In 2014, California recycled 50 percent of its waste. Lawmakers are upset at the way that companies account for and advertise the percentage of recycled products in various types of containers and packaging. The legislation “[r]equires that recycled content claims be based on the actual physical recycled content in a product without the use of credit-based mass balance accounting … or similar approaches that are not based on the actual physical recycled content in the product.” As the bill’s author, Assembly member Tasha Boerner, D-Encinitas, explains, “Currently, companies can utilize accounting to obscure the actual recycled content of their products. Practically speaking, California’s efforts to micromanage the labeling of recycled products haven’t gone very well to date.