260.255. Newspapers, duty to recycle, requirements--statement to be filed with department, penalty. - Missouri Statutes

Newspapers, duty to recycle, requirements--statement to be filedwith department, penalty.

260.255. 1. After January 1, 1994, each newspaper publisher in thisstate with an average daily distribution on days published of more thanfifteen thousand copies shall file a statement with the department of naturalresources certifying the total number of tons of newsprint used during thepast calendar year, and the average recycled content of such newsprint. Thestatement shall declare whether the following target percentages have been metfor the past year, and if not met, shall contain a statement explaining whythe newspaper publisher failed to meet the target percentages.

2. The target recycled content usage for each newspaper publisher foreach year shall be:

(1) 1993, ten percent;

(2) 1994, twenty percent;

(3) 1995, thirty percent;

(4) 1996, forty percent;

(5) 2000, and subsequent years, fifty percent.

3. Any newspaper publisher who fails to file a statement with or seek awaiver from the department, or who files a statement containing misleading ordeceptive information, shall be a violation of this section, punishable by acivil fine of not more than one hundred dollars per day for each day theviolation continues. Penalties imposed under this section shall be depositedinto the solid waste management fund and shall be used to further the purposesof sections 260.200 to 260.345.

(L. 1990 S.B. 530)