A state program to promote and encourage recycling has awarded $465,068 in grants.
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management’s Community Recycling Grant Program has awarded 18 recipients throughout the state of Indiana to receive the grants to fund recycling and waste-reduction projects.
"These projects will result in environmental improvements for Hoosiers who live and work in communities across Indiana,” IDEM Commissioner Brian Rockensuess said in a press release.
The grants provide funding for projects that increase education and promotion of recycling, waste reduction, organics management, and household hazardous waste collection and disposal.
Recipients are as follows:
• City of Fishers – $25,857
• City of Hobart – $30,000
• City of Jasper, Street Department – $100,000
• City of South Bend – $26,756
• Clark County Recycling District – $10,125
• Dearborn Solid Waste Management District – $17,139
• DePauw University – $22,174
• Indiana State Fair Commission – $100,000
• Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc. – $25,178
• Miami County Solid Waste Management District – $6,510
• Posey County Solid Waste Management District – $7,337
• reTHink Inc. – $12,747
• Southeastern Indiana Solid Waste District – $24,247
• Bartholomew Church and School – $6,578
• Town of Mulberry – $3,750
• Trustees of Indiana University – $3,117
• Washington County Solid Waste Management District – $33,753
• Wayne and Union Solid Waste Management District – $9,800
Community Recycling Grants are available to counties, municipalities, solid waste management districts, schools and nonprofit organizations located in Indiana.