The Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE), the industry-led effort to reduce the flow of waste carpet to landfills in the United States, has announced its second grant cycle.
CARE is accepting grant proposals Feb. 2 through March 15 for programs that provide for the recycling or reuse of post-consumer carpet or increase the demand for products made from post-consumer carpet.
Individual grants up to $50,000 will be available to private sector applicants in each of three categories: Intermediate Processing and End-Use, Enhancement of the Collection Infrastructure, and Research and Development of Markets.
Proposals will be evaluated based on waste stream impact, probability of program success, planning/cost effectiveness, need, technology transfer ( the dissemination of information regarding project methodology and results) and ourcing and markets (the source of waste carpet and its destination markets).
The CARE Grants Committee will consider all applications. The decision to award each grant will be consistent with CARE's objective to divert carpet from landfill. Grant awards will be announced at CARE's annual meeting on April 29-30, 2004, in Pensacola, Fla.
Additional inforrmation and the RFP materials are available on-line at www.carpetrecovery.org/grants/index.asp.
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