The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality is accepting applications for its Community Waste Reduction and Recycling Grant to assist local governments with the implementation, expansion, and improvement of waste reduction and recycling programs in North Carolina.
Donor Name: North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
State: North Carolina
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/16/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $40,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
- Priority Project Grants – Eligible for up to $40,000 in grant funding
- Priority Project Grants support investments in public recycling program areas that have been determined by DEACS to be of particular importance to growing and expanding efficient and effective waste reduction and recycling services throughout North Carolina.
- 2023 CWRAR Priority Projects include:
- Implement new or expand existing curbside recycling programs or help transition a curbside recycling program from collection using bins or blue bags to a cart-based collection system.
- Conduct outreach enforcement efforts (e.g., tagging program) to reduce contamination in the recycling stream and improve material quality. If seeking funding for educational enforcement efforts, please see additional provisions in the Special Requirements section.
- Establish or expand glass recycling collection. To qualify as a Priority Project, the community must collect glass to be recycled by a downstream glass recycling processor, not to be sent for end-use applications such as aggregate or daily cover.
- Implement new permanent Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) programs. To qualify as a Priority Project, the permanent HHW program must be open to the public at least four (4) separate days during any given fiscal year.
- Standard Project Grants – Eligible for up to $30,000 of grant funding
- Standard Project Grants include any projects that increase or enhance public waste reduction and recycling but fall outside of the 2023 priorities. Standard Projects may include but are not limited to drop-off recycling infrastructure, vehicles and infrastructure for recycling collection or consolidation, education and outreach initiatives, construction and demolition recycling, electronics recycling, or recycling of specialty wastes such as fluorescent bulbs, motor oil, cooking oil, batteries, or latex paint.
Funding Information
- Standard Project: Applicants may request any amount of grant funding up to a maximum of $30,000.
- Priority Project: Applicants may request any amount of grant funding up to a maximum of $40,000
- Project Period: July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024.
Who is Eligible?
- Local governments, defined as counties, municipalities, councils of governments and solid waste authorities in North Carolina, are eligible to apply for funding from the CWRAR grant program.
- Former CWRAR grantees are eligible to apply. Applicants with an open 2022 CWRAR grant contract must have invoiced for 90% of eligible grant funds by the proposal due date. Proposals will not be accepted from applicants with an open CWRAR grant from cycles prior to 2022. Applicants with open grants from other programs (e.g., Abandoned Manufactured Home Grants, Glass Equipment Infrastructure) are eligible to apply if open grants are in good standing and expected to be completed on time.
- Federal and state agencies, universities and colleges, and non-profit organizations are not eligible for funding through this grant program. Public schools are not eligible for funding through this grant program; however, local governments may apply for funding to support public school recycling projects – see Special Requirements section below.
Conditions on Submittals
- Only one proposal per eligible entity will be accepted. Grant proposals may combine funding requests for multiple types of projects into one proposal. The available funding limits still apply.
- Joint projects are encouraged in which two or more local governments partner on a project and contribute funding. Any local government participating in a joint project proposal may not submit additional proposals.
- Proposals will not be accepted from local governments that have not submitted the required Solid Waste and Materials Management Annual Report for the most recent fiscal year.
For more information, visit NCDEQ.
