DEQ awards $2.9 million in waste reduction and recycling grants

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By The Lincoln Journal Star

The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality has awarded about $2.9 million in grants for waste reduction and recycling projects.

The grants are available through the state’s Waste Reduction and Recycling Incentive Grant Fund. Money is generated by  landfill fees, an annual retail business sales fee, and a fee assessed on the sale of new tires.

Tire fee grants totaling more than $2.5 million for projects related to tire recycling were announced in April.

Southeast Nebraska grant recipients include:

* The City of Lincoln, $21,727 to expand the city's public recycling program at all city golf courses, four swimming pools, six recreation centers, and the Pioneers Park Nature Center.

* Community CROPS (Lincoln), $17,271, food composting project.

* Downtown Lincoln Foundation, $43,366, for 60 recycling containers for downtown area and an electric vehicle to pick up bagged recyclables.

* Lincoln Journal Star Recycling, $30,780 for a truck to collect recyclables in Seward, Milford and Waverly; and $29,450 for a truck to collect recyclables in Lincoln.

* Lincoln Public Schools Foundation, $9,374 for recycling containers to be used at Seacrest and Beechner Fields.

* Snyder Industries Inc., Lincoln, $175,822, for silos to store plastic regrind, which will then be reused on site or shipped to other Snyder plants.

* TechWare Recycling Inc., Lincoln, $8,625 for a hard disk crusher for security destruction from computers.

* Beatrice Area Solid Waste Agency, $112,732; permanent facility includes a small unit to store hazardous waste.

* Beatrice State Developmental Center, $5,700, waste oil burner.

* City of Beatrice, $65,200, loader for recycling raw sludge into compost.

* City of Fremont, $9,000, household hazardous waste collection event for Fremont, Dodge County, Arlington and Inglewood.

* City of Lincoln, $24,163, public education campaign to promote recycling, and $21,727 for recycling containers.

* City of Seward, $33,000, brush chipper.

* Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department, $53,256, eight household hazardous waste collection events; also $37,000 for educational and technical program regarding the reduction of toxic and hazardous waste.

n University of Nebraska-Lincoln, $43,901, recycling containers in the campus recreation areas; $54,148 to publish case studies of waste reduction and recycling in Nebraska businesses; and $5,996 for collection recycling bins and other recycling collection equipment.