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EPA Announces $117 Million in Grants Available to Advance Recycling
Infrastructure and Prevent Wasted Food
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7 – 11201 Renner Blvd., Lenexa,
KS 66219
Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Nine Tribal Nations
EPA Announces $117 Million in Grants Available to Advance Recycling
Infrastructure and Prevent Wasted Food 
LENEXA, KAN. (SEPT. 16, 2024) – Today, Sept. 16, as part of President
Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency announced $117 million for three separate funding opportunities to
advance recycling infrastructure and boost food waste prevention education
across the country. Two of the notices are for Solid Waste Infrastructure for
Recycling grants – one funding opportunity for Tribes and intertribal
consortia and another for communities (such as cities, counties, and parishes)
across the country. The third notice is for EPA’s Recycling Education and
Outreach grant program and is focused on food waste prevention and composting.
All three opportunities are made possible by President Biden’s Bipartisan
Infrastructure Law, which provided the largest EPA investment in recycling in
more than 30 years.
“Today we make another historic investment to reduce waste across the
Nation,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan. “Thanks to President
Biden’s Investing in America agenda, EPA is deploying unprecedented
resources to improve recycling services and increase educational outreach to
communities. When we work together to prevent waste that contributes to
climate change, we support local economies, create jobs that pay well, and
better protect the health of everyone in the community.”
Some communities that lack waste management infrastructure do not have
curbside waste collection services, recycling, or composting programs, which
increases the strain on local waste management systems and increases
greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, mismanaged waste contributes to health
and economic issues in historically underserved and overburdened communities.
Increasing recycling reduces climate, environmental, and social impacts of
materials use and keeps valuable resources in use instead of in landfills.
Preventing wasted food from ending up in landfills plays an important role in
reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The grant opportunities announced today will improve waste management systems
and consumer education and outreach on waste prevention and recycling, meeting
Congress’ goal to create a stronger, more resilient, and cost-effective U.S.
recycling system. These funding opportunities also put the concrete steps
identified in the “National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and
Recycling Organics” into action.
The projects that EPA will fund under the Recycling Education and Outreach
grant selection—including a national education and outreach campaign—will
lead to more recycling through composting, less wasted food from households,
better markets for selling compost, and less contamination in the compost
stream. Projects funded through the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling
grants will improve post-consumer materials management and infrastructure. In
addition, the grants support EPA’s “National Recycling Strategy” goal of
building an economy devoted to keeping materials, products, and services in
circulation for as long as possible – what’s known as a circular economy.
EPA anticipates releasing its final “National Strategy to Prevent Plastic
Pollution” in the coming months. All are part of EPA’s series on creating
a circular economy for all.
Both the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling and Recycling Education and
Outreach grant programs advance President Biden’s historic Justice40
Initiative, which aims to deliver at least 40% of the overall benefits of
certain federal climate, clean energy, affordable and sustainable housing,
clean water, and other investments to communities that are marginalized by
underinvestment and overburdened by pollution.
Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program
The recycling funding for Tribes and intertribal consortia will provide
approximately $20 million total in awards ranging from $100,000 to $1.5
million each. The recycling funding for communities will provide approximately
$58 million total in awards ranging from $500,000 to $5 million each. This
includes projects that will improve collection, transport, systems, and
processes related to post-use materials that can be recovered, reused,
recycled, repaired, refurbished, or composted. Read more about eligible
applicants and activities for these funding opportunities for Tribes and
intertribal consortia and those available to communities. EPA anticipates
announcing a SWIFR funding opportunity for states and territories next year.
Recycling Education and Outreach (REO) Grant Program
The funding for the REO grant program will provide approximately $39 million
for one award. EPA seeks coalition applications that include the following
elements: (1) a project to develop and implement a national consumer wasted
food reduction campaign; (2) a project that will increase the market for and
sales of compost; and (3) a project that will increase education and outreach
to households on composting. Applicants must demonstrate they will subaward a
portion of the total award to implement education and outreach activities
locally, which will benefit local communities. Read more about eligible
applicants and activities for this funding opportunity for recycling education
and outreach.
Learn more about how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is Transforming U.S.
Recycling and Waste Management.
For information about the current recycling grant program recipients, visit
the recycling grant recipient webpage.
For more information on preventing wasted food, visit the Sustainable
Management of Food webpage.
Learn more about EPA’s circular economy work.
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