EPA opens $30M Grant Program for Consumer Recycling
Eligible applicants: states, territories, nonprofits. Applications are due: Jan 16, 2023
Announcement Type: Notice of Funding Opportunity (the program is now open for applications)
Opportunity: Consumer Recycling Education and Outreach (REO) Grant Program (EPA)
Overview and Eligible Uses: For projects that inform the public about new or existing residential or community recycling programs; provide information about the recycled materials that are accepted as part of a residential or community recycling program that provides for the separate collection of residential solid waste from recycled material; and increases collection rates and decreases contamination in residential and community recycling programs. The EPA also recognizes and encourages applications that demonstrate evidence-based messaging and strategies associated with effective communication campaigns designed to increase prevention, reuse, repair, remanufacture, recycling, anaerobic digestion, and composting in communities and/or decrease contamination in the recycling stream.
All projects must encourage the collection of recyclable materials and must achieve one or more of the following objectives:
Inform the public about residential or community recycling programs.
Provide information about the recycled materials that are accepted as part of a residential or community recycling program that provides for the separate collection of residential solid waste from recycled material.
Increase collection rates and decrease contamination in residential and community recycling programs.
Amount: About 25 awards ranging between $250,000 and $2M, for a total of $30M in funding.
Award Type: Competitive grant
Eligible Applicants: U.S. States, including Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Local governments, Federally recognized tribal governments, Native Hawaiian organizations, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Nonprofit organizations, Public-private partnerships.
Key Dates: Applications are due January 16, 2023
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