The Missouri Recycling Market Development Program
The Missouri Market Development Program (MMDP) helps companies make
effective use of high-quality materials recovered from household and
industrial waste. The result: economic and environmental improvement
for Missourians. Development of recycling markets helps reduce the amount
of potential recyclables sent to landfills and ensures that these items
are actually used as raw materials to make new products. The MMDP offers
valuable resources to businesses that can benefit from using recyclables
in the manufacturing process. This includes companies that want to implement
new processes or expand their current production capabilities. The financial
assistance offered by the MMDP is targeted toward developing and expanding
manufacturing capacity in Missouri to utilize recovered materials. Manufacturing,
for the purpose of the program, is any type of activity that utilizes
recovered materials as feedstock to produce a marketable product.
Businesses and organizations that take advantage of this program may
be eligible for the following:
Financial Incentives
Missouri businesses can qualify for up to $50,000 through MMDP to purchase
machinery and equipment or to modify existing equipment to manufacture
products from recovered material (excluding metals) or convert recovered
material into feedstock for others to use.
Technical Assistance
Companies can use technical support to explore and evaluate
manufacturing processes that use recovered material, including paper,
plastics, wood, textiles, asphalt, organics and more.
Information Services
The MMDP can also provide businesses with timely information that will
help increase the manufacturing, marketing and purchasing of recycled
content products. You may get help to:
- Locate recycled feedstock
- Evaluate market conditions
- Develop products
- Develop business plans
- Educate buyers and vendors about recycled content products and promoting
these Missouri-made products.
Who is eligible to participate in this program? An individual, private
business, non-profit or public institution currently operating in Missouri,
or who will be operating in the state as a result of the project, is
eligible. All projects must be located in Missouri and be based on a
technology that has been demonstrated beyond the research stage. Further,
the project must be technically feasible for full-scale operation and
comply with all applicable environmental, safety and legal requirements.
Examples of recent projects include:
EnvironPak (Earth City)
Manufacturing of molded paper packaging products using recycled newsprint.
$50,000 was used to purchase additional tanks and piping to increase
production capacity.
Tri-Rinse, Inc. (St. Louis)
Recovers off-specification or returned products from plastic containers
for reuse and reformulation and grinds, cleans and flakes containers
for use by plastic manufacturers. $50,000 to be used to buy specialized
shredder to process plastic and recover contents.
Sho-Me Pallets (Rolla)
Buys, repairs and rebuilds a wide variety of wooden pallets from industry.
$50,000 to be used to buy a variety of pallet rebuilding equipment.
BioSpan Technologies, Inc. (Washington) Rejuvenates recycled asphalt
paving millings using scrap tire rubber and shingles into new paving
material. $50,000 to be used to purchase equipment necessary to manufacture
product.
Learn more about the Missouri Market Development program by visiting
the website at www.missouribusiness.net/uoe/momarketdevelopment.shtml.
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Authored by: Rick Sparks, Business and Industry
Specialist, University of Missouri Extension
Source: Creating Quality Newsletter, Volume
12, Number 6, June 2003
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