Ohio EPA awards recycling grants to 24 recipients

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) has awarded $1.1 million in grants to 24 local governments, businesses and nonprofit organizations throughout southwest Ohio to implement recycling, litter prevention, market development and scrap tire recycling program.

According to a news release from the Ohio EPA, the agency is issuing more than $6 million in grant funding to 103 recipients statewide, with more than $3.1 million specifically for community and litter prevention grants. Other grants will help recycling facilities to purchase new equipment and expand facilities. The following are a few grants that have been awarded to recipients in southwest Ohio:

• Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions (Greene County) - $99,881 for organics composting;
• Logan County Solid Waste District - $200,000 to purchase equipment to expand fiber recovery facility;
• Royal Paper Stock Co. Inc. (Butler County) - $72,740 for paper fiber recycling; and
• Rumpke Waste and Recycling (Hamilton County) - $199,588 to purchase a shredder, knives, metal detector and slider bed.

The Ohio EPA website features a full list of its latest recycling and market development grant recipients.