The Recycling Partnership, through funding from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) is offering grants to communities to enhance residential curbside, drop off, and multifamily recycling programs.
Donor Name: Recycling Partnership
State: Michigan
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/10/2023
Size of the Grant: $200,000
Details:
This month, The Recycling Partnership and the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy announced communities with fewer than 10,000 households are eligible for a grant to introduce communitywide projects aimed at reducing recycling contamination and improving the quality of materials recycled at curbside, drop-off locations or multifamily properties.
Funding Information
There is grant funding available for MI communities to conduct a quality improvement recycling campaign in an effort to reduce contamination by 25 percent. Expenses for this program are expected to be at $3/household for drop off programs and $4/household for curbside programs, with a maximum of $150,000/200,000 per grant application. There is also additional grant funding available at $1.00/household to take data gathered during the quality improvement project and create an additional education program to amplify specific messages. Grant funding for multifamily projects is available up to a maximum of $100,000 per grantee.
Eligible Expenses
Grant eligible expenses will include, but are not limited to:
- Staff for project implementation
- Infrastructure needs
- Printing and mailing direct mail pieces
- Website and other social media
- Signage
- Anti-contamination security solutions (i.e. fencing, cameras, etc.)
- One-year subscription to an online recycling digital communication platform
- Other innovative contamination reduction strategies
Eligibility Criteria
Any Michigan community or regional authority representing a group of communities, both rural and urban, who operate or contract out a curbside recycling program, a drop-off recycling program or a combination of both, are eligible for grant funding. Previous grantees are also eligible to apply for the new App to Action grant money that furthers education and outreach after the Quality Improvement Grant has been conducted. New funding is also available this year for communities in need of multifamily recycling infrastructure and/or quality improvement.
For more information, visit Recycling Partnership.
