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CalRecycle tells senators edible‑food grants lack sustained funding; bag‑in‑a‑box fees set above HDPE rates
Summary
CalRecycle Director Zoe Heller told the Budget Subcommittee that edible food recovery grants depend on legislative appropriation and currently lack sustained funding, while new processing-fee calculations for wine packaging (bag‑in‑a‑box) average about $0.32 per container versus $0.00867 for HDPE.
CalRecycle representatives said the department's 2026–27 priorities include landfill response, composting, compliance assistance and fraud prevention for the beverage container recycling program, but several implementation gaps remain.
Director Zoe Heller told the Senate Budget Subcommittee No. 2 that the Governor's proposed 2026–27 budget includes roughly 987 positions (transcript reads "9 87") and about $1.9 billion for CalRecycle across 30 funds. Heller said prior investments in edible food recovery have recovered more than 300,000,000 meals but that the agency does not have a sustained funding mechanism in place to continue those specific grant…
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