Cities are eligible to apply for Commonwealth of Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet (EEC) Division of Waste Management-Kentucky Pride Fund grants to Kentucky local and state government agencies, school districts, and schools for programs and activities that help to reduce waste and encourage recycling.
Funding is intended to promote the development of infrastructure for composting and recycling programs, reduce solid waste disposal, and improve the management of household hazardous waste.
Composting Grant: To assist eligible applicants in their efforts to achieve a successful program to divert materials from being landfilled and direct them to composting, reusing, or other recycling options. Eligible expenditures include a variety
- 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
Household Hazardous Waste Management Grant: To leverage limited funds into an efficient and cost-effective one-day management event collecting Household Hazardous Waste and promoting a Household Hazardous Waste Public education program.
Recycling Grant: To leverage limited funds into efficient and cost-effective projects that will help Kentuckians develop an integrated recycling infrastructure and recycling public education programs. Eligible expenditures include:
- Vertical and horizontal balers producing bales of 60” in length (minimum) weighing at least 800 lbs. of recyclable materials, i.e., cardboard (OCC).
- Conveyors
- Forklifts – pneumatic tires only
- Bucket loaders, skid steer loaders
- Scales
- Manual pallet jacks
- Portable dock plates and forklift ramps
- Collection “drop-off” trailers
- Recycling dumpsters (i.e. “coffin” roll-off containers)
- Classroom recycling containers in schools, up to 25% of grant request
- Used Gaylord-type boxes
- Glass pulverizers
- Aluminum can flattener-blowers, and densifiers
- Sorting conveyors
- Stackable concrete barrier blocks for constructing storage bunkers
- Community recycling bins in public locations or residences
- Other equipment that generates a material with positive market value will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis
- 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 recycling participation and regular reporting in local/regional media, signs, displays, and banners for recycling facilities, and recycling educational materials for school programs
- Personnel to teach school recycling programs
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