The 2024-2025 Kentucky Pride Fund Recycling Grant is leverage limited funds into efficient and cost effective projects that will help Kentuckians develop an integrated recycling infrastructure and recycling public education program.
Donor Name: Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet
State: Kentucky
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/01/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The goal of the program is to leverage limited funds into efficient and cost effective projects to help Kentucky develop an integrated recycling infrastructure, manage Household Hazardous Waste and provide recycling and HHW public education programs.
Priority will be given to regional recycling projects and regional household hazardous waste management programs with state approved interlocal cooperative agreements.
Funding Information
$50,000 is available for the 2024-2025 Kentucky Pride Fund Recycling Grant.
Eligible Expenditures
- Vertical and horizontal balers producing bales of 60” in length (minimum) weighing at least 800 lbs. of recyclable materials, i.e., cardboard (OCC).
- Conveyors.
- Forklifts – pneumatic tires only.
- Bucket loaders, skid steer loaders.
- Scales.
- Manual pallet jacks.
- Portable dock plates and forklift ramps.
- Collection “drop-off” trailers.
- Recycling dumpsters (i.e. “coffin” roll-off containers).
- Classroom recycling containers in schools, up to 25% of grant request
- Used Gaylord-type boxes.
- Glass pulverizers.
- Aluminum can flattener-blowers, and densifiers.
- Sorting conveyors.
- Stackable concrete barrier blocks for constructing storage bunkers.
- Community recycling bins in public locations or residences
- Other equipment that generates a material with positive market value will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
- Electric utility installation/connections [not applicable for property rented/leased from a private entity] necessary for operating recycling processing equipment (i.e. 3 phase 220/460 volt power for balers, densifiers, conveyors, etc.).
- Advertising for recycling participation and regular reporting in local/regional media, signs, displays and banners for recycling facilities and recycling educational materials for school programs
- Personnel to teach school recycling programs.
Who can apply?
Any county, waste management district, city, urban-county government, or other political subdivision of the state or any combination of the above, including school districts, shall be eligible to apply.
For more information, visit KEEC.
