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EPA-I-OLEM-ORCR-23-02: Consumer Recycling Education and Outreach (REO) Grant Program

Closed Closed February 15, 2023 Opportunity EPA-I-OLEM-ORCR-23-02 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. Who won this program's grants before is below, and similar open grants are at the end of the page. It is in our archive of Environmental Protection Agency notices from 2022.

• Award ceiling$2.0 million
• Award floor$250,000
• Total funding$30.0 million
• Expected awards25
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

See Section III of funding opportunity announcement for eligibility information.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Reduce, Reuse, Recycling Education and Outreach Grants awards averaged $2.2 million; this notice allows up to $2.0 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (71% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The EPA is seeking applications proposing projects that inform the public about new or existing residential or community recycling programs; provide information about the recycled materials that are accepted as part of a residential or community recycling program that provides for the separate collection of residential solid waste from recycled material; and increases collection rates and decreases contamination in residential and community recycling programs. Projects will improve consumer recycling education with the goal of achieving separate collection of recycled material across the nation, maximizing the efficient reuse of materials, and identifying strategies that otherwise result in an increase in volume of recyclable materials. The EPA also recognizes and encourages applications that demonstrate evidence-based messaging and strategies associated with effective communication campaigns designed to increase prevention, reuse, repair, remanufacture, recycling, anaerobic digestion, and composting in communities and/or decrease contamination in the recycling stream. This approach to community-informed messaging goes beyond education only by emphasizing researching the audience, building trust, and reducing audience barriers while emphasizing benefits for desired action. In addition, the EPA is seeking applications for recycling education and outreach projects that address environmental justice concerns and focus predominantly on addressing the disproportionate and adverse human health, environmental, climate-related and other cumulative impacts, as well as the accompanying economic challenges of such impacts, resulting from industrial, governmental, commercial and/or other actions that have affected and/or currently affect people/communities of color, low income, tribal, and indigenous populations, and if applicable, other vulnerable populations, such as the elderly, children, and those with pre-existing medical conditions.

Category: Environment, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).

Applying now

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