(AGENPARL) – mer 13 settembre 2023 Issued: Sep 13, 2023 (5:14pm EDT)
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EPA awards $3,995,000 for new recycling and materials recovery facility in
Chaffee County, Colorado
New waste operations serving residents and businesses funded through the
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
Salida, Colo. (September 13, 2023) – Today, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) announced $3,995,000 from President Biden’s
Investing in America agenda to build and operate a new waste transfer station
and materials recovery facility for recycling and organic waste in Chaffee
County, Colo. The grant award to the County is part of the agency’s newly
created Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) funding opportunity.
EPA is also making $450,938 available to the state of Colorado to improve
solid waste management planning and data collection in communities across the
state. Thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, this funding to expand and
create new waste management facilities in Colorado is part of EPA’s largest
recycling investment in 30 years.
 “EPA Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling funds are helping
communities across the nation develop new capacity to reuse waste and reduce
local and global environmental impacts,” said EPA Regional Administrator KC
Becker.  “These new facilities will help meet long-standing needs and serve
Chaffee County residents for many years to come.”
“The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is continuing to deliver for our
communities, and this significant funding for Chaffee County will help us
reduce waste, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and enhance recycling
initiatives in our area,” said U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen. “To
protect our environment for future generations, we must invest in
comprehensive strategies to compost and recycle everything we can, giving our
materials a second life. These EPA grants give our communities the tools they
need to expand their operations and make a greater impact for Coloradans.”
The EPA grant will enable Chaffee County to pursue plans to build and operate
a new transfer station and materials recovery facility on a five-acre section
of the County Landfill property north of the city of Salida. The new facility
will help Chaffee County and its municipal partners significantly increase
diversion of Municipal Solid Waste and reduce waste-related greenhouse gas
emissions. Development of these services, including a public drop-site, has
been identified as the top priority to support and expand community waste
diversion infrastructure and increase rates of community participation in
recycling and composting programs. 
The new facility is expected to help the community substantially decrease the
volume of recyclable and recoverable waste that ends up in the county landfill
or must be trucked hundreds of miles away for processing.  Municipal solid
waste and organic wastes constitute 60% of wastes currently sent to landfill;
an estimated 90% of that material is recyclable or compostable.
 “As a small, rural community, Chaffee County has struggled for many years to
establish permanent, holistic solid waste diversion and materials recovery
systems,” said Beth Helmke, Deputy County Administrator for Chaffee County.
“This significant funding from EPA’s SWIFR grant program will allow Chaffee
County to scale and sustain our support for local recycling programs and
achieve more of our ambitious environmental stewardship goals. Constructing a
local transfer station and materials recovery facility here will be
transformational for our region’s approach to recycling and waste
management.” 
The grant award to Chaffee County is part of the agency’s newly created
Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling funding opportunity. As part of
today’s announcement, EPA selected 25 communities across the nation to
receive grants totaling more than $73 million. In addition, the agency is
making available approximately $32 million for states and territories to
improve solid waste management planning, data collection and plan
implementation.
These grants are advancing the Justice40 Initiative, which aims to ensure that
40% of the overall benefits of certain federal investments flow to communities
that are marginalized, underserved and overburdened by pollution. The
recycling grants for communities will support improvements to waste management
systems across the country, with the highest grant amounts supporting those
states and territories that need it the most.
These grants represent important steps toward achieving the EPA’s National
Recycling Goal and Food Loss and Waste Reduction Goal and will help build an
economy devoted to keeping materials, products and services in circulation for
as long as possible, what’s known as a circular economy.
Additional Background
Today’s announcement for states, territories and communities is the first
round of funding from this new grant program. In the coming months, EPA will
announce the selected recipients of the recycling grants for Tribes and
intertribal consortia, as well as the recipients of EPA’s new Recycling
Education and Outreach grant program. 
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides $275 million total from fiscal year
2022 to fiscal year 2026 for grants authorized under the Save Our Seas 2.0
Act, the largest investment in recycling in 30 years. The recycling grants are
supplemented with additional funding provided through EPA’s annual
appropriations. EPA has selected these entities to receive funding for
recycling infrastructure projects and anticipates making all the awards
announced today once all legal and administrative requirements are
satisfied. 
For details about the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling Grant Program
selectees and other Bipartisan Infrastructure Law-related funding
opportunities, visit the EPA recycling grants webpage.
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