California Code
ARTICLE 2 - Definitions
Section 25121.1.

25121.1. (a)  “Recycling” means using, reusing, or reclaiming a recyclable material.

(b)  Notwithstanding subdivision (a), for purposes of the fees, taxes, and charges imposed pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Section 25170), “recycling” means the collecting, transporting, storing, transferring, handling, segregating, processing, using or reusing, or reclaiming of recyclable material to produce recycled material.

(Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 880, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1999.)