes) in their post-filled state.
(e) Weight by individually mixed aggregated size of container loads in their post-filled state as presented by consumers at recycling centers (selected statewide on a random basis).
(f) Volume of sales at wholesale and retail levels in various regions of the state.
1. Renumbering and amendment of former section 2760 to section 2920 filed 6-12-91 as a change without regulatory effect pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 91, No. 46).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 14530.5(b) and 14536, Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections 14552 and 14572, Public Resources Code.
