Grant watch
Resource Recycling highlights recent industry-related grant awards and opportunities. If your company or organization has a funding opportunity to share, contact [email protected] to be included here.
Resource Recycling highlights recent industry-related grant awards and opportunities. If your company or organization has a funding opportunity to share, contact [email protected] to be included here.
Feb. 28, 2025: The New Mexico Clean and Beautiful 2026 grant application cycle will open March 4 and close April 4. The grants are for municipalities, counties, Tribal Governments and units of government for use on litter eradication and waste reduction.
Feb. 26, 2025: CARE California Carpet Stewardship Program distributed 15 grants totaling $881,000 to 14 entities to expand convenient collection, improve fiber identification and better handle difficult-to-recycle post-consumer carpet components. It also opened the next round of grants, with applications due March 31.
Feb. 13, 2025: Grants funded by Ardagh Metal Packaging and Crown Holdings provided the Baldwin County MRF in Alabama and Cal-Waste Recovery Systems in California an eddy current and AI recognition technology, respectively, to capture 31 million additional aluminum beverage cans per year.
Feb. 7, 2025: Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania opened up grant applications for municipalities that want to host electronic recycling events. Up to seven municipalities can get up to $1,000 each to use to hire a vendor.
Feb. 5, 2025: Ohio-based Morrow County Recycling gave two $500 recycling grants to district schools to implement a student-led project related to reducing, reusing or recycling.
Jan. 27, 2025: The University of Akron in Ohio received a federal grant of $3.1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a new recycling technology to blend and purify mixed plastics.
Jan. 24, 2025: The Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy awarded $9.8 million in grants to support 136 projects covering litter reduction projects, recycling programs, scrap tire cleanups and collections for household hazardous waste, e-scrap and pharmaceuticals.
Jan. 17, 2025: The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation is accepting applications for the first round of solid waste materials management grants this year, closing April 11.
View past grants at the Grant Watch Archive