The 2024-2025 Kentucky Pride Fund Composting Grant is to assist eligible applicants in their efforts to achieve a successful program to divert materials from being landfilled and direct them to composting, reuse or other recycling options.
Donor Name: Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet
State: Kentucky
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/01/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Recycling and Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Management Grants Program was established in 2006 by Senate Bill 50, effective July 12, 2006, and incorporated as a part of the Kentucky pride fund. KRS 224.43-505(2) (c) specifies the establishment of recycling and Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) management grant programs.
Priority will be given to regional recycling projects and regional household hazardous waste management programs with state approved interlocal cooperative agreements.
Funding Information
$50,000 is available.
Eligible Expenditures
- Conveyors
- Forklifts
- Bucket loaders, skid steer loaders
- Scales
- Stackable Concrete barrier blocks
- Windrow Compost Turners
- Composting Bins and Tumblers
- Compost Shredder/Grinder
- Electric utility installation/connections [not applicable for property rented/leased from a private entity] necessary for operating recycling processing equipment (i.e. 3 phase 220/460 volt power for balers, densifiers, conveyors, etc.).
- Advertising for composting participation and regular reporting in local/regional media, signs, displays and banners for recycling facilities and recycling educational materials for school programs.
Eligibility Criteria
Any county, waste management district, city, urban-county government, or other political subdivision of the state or any combination of the above, including school districts, shall be eligible to apply.
For more information, visit KEEC.
