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(a) Before January 1, 2022, the department shall adopt regulations to develop a loan, grant, and incentive payment program and criteria to award grants or incentive payments or provide loans from the fund established in subdivision (b) to accomplish the following goals:(1) Reduce the cost to local governments and ratepayers to recycle and compost the waste generated in the state and educate residents.
(2) Reduce the cost to the state of achieving its recycling and composting goals.
(3) Develop long-term incentives to support mechanical recycling, composting, reuse, and remanufacturing infrastructure.
(4) Support programs and projects that increase the use of recycled materials in the production of fiber, plastic, and glass products and packaging.
(5) Recycle food scraps, yard trimmings, and other organic waste, recover edible food for human consumption, and increase the production and use of compost to improve the health and climate resilience of soils and food systems.
(6) Mitigate and abate the impacts of plastic pollution, resource extraction, solid waste disposal, and litter on the state’s natural environment and communities.
(b) There is hereby established in the State Treasury the California Recycling and Composting Infrastructure Fund.
(c) Upon appropriation, moneys in the fund
shall be used to fund the activities described in subdivision (a).