(a) There is hereby established, under the direction and control of the Waste Management Authority, a program to reduce litter by encouraging the collection for recycling of certain containers and other recyclable materials in the Territory through a mechanism that would financially compensate persons for redeeming such materials and foster the establishment of redemption centers for the collection of such material to be in turn delivered to resource recovery facilities.
(b) Every beverage container, paper product or other material which is offered for sale in the Territory and which is designated by the Waste Management Authority as recyclable and for which redemption centers have been established in the Territory shall have a minimum redemption value as set by the Waste Management Authority.
(c) The public may return such recyclable materials to appropriate redemption centers and receive therefor, a payment of not less than the minimum redemption value, as set by the Waste Management Authority, from the redemption center.
(d) No more than monthly, or at such times determined by rule of the Waste Management Authority, the operators of redemption centers may certify to the Waste Management Authority for the district in which the redemption center is located, on forms provided by the Waste Management Authority, the amount of redemption payments made to the public for recyclable materials and shall receive a reimbursement from the Antilitter and Beautification Fund in an amount established by rule of the Waste Management Authority. Reimbursements for properly documented claims of redemption centers shall be paid within two weeks of receipt of such claim by the Waste Management Authority.
(e) Any person who satisfies the licensing and operation requirements of the Waste Management Authority and has complied with all other applicable laws of the Territory may establish a redemption center and shall have the right to determine the type of containers or other recyclable material that shall be accepted at that center. Redemption centers shall accept all such containers or recyclable material of the type redeemed by that center which are in reasonably clean and usable condition.
(f) The Waste Management Authority shall develop rules and regulations for the operation of this section.