1. (1) When a manufacturer accepts plastic carryout bags or other film plastic for return, the manufacturer or its agent must maintain, for a minimum of three years, records describing the collection, transport and recycling of plastic carryout bags and other film plastic collected by weight. The manufacturer or its agents must weigh the plastic carryout bags or other film plastic received at a recyclables handling and recovery facility, or other facility capable of accurately weighing or otherwise measuring the amount of film plastic collected.
2. (2) These records must be made available to the department upon request in a form prescribed by or acceptable to the department to demonstrate compliance with this section.

3. (b) Plastic carryout bags and other film plastic collected by the manufacturer, which are free of foreign material, must not be disposed of in any solid waste disposal facility.

   (c) Warnings on bags.

   Manufacturers of compostable plastic bags or other non-petroleum-based bags, except paper carryout bags, sold to stores in New York State must have a warning printed on the bag, in a manner clearly visible to the customer in type no less than one-half of an inch in height, with the words “COMPOSTABLE BAG” - DO NOT PLACE IN A RECYCLING BIN”.

(a) Records.