Recycling Market Development Zone Program

Economic Developers

Increase Business in Your Area With the RMDZ Program

Recent studies concluded that recycling creates jobs and tax revenue--it’s good for the local economy!

So is the RMDZ program, which provides incentives to businesses that manufacture products using materials that would normally end up at the landfill. The business must be located in one of the zones throughout California.

Did you know that:

• Recycling isn't just putting out a few bins at the workplace--it’s what happens to that material after it is collected that the real money is made.
• Recycling employs over 85,000 tax paying Californians.
• Recycling generates almost $4 billion in taxable income, almost $5 billion in taxable sales and more than $10 billion in new products an services.
• Recycling is big business…comparable to other large industries in California. It is as large as the movie and video industry.
• Over 5,300 recycling and reuse establishments do business in California?

Whether your goal is to fuel existing business, attract new business, or to encourage start-ups, the Recycling Market Development Zone program can help. By offering profitable incentives, including attractive loans, free program marketing money, technical assistance, and more it’s an innovative way to encourage manufacturers to move to certain areas of the State of California.

For more information, search for a Recycling Market Development Zone and contact the zone’s administrator. Or contact the R-Team (see below).

Last updated: October 24, 2007