The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is accepting grant applications for projects that build lasting capacity to support recycling markets in Minnesota.
Donor Name: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/26/2026
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The grant money must help Minnesota businesses and other entities to use recyclable material in their products, thereby increasing local demand for recyclable material. Grant money also can be used to process recyclable material into a higher value material for use in new products.
Recycling is a cost-effective way to handle waste, and it has social, economic, and environmental benefits. They need recycling markets to help create and maintain demand for recyclables. Without these end markets that use or process a recyclable material, they do not have recycling.
Funding Information
Approximately $800,000 is available. The minimum individual grant amount should be no less than $50,000. The maximum individual grant amount is $300,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants:
- New or existing businesses in Minnesota or that have a facility in Minnesota that make a product from recyclable material
- Businesses that conduct intermediary processing of recyclable material for use in manufacturing products
- Economic development districts that are financing a project that uses recycled material in its manufacturing process
- Nonprofit organizations
- Colleges, universities, local governmental units, Tribal governments, and state agencies.
Ineligibility
Eligible projects include, but are not limited to:
- Expanding existing capacity to make recycled-content products
- Processing or production methods that add value to a recyclable material
- Equipment to help process and handle material (rolling stock, or vehicle purchases, are generally not allowed, but will be looked at on a case-by-case basis, such as in the transportation of glass)
- Research, development, and testing of new products using recyclable material as a feedstock
- Research, development, and testing of existing products to use recyclable materials that currently use virgin materials as a feedstock
- Leasehold improvements that are needed to install new, refurbish, or upgrade equipment used to advance recycling end markets
- Modifying an existing building to address a capacity problem to process more recyclable material; this excludes storage space
- Projects that develop markets for finished compost that was derived from source-separated organics.
For more information, visit MPCA.
