Misery for California shoppers as grocery bills set to spike due to new law (recycling)

NY Post ^ | 7/12/26 | Nina Joudeh

[Libloather]

Misery on the menu?

California shoppers could soon be paying even more at the checkout line as a sweeping new state recycling measure threatens to send grocery prices soaring, with dairy manufacturers warning some businesses may be forced to shut down or flee the Golden State.

Senate Bill 54 is now entering its first phase of implementation, with companies expected to receive their first bills as early as next month, reported SFGATE.

The measure aims to reduce landfill waste by making manufacturers financially responsible for the packaging they sell after it is thrown away.

It charges companies impact fees on products they sell while also requiring them to phase out packaging that cannot be adequately reused, recycled or composted.

The dairy industry says it stands to be among the hardest hit because many of its products rely on packaging that does not currently meet the measure’s requirements.

CalRecycle, however, estimates the impact will be far smaller, projecting households will pay between $57 and $190 more annually based on data from the California Department of Finance.

Supporters say those added costs are outweighed by shifting the financial burden of packaging waste from taxpayers to the companies that produce it.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Food; History
KEYWORDS: california; garbage; gettingitgoodandhard; grocery; law

[Libloather]

Shaddap and send in the loot.

[Texas Eagle]

Meanwhile, demonicRATS and the Fake News Media (but I repeat myself) are foaming at the mouth that gas went up 6 cents last week.

Enjoy the warm suck of Collectivist Nationalist Socialism.

[Texas Eagle]

CalRecycle, however, estimates the impact will be far smaller, projecting households will pay between $57 and $190 more annually based on data from the California Department of Finance.

Yeah, because neither CalRecycle nor the Commiefornia Dept. of Finance have any incentive to lie.

[Wuli]

Look at stupid California voters, these kind of bills are 50% just pretentious virtue signalling by the politicians and 50% just another gimmick to tax Californian’s more, period.

[ConservativeMind]

California just keeps hurting its citizens, but it adores its illegals.

[SpaceBar]

California doesn’t even behave like a state in the Union anymore. It’s more like a rogue breakaway colony.

[butlerweave]

Soon California will ban all food except Beans and Rice ,LOL

[Vision]

Californians seek misery.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

by making manufacturers financially responsible

Rule #1 - any law that makes a manufacturer or store "financial responsible" means that the manufacturer or store is simply going to raise prices and pass the cost to consumers.

[PAR35]

Supporters say those added costs are outweighed by shifting the financial burden of packaging waste from taxpayers to the companies that produce it.

Shifting the burden from large companies to people who eat food.

[Mariner]

“The measure aims to reduce landfill waste by making manufacturers financially responsible for the packaging they sell after it is thrown away.

It charges companies impact fees on products they sell while also requiring them to phase out packaging that cannot be adequately reused, recycled or composted. “

I wondering what a cogent argument in opposition to this looks like. Anyone have any input on that?

[Rummyfan]

The cost of doing business in California is prohibitive. Across the board….

[Thank You Rush]

“”making manufacturers financially responsible for the packaging they sell after it is thrown away.””

What horrible writing - goes along with the idiots proposing whatever it is they’re thinking about, I guess. Manufacturers SELL packaging after it is thrown away?

I know it’s late and I’m tired but this doesn’t make any sense to me. I assume they’re talking about the PRODUCTS we buy that are packaged in a certain material. At any rate, they need to knock off the booze, sober up and enter the real world OR is that the real world?

[nwrep]

An average new graduate engineer makes $200,000 in California.

[central_va]

The average salary for an entry-level engineer in California is approximately $108,823 per year as of July 2026. Salaries typically range from $86,595 to $138,112 annually depending on experience and location

[frank ballenger]

Everybody get a hankie ready for the tears of sympathy for a state’s voters that put it in a Governor and state legislature (State Assembly and State Senate) totally under full Dem control for decades. A “trifecta.”

I’m doing well at holding back the tears.

[midwest_hiker]

They should say gas prices are up due to new fees to pay for disposal of old cars.

[Carry_Okie]

Recycling plastics is a cruel ruse. They're collected by the consumer, washed, picked up in a second diesel truck, brought to the "recycling facility" where they a are sorted for what is usable, and the rest is baled, trucked to the dock, shipped to Asia, and then to be dumped into the Pacific Ocean.

It should be burned as fuel for generating electricity (it's what they do in Germany), but that's in competition with the (Noisome) Getty empire and others.

[Arkady]

B-b-b-but affordability!

[FatherofFive]

Show me the cost benefit - all costs in - that recycling works. Yes, aluminum. Paper, ok. Nothing else