Of the moneys received by the state from the sale of bonds pursuant to the environmental quality bond act of nineteen hundred seventy-two, one hundred seventy-five million dollars ($175,000,000) shall be expended pursuant to appropriations thereof, for municipal solid waste management projects, including at least five million dollars ($5,000,000) of this amount which shall be earmarked for resource recovery equipment, source separation equipment, or both, for the implementation of small scale, low-technology approaches to resource recovery, including source separation programs, recycling centers, composting projects and other solid waste recovery and management projects with a design capacity of less than one hundred tons per day.
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