The Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) offers the Recycling and Waste Diversion (RWD) Grant as part of the Solid Waste Trust Fund (SWTF) Grant Program.
Donor Name: Georgia Environmental Protection Division (GAEPD)
State: Georgia
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/04/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Grants will be awarded each fiscal year subject to the amount of funds available that year, and there may be multiple rounds of funding in a year. Eligible applicants may apply for any amount up to the maximum available in that cycle. Awarded grant funds may pay up to 100% of project costs, subject to available funding. Grant funds must be spent according to the proposed budget.
Funding Information
The budget for the FY25 RWD Grant Cycle is $2.5 million.
Grant Period
The timeline for the portion of the project funded by this grant may not exceed 24 months in length.
Eligible Project Examples
The RWD Grant allows applicants to develop project proposals that best support their communities’ needs. Projects must focus on increasing recycling, reducing waste, and/or diverting recoverable materials from the solid waste stream as described in the authorized uses of the SWTF.
Examples of RWD Grant projects may include, but are not limited to:
- Recycling and Waste Diversion Infrastructure – Projects that create, expand, or improve infrastructure at materials recovery facilities (MRF), recycling transfer stations, convenience centers, or through other equipment that will increase the capacity to serve customers.
- Hub and Spoke Development – Projects that create, expand, or improve the operation of recycling hub and spoke infrastructure, collection, distribution, and logistics.
- Hard-to-Recycle Materials – Projects that create, expand, or improve the operation of hard-torecycle and/or household hazardous waste recycling facilities.
- Recovery of Additional Materials – Projects that collect and/or process new material streams
- Waste Reduction – Projects that create, expand, or improve programs at the local level to reduce waste.
- Innovation – Projects that demonstrate innovative processes for waste reduction or innovative use of recycled products.
Awarded projects fell into three categories: Equipment Projects, Recycling Collection Projects, and Pilot Projects. Below are examples to guide applicants in planning for competitive projects. These are only examples; other types of projects may also be funded.
- Equipment Projects:
- Procurement of recycling equipment – Projects that purchase, install, and utilize equipment, such as bins, forklifts, skid steer, densifier, glass crusher, bailer, compactor, or collection vehicles, to increase collection, recycling, and diversion.
- Recycling capability expansion projects – projects that increase recycling capabilities by improving or replacing infrastructure to recycle or divert new or more material.
- Recycling Collection Projects:
- Household hazardous waste collection events – one or multi-day events hosted to collect specific household hazardous waste which is then properly handled and recycled by a certified and/or permitted vendor.
- Recycling collection bin/drop-off locations – projects that identify specific locations to strategically place new recycling collection or drop-off bin locations.
- Pilot Projects:
- Projects seeking to jump start new community recycling initiatives, such as a residential composting collection program.
- Projects seeking to evaluate participation rates and tonnage collected over the course of the pilot project.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants and recipients for the RWD Grant include:
- Counties, municipalities, or any combination of the same, hereafter referred to as local governments;
- Public authorities, agencies, commissions, or institutions.
Local government applicants must have Qualified Local Government status as of the date of their application, as determined by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs.
For more information, visit GAEPD.
