Minnesota

Market Development Information
Significant Legislative Action
State Solid Waste Data
State Recycling Business Directory Information
Materials Exchange and Reuse Programs
JTR Grants Awarded
Other Important State Links

Market Development Information:

Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance (OEA)
Contact Information:
Wayne Gjerde
520 Lafayette Road North, 2nd Floor
St. Paul, MN 55155-4100
Phone: 651 215-0270
Fax: 651 215-0246
E-mail: wayne.gjerde@moea.state.mn.us
Web site: www.moea.state.mn.us/market

Available Publications:
Minnesota's Value-Added Recycling Manufacturing Industries: Economic Activity Summary; How to Develop Markets; Business Assessment: Support for Reuse and Recycling Manufacturing Companies; Testing High-End Reuse of Engineering Plastics
from Used Electronic Products; Recycling Markets Directory; Recycled Products Directory.

Environmental Assistance Grant and Loan Program
Minimum Request: Maximum Request:	None Established by RFP
Eligible Applicants:	Local government, private business, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions.
Eligible Uses of Funds:	Startup financing, research and development, machinery and equipment, construction and renovation, expansion financing, product testing.
Restrictions:	Recycling businesses only.

Minnesota Department of Administration
Contact Information:
Brenda Theilen Willard
Materials Management Division
112 Administration Building
50 Sherburne Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55155
Phone: 651 282-5799
Fax: 651 297-3996
E-mail: brenda.willard@state.mn.us
Web site: www.mmd.admin.state.mn.us

Available Publications:
Department of Administration Pollution Prevention Summary Report; Department of Administration State Resource Recovery Report (addresses recycled-content purchasing and waste abatement activities).
Minnesota Department of Revenue
Contact Information:
Sales and Use Tax Division
Mail Station 6330
St. Paul, MN 55146-6330
Phone: 651 296-6181
Fax: 651 296-1938
E-mail: salesuse.tax@state.mn.us
Web site: www.taxes.state.mn.us

Financial Assistance:
Resource Recovery Facility Sales and Use Tax Exempt

Eligible Applicants:	Waste facilities established and used for resource recovery.
Restrictions:	Recycling businesses and resource recovery.

Equipment Sales Tax Exemption
Eligible Applicants:	Manufacturing industries.
Eligible Uses of Funds:	Machinery and equipment.
Restrictions:	Paper recycling businesses only.

Recycling Processing Equipment Exemption
Eligible Applicants:	Local government, manufacturing industries, service industries.
Eligible Uses of Funds:	Machinery and equipment.
Restrictions:	Recycling processors only.

Significant Legislative Action:

The OEA presented its 2003 Solid Waste Policy Report, A Vision for Solid Waste Management, to the Legislature in January 2004. This report provides a number of policy recommendations that the OEA will be pursuing. The report is available at: www.moea.state.mn.us/policy/policy2003.cfm.

State Solid Waste Data:

For information on Minnesota's solid waste and recycling figures from the Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance:

Recycling Figures - Provides an overview of the latest recycling figures
Recycling Statistics - Provides specific recycling statistics
Solid Waste Figures

State Recycling Business Directory Information:

Minnesota Recycled Products Directory
Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance
520 Lafayette Road North, Second Floor
St. Paul, MN 55155-4100
Contact: Tina Patton
Phone: 651 215-0214
Fax: 651 215-0246
E-mail: tina.patton@moea.state.mn.us
Web site: www.moea.state.mn.us/rpdir/index.cfm
Minnesota Recycling Markets Directory
Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance
520 Lafayette Road North, 2nd Floor
St. Paul, MN 55155
Contact: Ann Bernstein
Phone: 651 215-0258
Fax: 651 215-0246
E-mail: ann.bernstein@moea.state.mn.us
Web site: http://www.moea.state.mn.us/market/markets/index.cfm

Materials Exchange and Reuse Programs

JTR Grants Awarded:

Minnesota ('94 - Recycling Business Assistance Center [RBAC])
The Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance is supporting commodity specialists to remove barriers to increased use of recycled materials in the wood fiber, plastics, and composites industries.
For more information on the 1994 Minnesota RBAC grant see JTR Grant Series: Minnesota || PDF version (4 pp., 112 KB, About PDF)

Minnesota ('97 - Durable Plastics, Waste Paint, and Glass Market Development)
The Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance (OEA) will develop processing and local recycling and reuse market capacity for durable plastics, waste paint, and glass. OEA will conduct feedstock characterizations and material testing, provide contracting for technical and consulting expertise, coordinate market planning work, and access financial assistance to address capital funding needs for processing and manufacturing capacity.