Solid Waste: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026

Legislative staff filed 18 bills from the 2025-26 session under Solid Waste. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.

• HB 1071 · Recycling, postconsumer recycled content requirements
• HB 1150 · Packaging, requiring producer responsibility organizations, new chapter
• HB 1154 · Facility permits, health reviews
• HB 1497 · Collection bins, requirements including color coding
• HB 1550 · Recycling, new chapter with electric vehicle battery restrictions
• HB 1607 · Recycling refund program, establishing
• HB 1789 · Recycling, creating the photovoltaic module advisory committee to make recommendations
• HB 1901 · Recycling, requiring producer responsibility organizations for mattresses
• HB 2018 · Solid waste collection businesses, taxing users of
• SB 5033 · PFAS chemicals, requiring testing standards for biosolids and creating advisory committee
• SB 5045 · Batteries, electric vehicles, expanding battery stewardship program to include
• SB 5058 · Recycling, postconsumer recycled content requirements
• SB 5175 · Recycling, creating the photovoltaic module advisory committee to make recommendations
• SB 5284 · Packaging, requiring producer responsibility organizations, new chapter
• SB 5360 · Hazardous waste management, specifying various violations as crimes
• SB 5502 · Recycling refund program, establishing
• SB 5586 · Recycling, new chapter with electric vehicle battery restrictions
• SB 5703 · Emissions, exemption for certain municipal solid waste system

All topics · All 2025-26 Washington State bills

Source: the Washington State Legislature’s Topical Index. OlympiaTrack is an independent bill-tracking service and is not affiliated with the Legislature.