California AB 2253 (Recycled Content Claims) Clears Senate Environmental Quality 4-2, Advances to Appropriations

Legislative update, July 13, 2026. Part of the EPR Atlas weekly packaging EPR update log.

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Legislative  |  CA  |  July 13, 2026

On July 1, 2026 the California Senate Environmental Quality Committee passed AB 2253 (Boerner) on a 4-2 vote and re-referred it to Senate Appropriations, where a hearing is set for August 3, 2026. The bill amends Public Resources Code 42357.6 to require recycled-content claims to reflect actual physical recycled content, prohibiting mass balance accounting and constraining chemical-recycling-based PCR compliance under SB 54. Source: California Legislature (leginfo, AB 2253 bill history, July 2026).

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