The Division of Environmental Assistance and Customer Service (DEACS) administers the Community Waste Reduction and Recycling (CWRAR) grant program through the Solid Waste Management Outreach Program.
Donor Name: N.C. Division of Environmental Assistance and Customer Service (DEACS)
State: North Carolina
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/15/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The purpose of this grant program is to assist local governments with the implementation, expansion, and improvement of waste reduction and recycling programs in North Carolina.
What Types of Projects are Eligible?
DEACS seeks viable, well-planned proposals from local governments in North Carolina for projects that will initiate, expand, or improve waste reduction and recycling programs. Grant money may be used to help purchase physical infrastructure or equipment to divert materials from the waste stream, or to purchase, print and distribute educational materials to inform the public about waste reduction and/or recycling programs.
Examples of grant projects include but are not limited to:
- Implement new or expand existing curbside recycling programs.
- Transition a curbside recycling program from collection using bins or blue bags to a cart-based collection system.
- Implement or improve staffed drop-off recycling infrastructure to expand access to recycling or offer diversion programs for new material streams.
- Print and distribute educational materials to increase recycling participation and/or reduce contamination in the recycling stream and improve material quality. Education may include things like signage, postcards, magnets, oops tags, decals, bill inserts, brochures, etc. Grant funds may be used to develop new educational materials, update existing education to improve messaging, or update accepted material lists (e.g., adding new recyclable materials like paper cups, cartons, or polypropylene containers).
- Implement or expand household hazardous waste collection programs.
- Consolidate recyclables from more than one local government to provide more efficient transport to a material recovery facility (MRF).
Funding Information
- Applicants may request any amount of grant funding up to a maximum of $50,000.
- CWRAR grants require a cash match of at least 20 percent of the requested grant funding. For example, a grantee requesting a $20,000 grant must match at least $4,000 with local funds for a total project cost of $24,000. Distributions from the $2 per ton Solid Waste Disposal Tax may be used to cover cash match requirements. In-kind contributions will not be accepted in lieu of cash match.
Grant Period
July 1, 2024 and ending June 30, 2025.
Eligible and Ineligible Expenses
- Examples of approved uses of CWRAR grant funds include site development costs, construction of facilities to handle recyclable materials, equipment or vehicle purchases, equipment installation costs, and educational materials such as signs, mailers, handouts or brochures.
- Grant funds may not be used for employee salaries, land acquisition costs, administrative expenses such as overhead, utility costs, studies or work performed by consultants, contracted collection costs, and / or payment for other contracted recycling services such as payment to a vendor for operating a household hazardous waste collection event.
Eligibility Criteria
- Local governments, defined as counties, municipalities, councils of governments and solid waste authorities in North Carolina, are eligible to apply for funding from the CWRAR grant program.
- Federal and state agencies, universities and colleges, and non-profit organizations are not eligible for funding through this grant program.
For more information, visit NCDEACS.