Deadline: 20-Apr-22
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is pleased to announce the 2022 Recycling Grant Program.
EGLE will provide matching grants to support Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s climate priorities by supplementing efforts to increase the statewide recycling rate, ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion, and grow recycling markets and recycling supply chains through the NextCycle Michigan Initiative (NextCycle).
Categories
The NextCycle Michigan Recycling Grants have the following categories:
- Michigan Recycling Infrastructure Grants: These grants are designed to increase the statewide recycling rate, with the goal of achieving a 45 percent statewide recycling rate by 2025. Additionally, the Recycling Infrastructure Grants work to increase collection and processing capacity of recyclable materials or food waste and increase access and participation rates in recycling or food waste composting programs while promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion across Michigan, and they will support Governor Whitmer’s climate change priorities through measurable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
- Michigan Recycling Market Development Grants: These grants are designed to create new markets or expand existing markets and create supply chains for recycled materials, as well as stimulate demand for recycled materials and recycled content products and strong supply chains to feed that demand. In addition, these grants aim to assist businesses that manufacture, market, and use recycled-content products while building diversity, equity, and inclusion. These grants will also commercialize technologies to replace materials with recycled content; to improve the quality, increase the quantity, and grow demand for utilizing recycled materials in manufacturing or other uses; and facilitate research and development of new uses for recycled materials.
- Michigan Small Community Education Grants: These grants are designed to help small communities access education and outreach resources to improve local recycling programs, reduce contamination, and further educate residents. This grant program is a collaboration between EGLE and The Recycling Partnership, a nonprofit action agent transforming the U.S. residential recycling system for good.
Specific Targets
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Michigan Recycling Infrastructure Grants specific targets:
- Projects that increase collection and processing capacity of recyclable materials or food waste.
- Projects that increase access to recycling or food waste composting infrastructure.
- Projects that increase participation rates in recycling or food waste composting programs.
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Michigan Market Development Grants specific targets:
- Create new markets or expand existing markets and supply chains for recycled materials.
- Stimulate demand for recycled materials and recycled content products.
- Assist businesses that manufacture, market, and use recycled-content products to ensure pool of applications are diverse and inclusive and provide opportunities for both public and private sectors.
- Commercialize technologies to replace materials with recycled content, to improve the quality, increase the quantity, and grow demand for utilizing recycled materials in manufacturing or other uses.
- Research and development of new uses for recycled materials.
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Michigan Small Community Education Grants specific targets:
- Provide access to recycling education resources for small communities (fewer than 10,000 households).
Funding Information
A total of $15,000,000.00 is available for NextCycle Recycling Grant projects in FY 2022.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants for Michigan Recycling Infrastructure Grants are non-profit organizations, tribal governments, school districts, universities/colleges, local health departments, regional planning agencies, cities, villages, townships, charter townships, counties, municipal solid waste authorities, and resource recovery authorities located in Michigan.
- Eligible applicants for Michigan Recycling Market Development Grants are businesses, non-profit organizations, tribal governments, school districts, universities/colleges, local health departments, regional planning agencies, cities, villages, townships, charter townships, counties, municipal solid waste authorities, and resource recovery authorities located in Michigan.
- Eligible applicants for Michigan Small Community Education Grants are nonprofit organizations, tribal governments, regional planning agencies, cities, villages, townships, charter townships, counties, municipal solid waste authorities, or a resource recovery authorities located in Michigan serving fewer than 10,000 households with a curbside and/or drop-off recycling program.
- Preference will be given to communities that face historic environmental or socioeconomic disparities.
- Eligible applicants must be able to confirm the endpoint of materials collected or processed using items purchased with grant dollars. It is expected that grant-funded items will be deployed and utilized in a material management system where collected materials are directed to market for manufacture of new products and are not disposed.
Deadlines
- Michigan Recycling Infrastructure Grants: April 20, 2022
- Michigan Market Development Grants: June 30, 2022
- Michigan Small Community EducationGrants: Ongoing
For more information, visit EGLE.
For more information, visit https://www.michigan.gov/egle/0,9429,7-135-70153_69695_76895—,00.html