455D.20  Refuse-derived fuel--calculation as portion of waste reduction goal.

1.  The commission shall adopt rules which provide for the inclusion of reduction attributable to refuse-derived fuel in the calculation of a city or county in meeting the waste reduction goal of the state. No more than fifty percent of the waste reduction requirement of a city or county shall be met through inclusion of reduction attributable to refuse- derived fuel in the calculation.

2.  The rules adopted by the commission under subsection 1 shall provide that only fuel derived from paper and paperboard products which are not recyclable due to contamination, including contamination from blood or egg, which occurred at the time of the use of the product for its originally intended purpose, or products which are not recyclable due to composition of the product, such as wax-coated cardboard, are included in the calculation.

Section History: Recent form

  92 Acts, ch 1213, § 3

Internal References

  Referred to in § 455B.306


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