<b>RI Cities Receive Recycling Grants</b>

Eight Rhode Island communities will receive a total of $85,480 in grants from Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corp. to help the cities and towns improve their recycling performance.

This is the second year Resource Recovery has awarded grants through the program.

The communities, the grant amounts and their purposes are:

Barrington, $7,500, for a brochure explaining the town's maximum recycling program.

Charlestown, $6,000, to purchase a covered container for its transfer station to keep paper recyclables dry.

Cranston, $10,000, for a twice-yearly newsletter about its recycling program.

Lincoln, $7,000, to produce educational materials for the whole town as well as age-appropriate materials for students. The town also will use the money to buy recycling containers for use at schools.

North Smithfield, $4,980, to purchase recycling containers to collect aluminum cans and plastic soda bottles at town parks.

Warwick, $15,000, to create a Web site that will contain educational material about the town's recycling and sanitation program.

West Warwick, $20,000, to hire a recycling coordinator at the Department of Public Works.

Westerly, $15,000, for radio and print advertising to encourage recycling. The town shares its recycling program with Hopkinton.