Sec. 12801. Grant program
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The Administrator shall establish and carry out a program to award grants, on a competitive basis, to eligible entities for projects that are consistent with zero-waste practices. An eligible entity receiving a grant under this subtitle may use grant funds to carry out a project relating to organics recycling infrastructure, including facilities, machinery, equipment, and other physical necessities required for organics collection or processing on a city-wide or county-wide scale, provided that— implementation of such project— results in increased capacity for residential and commercial source separated organics streams; and generates a usable product that has demonstrable environmental benefits when compared to the input materials, such as compost with added nutritional content; and such project does not include mixed-waste composting.
An eligible entity receiving a grant under this subtitle may use grant funds to carry out a project relating to electronic waste reuse or recycling, including infrastructure and technology, research and development, and product refurbishment, provided that such project— does not include an electronic waste buy-back program that provides compensation for used electronics where such compensation is applied as a credit toward the purchase of additional electronics; and is carried out by an organization certified in sustainable electronic waste standards by an organization accredited by the National Accreditation Board of the American National Standards Institute & The American Society of Quality, or another accrediting body as determined appropriate by the Administrator.
An eligible entity receiving a grant under this subtitle may use grant funds to carry out a project relating to source reduction, and such project may include— educational programming and outreach activities to encourage behavioral changes in consumers that result in source reduction; and product or manufacturing redesign or redevelopment to reduce byproducts, packaging, and other outputs if— the applicable manufacturer— is domestically-owned and operated; and pays a living wage; and the redevelopment or redesign does not result in higher toxicity of the product or byproducts, more complicated recyclability of the product or byproducts, or increased volume of byproducts compared with the original practice.
An eligible entity receiving a grant under this subtitle may use grant funds to carry out a project relating to market development with respect to source reduction and waste prevention, including by creating demand for sorted recyclable commodities and refurbished goods and promoting domestically-owned and operated manufacturing for projects relating to source reduction or waste prevention, provided that such project— targets easily or commonly recycled materials which are disproportionately disposed of in landfills or incinerated; addresses the reduction of the volume, weight, or toxicity of waste and waste byproducts; and does not conflict with— minimum-content laws, such as post-consumer recycled content requirements; beverage container deposits; programs funded through retail fees for specific products or classes of products that use such fees to collect, treat, or recycle such products; or any applicable recycled product procurement laws and expanded sustainable government purchasing requirements, as identified by the Administrator.