(1) Increasing participation and recycling rates for specified deposit beverage containers;

(2) Providing a connection between manufacturing decisions and recycling program management; and

(1) Imposes a two-cent deposit beverage container fee on beverage container manufacturers or importers;

(2) Requires a five-cent deposit beverage container refund fee for specified glass, plastic, and metal beverage containers of 64 ounces or less; except those sold for on-premise consumption;

(3) Pays a certified redemption center a handling fee of not less than 2 cents for each deposit beverage container redeemed by a consumer and transported out-of-state or received by an in-state recycling company;

(4) Establishes redemption centers to accept empty deposit beverage containers intended to be recycled;

(5) Authorizes for reverse vending machines that accept one or more types of empty deposit beverage containers and issue a redeemable credit slip; and

(6) Establishes a special fund into which will be deposited deposit beverage container fees and deposit beverage container deposits to be used to reimburse refund values and pay handling fees to redemption centers, among other specified uses.

(1) Correcting a technical error by changing the title back to its original form: "RELATING TO RECYCLING";

(2) Clarifying that the name of the recycling program established in this bill is the Deposit Beverage Container Program (Recycling Program);

(3) Changing:

(B) The refund fee from 5 cents to 4 cents; and

(C) The handling fee from 2 cents to 1 cent;

(4) Extending the period during which the deposit beverage container fee cannot be increased from five years to seven years;

(5) Changing the reporting period to 30 days after the month of record;

(6) Requiring the reports to DOH to include the size and type of the beverage container and the amount of deposit fees and refund value by size and type of container;

(7) Requiring beverage distributors to charge dealers and consumers the deposit beverage container fee at the point of sale;

(8) Requiring invoices to include the beverage container fee as a separate line item, and allowing the container fee and refund fee to be combined in the line item;

(9) Extending the radius of the redemption centers to five miles for high and non-high density population areas;

(10) Repealing part VII of chapter 342G, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the advance glass disposal fee law, since its purpose is substantially accomplished by the Recycling Program;

(11) Changing the name of the special fund to the Deposit Beverage Container Program Special Fund;

(12) Repealing the section exempting the Special Fund from the central service expenses charge;

(13) Requiring the Auditor to submit annually to the Legislature a management and financial audit report on the Recycling Program;

(14) Commencing the Recycling Program on January 1, 2005;

(15) Changing the effective date to July 31, 2050; and

(16) Making numerous technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style, clarity, and consistency.