Market Development Resources

The California Integrated Waste Management Board assists the development of recycling markets and businesses, and promotes the efficient collection and recycling of secondary materials into high quality, value-added products.

• Business Waste Reduction—A directory of waste prevention information for businesses.
• CalMAX—The CalMAX directory lists residential materials and industrial materials and byproducts that can be reused. Listings are free.
• Environmentally Preferable Purchasing—Every product purchased has an impact on human health and the environment.
• Compost Market Development—Nearly 170 businesses in California produce compost and mulch. The Waste Board provides regulatory oversight and marketing assistance to compost and mulch producers.
  • Purchasing Compost and Mulch—What you need to know to produce or purchase high quality compost.
  • Compost and Mulch Source List—A list of counties which have businesses that market organic materials products.
• Publications—Market development-related publications from the CIWMB publications catalog.
• Recycled-Content Products Directory and RecycleStore—Find products made from recycled material. The Recycled Content Product Directory, the larger database,  may include products of any business in any country that manufactures or produces with recycled material. RecycleStore lists only products of businesses that are located in one of California's Recycling Market Development Zones and is targeted at consumers.
• Recycling Market Development Zone Program—CIWMB funds up to 75 percent of the startup costs, up to $2 million per business, of qualified recycling-based businesses that are located in specified areas of California.
• State Agency Buy Recycled Campaign—The State Agency Buy Recycled Campaign (SABRC) is a joint effort of CIWMB and the Department of General Services (DGS) to implement California law requiring California agencies and the Legislature to purchase products with recycled content.
• Recycled-Content Building Products—This section of the Recycled Content Product Directory lists manufacturers of recycled-content building products.
• Recycled Tire Products and Uses—Californians discard 31 million tires, and import another 3 million discarded tires, every year. Tires recycled in California are used to produce tire shreds and crumbs for new products, recycled in rubberized asphalt concrete (RAC), used in civil engineering applications, or combusted as fuel.