Indiana Agency Awards Grant Money to Communities

Thirteen Indiana communities will receive their share of $317,473 in recycling grants that the Indiana Department of Environmental Management announced. Grant money will be used for equipment, education materials and promotional materials to advance community recycling programs.

Thomas Easterly, IDEM commissioner, said, “I am pleased to announce the grant awards for recycling. These communities have taken the initiative to establish recycling programs, which have diverted usable materials from going to landfills and put money back into the economy. Each community can make a tremendous difference. For example, in 2004, Indiana state government employees in Marion County recycled over 1,101 tons of materials. The state realized $34,450 in the sale of these materials for recycling and saved an estimated $42,250 in trash-hauling fees. If the government center can realize this kind of impact, just imagine the impact that our towns and cities can make.”

The recycling grant recipients are:

Municipalities:

• City of Anderson (Madison County): $20,275 to buy a bagger machine and education/promotion costs

• City of Crown Point (Lake County): $25,000 to buy a knuckle boom loader • Town of Dyer (Lake County): $25,000 to buy a truck

• City of Greendale (Dearborn County): $10,500 to buy recycling containers

• City of Hammond (Lake County): $5,000 for printing costs and to buy education/promotional material

• City of Lafayette (Tippecanoe County): $50,000 to buy a recycling truck

• City of Seymour (Jackson County): $50,000 to buy a horizontal baler

• City of Winchester (Randolph County): $48,292 to buy a grinder

• Town of Schererville (Lake County): $34,000 to buy a leaf collector and a leaf vacuum/street sweeper

• Jasper County: $24,975 to buy two vertical balers, six self-tipping hoppers, and a forklift

Solid Waste Management Districts (SWMDs):

• Pike County SWMD: $15,000 to buy a truck and for education/promotion costs

• Randolph County SWMD: $8,431 to buy a used oil recycling collection container, a roll-off container, scale, pallet truck, hand truck, and drum grabber

Not-for-profits:

• Marion High School (Grant County): $1,000 to buy recycling containers, scale, supplies, and for education/promotion costs