I’d like to request to speak to the whole package at once so you don’t have to hear me multiple times.
I rise to oppose this legislation because this legislation is burning hot garbage. Now that’s not just said to insult the work product here that’s in front of us and that has been substituted so hastily to take what was once a good bill to promote recycling and twist it into burning hot garbage, but that’s what we have here today. What we’re talking about is redefining burning hot garbage as chemical recycling as part of a greenwashing campaign and it defines these processes as including pyrolysis and gasification. What is that? It’s burning hot garbage. If you look at House Bill No. 4455, the next bill in this package, it literally defines pyrolysis as burning hot garbage. It’s a manufacturing process in which polymers are heated in the absence of oxygen until melted and thermally decomposed. What wonderful sanitized language for us to consider today about the process of burning hot garbage. I would just ask you before you vote on this legislation, to think about the people downwind from that burning hot garbage. What is it they’re going to have to breathe? Think about the people who live in that neighborhood near that burning hot garbage and then ask yourself if you really want to continue to support this burning hot garbage.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4455, entitled
A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled “Natural resources and environmental protection act,” by amending sections 11504, 11505, 11506, 11507, 11507a, and 11508 (MCL 324.11504, 324.11505, 324.11506, 324.11507, 324.11507a, and 324.11508), section 11504 as amended by 2020 PA 85, section 11505 as amended by 2018 PA 640, section 11506 as amended by 2018 PA 615, and section 11507a as amended by 2004 PA 39.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
Senator Bayer offered the following substitute:
Substitute (S-2).
The question being on the adoption of the substitute,
Senator Chang requested the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered, 1/5 of the members present voting therefor.
The substitute was not adopted, a majority of the members serving not voting therefor, as follows: