THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY DAVIS, BRADFORD, BRIGGS, V. BROWN, BROWNLEE, CALTAGIRONE, COHEN, D. COSTA, CURRY, DALEY, DAVIDSON, DeLUCA, DONATUCCI, DUNBAR, FLECK, FRANKEL, FREEMAN, GILLEN, JAMES, KOTIK, KULA, MAHONEY, MILLARD, MILNE, MUNDY, MURPHY, NEILSON, M. O'BRIEN, O'NEILL, PARKER, PASHINSKI, PRESTON, READSHAW, SABATINA, SAMUELSON, SANTARSIERO, K. SMITH, STABACK, VITALI, WATSON, WHITE, WILLIAMS, YOUNGBLOOD AND MANN, OCTOBER 17, 2012

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, OCTOBER 17, 2012  

AN ACT

Amending Title 74 (Transportation) of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes, providing for recycling containers.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Title 74 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:

§ 8124.  Recycling containers.

(a)  Availability.--If a trash receptacle is maintained for

users of a public rest area under the jurisdiction of the

commission, the commission shall maintain in close proximity to

the trash receptacle, a container for collecting glass, a

container for collecting aluminum and a container for collecting

plastic. The commission shall establish, with the local county

recycling coordinator, a method of transporting the collected

recyclable material to their respective markets in conjunction

with local existing recycling programs.

(b)  Proceeds.--The commission shall retain all proceeds

received from the recycling of items under subsection (a).

Section 2.  The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission shall

implement 74 Pa.C.S. § 8124 within one year of the effective

date of this section.

Section 3.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.