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The Recycling and Solid Waste Assistance Grants in Mississippi provide funding for various programs and initiatives aimed at proper waste management and recycling. Grant funds are derived from fees on solid wastes and waste tires. Grants are available for local governments, waste authorities, and entities to support activities such as collection programs, public education, enforcement, and clean-up of illegal dumps.
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Recycling and Solid Waste Assistance GrantsMississippi Department of Environmental Quality
Recycling and Solid Waste Grants Programs • Local Governments Solid Waste Assistance Grants Program (SWAG) • Waste Tire Assistance Grants • Right Way to Throw Away Grants (HHW) • Recycling and Pollution Prevention Grants
Solid Waste Assistance Grants Program • Grant funds are derived from a portion of the $1.00/ton fee on solid wastes landfilled in the state. • State law divides the grant moneys into two subfunds: • Noncompetitive grant moneys that are allocated to county governments each year on state road formula • Competitive Grants that are available to counties, cities, waste authorities and multi-county entities
Solid Waste Assistance Grants • Clean up of existing and future illegal dumps on public and private properties; • Establishment of a collection program for white goods, recyclables, or other bulky materials; • Public education efforts related to proper management of solid wastes and recycling;
Solid Waste Assistance Grants (cont.) • Payment of up to 50% of a local solid waste enforcement officer’s salary; • Payment of up to 75% of the cost of conducting an HHW collection day; • Development of other solid waste management program activities associated with the prevention, enforcement, or abatement of unauthorized dumps.
Scrap Metals and WhitegoodsStorage Sites Space and Order Good Signage
City of Quitman Newspapers Curbside Truck Plastic bottles Magazines OCC
Waste Tire Assistance Grants • Waste Tire assistance grant funds are derived from portions of a $1.00 per tire fee and are currently allocated in the following manner: • 60% is set aside for grants to local county governments; • 15% is set aside for persons who will manufacture products from waste tires or that will conduct demonstration projects that will lead to the development of new products.
Local Government Waste Tire Grants • To set up and support local waste tire collection programs for small quantity generators; • For clean up of illegal waste tire dumps or scattered tires on the roadways; • For up to 50% of the salary of a solid waste enforcement officer; • For the purchase of waste tire products derived or manufactured from Mississippi tires.
City of Vicksburg/Warren County Waste Tire Recycling Collection Site
Three Rivers SWA Used Tire Collection Center at solid waste transfer site near Tupelo
Waste Tire Incentive Recycling And Demonstration Project Grants • Available to companies or persons or other entities who will manufacture products from waste tires. • Available to persons, companies, local governments or universities that will conduct demonstration projects with waste tires that will result in new products being developed from waste tires.
Poly-Vulc - Vicksburg Tire Granules
Poly-Vulc - Vicksburg Air Conditioning Pads
Waste Tire Abatement Program Funds are used to: • Clean up illegal tire dumps at sites or properties where the owner was dumped upon, • Clean up tires dumped prior to waste tire regulations and laws, or • Clean up tires when the owner or responsible party will not initiate cleanup as ordered by the MDEQ.
Right Way To Throw Away Grants • Grants awarded to county, municipality or multi-county agency • Funding for one day collection events for the collection of household hazardous wastes such as paints, solvents, used motor oil, automotive batteries, nickel cadmium batteries, fluorescent light bulbs and household chemicals.
Recycling and P2 Grants Who Can Apply? • Academic institutions * • Government agencies/institutions * • Non-profit recycling facilities • For-profit recycling facilities • Mandated by the State Legislature to have recycling programs
Recycling and P2 Grants Purpose of the Grants • Demonstration and pilot projects • Defray costs of basic and applied research and studies • Implementing recycling and P2 projects
Recycling and P2 Grants Grant Limitations • $125,000 budgeted each year • $20,000 max. per application • Projects must be sustainable without future grants • Grants targeted for equipment and education
MIDD West Industries Vicksburg Horizontal closed-end baler for plastics, paper and OCC
MIDD West Industries in Vicksburg Drop-off trailer for #1 and #2 plastic bottles
MIDD West Industries in Vicksburg Drop-off sites for newspapers, magazines and mixed paper
University of Southern Mississippi OCC, ONP, white paper, aluminum cans, and plastics USM has recycled over 3.2 million pounds since 1995.
Truck for OCC and paper collection University of Southern Mississippi
USM Collection Sites Collection containers ONP, plastics, aluminum cans white paper, OCC
1 of 2 vertical balers on-site at this facility University of Southern Mississippi
Mississippi State University Recycling Collection Van and Central Storage Site
Mississippi State University Central Collection Sites - ONP, white paper, magazines/glossy
Holmes Community College Vertical Baler for corrugated boxes Vertical Baler Bales of OCC
Co-Lin Community College Vertical baler and bales of OCC
South Panola School District Bales of OCC Baler for OCC OCC collection containers $32,070 in saving to school district over the last two years
Hinds Community College Drop-off sites for OCC
Hinds County Penal Farm Closed-end horizontal baler OCC, white paper
Hinds County Penal Farm Baled OCC, ONP, white paper Forklift
Greenville Recycling Center Compactor Trailer Bales of OCC
Sumrall RecyclingHattiesburg Drop cages for OCC
For more information contact: • For SWAG and Waste Tire Grants: • Luis Murillo at 601/961-5372 • Denise Wilson at 601/961-5543 • For Right Way to Throw Away Grants: • David Peacock at 601/961-5220 • For Pollution Prevention and Recycling Grants: • John David Burns at 601/961-5005 • Larry Estes at 601/961-5036