Kentucky Awards $3.5 Million in Grant Money to Boost Recycling

Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear has announced the recipients of 38 recycling and 10 household hazardous waste grants totaling over $3.5 million to expand recycling in Kentucky, reduce the amount of solid waste going into landfills, and sustain the environmental management of hazardous waste from homes, including electronic scrap and mercury.

The Kentucky Pride Fund, administered by the Energy and Environment Cabinet’s Division of Waste Management, is awarding 48 grants totaling $3,538,842. The money for the grants is derived from the $1.75 collected for each ton of municipal solid waste disposed of in the state’s landfills.

“Recycling and managing household hazardous waste play a large part in Kentucky’s efforts to go green and conserve energy statewide,” says Gov. Beshear in a release. “The hazardous waste grants allow homeowners to safely dispose of chemicals and other materials that pose a threat to human health and the environment.”

The grants require a 25 percent local match in the form of cash or “in-kind” personnel, educational activities and materials and advertising to promote the program from the cities or counties receiving the awards.

Grant recipients, along with the grant amounts, are:

Adair County Fiscal Court - $38,949

Allen County Fiscal Court - $55,850

Ballard County Fiscal Court - $93,419

Barbourville (Knox County) - $65,699

Bath County Fiscal Court - $2,541

Big Sandy Regional Recycling Program - $128,044

Bell County Garbage (109) District - $79,852

Breathitt County Fiscal Court/Wolfe County Fiscal Court - $266,935

Danville-Boyle County Recycle Center - $78,000

Daviess County Board of Education - $66,125

Daviess County Fiscal Court - $23,396

Eastern Kentucky University - $39,100

Estill County Fiscal Court - $53,166

Flemingsburg (Fleming County) - $27,785

Garrard/Lincoln Solid Waste Management Area - $169,167

Hardin County Fiscal Court - $19,718

Hopkinsville-Christian County Recycling Program - $26,000

Jessamine County Fiscal Court - $136,237

LaRue County Fiscal Court - $32,400

London (Laurel County) - $187,474

Madisonville (Hopkins County) - $62,218

Lyon County Fiscal Court - $40,107

Mason County Fiscal Court - $173,000

McCracken County Fiscal Court - $86,295

Meade County Fiscal Court - $481,081

Mercer County Fiscal Court - $4,500

Morehead-Rowan County Fiscal Court-Morehead State University - $21,505

Northern Kentucky Solid Waste Management Area - $15,937

Owen County Fiscal Court - $109,665

Pulaski County Fiscal Court - $223,168

Regional Recycling Center (Washington, Marion and Nelson counties, city of Lebanon) -$47,936

Robertson County Fiscal Court - $24,250

Russell County Fiscal Court - $89,628

Taylor County Fiscal Court - $26,100

Tri-County Recycling Alliance Inc. - $129,769

Wayne County Fiscal Court - $52,157

Winchester Municipal Utilities Commission - $58,990

Woodford County Fiscal Court - $124,061

Recipients of the Hazardous Waste Grants are the following:

Grant County Solid Waste Board - $16,560

Hardin County Fiscal Court - $20,600

Jessamine County Fiscal Court - $20,180

Madison County Fiscal Court - $5,000

Nelson County Fiscal Court - $19,450

Northern Kentucky Solid Waste Management Area - $22,947

Oldham County Fiscal Court - $13,981

Paducah (McCracken County) - $27,000

Rowan County Fiscal Court - $10,600

Tri-County Recycling Alliance - $22,300