Host: Deena Bosworth
Guests: Christina Miller of Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy; Madeline Fata of MAC
Topic: County responsibilities under revised state law for creating plans and implementing them to handle materials.

State law adopted in the 11th hour of the legislative session that ended in December 2022 made sweeping changes to local government responsibilities for materials management.

Christina Miller of the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy discusses that new law and requirements with MAC's Deena Bosworth and Madeline Fata in this special episode of Podcast 83.

Among key points made during the session:

• All counties will have to adopt a new materials management plan that extends the focus beyond solid waste. Provisions of the old plan stay in effect until the new plan is adopted.
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• The state, Miller says, does not see materials management as a single-county system. The state is urging collaboration among counties and local governments.
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• The state is hoping to spur the needed infrastructure for managing materials statewide.

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