This week, the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) announced the municipalities awarded grant by the DEQ to boost their recycling education and infrastructure projects.  The $500,000 in grants support Governor Rick Snyder’s 2014 Residential Recycling Plan of Action by increasing access to recycling, improving recycling processing capacity, and promoting recycling education in Michigan.  Funding for the grant was made available through a State of Michigan general fun appropriation in the 2017 Fiscal Year.

Recycling education will be increased through projects including billboards, public service announcement messaging, internet and social media campaigns, printed outreach materials, direct education events, and school programs.

• Isabella County Materials Recovery Facility – $3,675
• Berrien County Parks Department – $15,792.75
• City of East Lansing – $4,000
• Benzie County Solid Waste Department – $10,000
• City of Grand Rapids – $7,500
• City of Madison Heights – $2,430
• City of Kalamazoo – $7,500
• Mid-Michigan Waste Authority – $3,105
• Green Living Science – $9,590
• Tuscola and Sanilac Counties Recycling – $18,381
• City of Brighton $2,688.03
• Kalamazoo Nature Center – $4,081.50
• Hemlock Public School District – $6,375

Access to recycling and processing capacity will be increased though the funding of infrastructure projects such as the purchase of recycling processing equipment, site expansions and improvements, and the development of new recycling collection sites.

• Northeast Michigan Council of Governments for Alpena Recycling Board – $50,000
• City of Detroit – $34,132.72
• Village of Bingham Farms – $15,750
• Canton Township – $50,000
• Charter Township of Shelby – $5,328
• City of Brighton – $5,107.50
• City of East Lansing – $14,760
• City of Grand Haven – $18,000
• City of Grosse Pointe Farms – $28,350
• Hemlock Public School District – $18,405
• City of Houghton – $7,904
• Jefferson Township – $19,020.75
• Kalkaska County – $30,273.75
• Village of Newberry – $48,000
• Thumb Industries, Inc. – $29,850
• Tuscola County – $30,000

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