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.

April 4, 2025: The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources opened applications for its E-Cycle Wisconsin Electronics Collection Grant, which can be used for electronics collection sites or events between June 2025 and December 2026. The application deadline is April 30.

April 1, 2025: Two MRFs in Alabama and California installed equipment to boost beverage cans capture, thanks to grants from the Can Manufacturers Institute’s MRF can capture program, which is funded by Ardagh Metal Packaging and Crown Holdings. Those are the seventh and eighth grants that AMP and Crown have financed. The Recycling Partnership administers the grants. 

April 1, 2025: The Carton Council is offering grants of up to $5,000 to U.S. and Canadian K-12 schools to establish, enhance or expand food and beverage carton recycling programs.

March 28, 2025: The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection awarded $16.2 million in grants to communities across the state, based on 2022 recycling performance. The monies come from the state’s Recycling Enhancement Act and are funded through a $3 per-ton tip surcharge. 

March 28, 2025: The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection awarded $15 million from its Materials Management Infrastructure grant program. Grants are targeted at developing small- to medium-scale diversion infrastructure. 

March 28, 2025: Applications for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s Reduce, Reuse, Repair Micro-Grants will open April 15 and close on May 15. There is $125,000 available and MassDEP will host a virtual information session on April 1.

March 18, 2025: The Foodservice Packaging Institute’s Foam Recycling Coalition opened 2025 applications for its grant program. Facility operators, non-profits and solid waste authorities can apply for grants of up to $50,000 to help establish or enhance foam polystyrene recycling. The application deadline is April 15.

March 18, 2025: The High Country Conservation Center and Summit County, Colorado, are offering grant funding for local nonprofits, businesses, homeowners associations, schools and government agencies for projects that increase diversion, recycling and composting. The deadline to apply is June 1.March 17, 2025: The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy opened applications for grants for projects that promote and support the cleanup and reuse of scrap tires in the state. The application deadline is April 18.

March 10, 2025: The Indiana Department of Environmental Management awarded American Resources Corporation’s subsidiary Electrified Materials a $911,519 matching grant from the Waste Diversion Project. Electrified Materials recycles rare earth magnets.

Feb. 28, 2025: New York-based Empire State Development launched the Business Food Waste Mitigation Grant Program, a $4 million initiative aimed at reducing food waste from large-scale businesses via capital equipment funding for municipalities and nonprofit organizations.

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