Used Mattress Recovery and Recycling Act: mattress recycling charge: consumer education.

Assemblymember Hoover's mattress recycling legislation modifies California's Used Mattress Recovery and Recycling Act by creating new payment options for the mandatory recycling charge while expanding consumer education requirements. The measure revises how mattress sellers collect and remit recycling fees that fund the state's mattress recovery program.

Under the updated law, distributors, retailers, and sellers may enter written agreements with mattress recycling organizations to pay recycling charges directly on consumers' behalf, rather than adding the fee as a separate line item on sales receipts. The legislation also requires these businesses to educate customers about mattress recycling programs and available free collection or dropoff locations. These educational materials must include details about both the recycling charge and disposal options through documentation provided by the mattress recycling organization.

The changes maintain the existing requirement that recycling charges be remitted according to procedures established by the mattress recycling organization. The law continues to mandate that manufacturers, renovators, retailers and distributors add the charge to mattress purchase prices within 90 days after the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery approves the program budget.