(a) No person shall sell or offer for sale to any consumer within the State beverage containers, motor oil, or other consumer goods connected to each other with plastic connecting devices that are not degradable. This section shall not apply to the following plastic connecting devices:

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 339-22

  • Beverage: means beer or other malt beverages, mineral waters, fruit juices, ades, and other similar noncarbonated drinks, soda water, and flavored carbonated drinks, in liquid form and intended for human consumption. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 339-1
  • Beverage container: means the individual, separate, sealed glass, metal or plastic bottle or can, containing a beverage. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 339-1
  • Degradable: means all of the following:

    (1) Capable of achieving degradation by biological processes, photodegradation, chemodegradation, or degradation by other natural degrading processes;

    (2) Degradation at a rate that is equal to, or greater than, the degradation by a process specified in paragraph (1) of other commercially available plastic devices; and

    (3) Degradation which will not produce or result in a residue or byproduct which, during or after such process of degrading, would be a hazardous or extremely hazardous waste as specified in the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 339-21

(1) Plastic connecting devices that contain an enclosed hole or circle less than 1 and 1/4 inches in diameter; and
(2) Plastic connecting devices comprised of one or more rings that are broken when the beverage container or other consumer good is removed from the ring or rings.
(b) Notwithstanding § 339-24 to the contrary, any person who violates this section shall be fined $250 for each separate offense. Each day of each violation shall constitute a separate offense. Any action taken to impose or collect the penalty provided for in this section shall be considered a civil action.

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