Nebraska DEQ Awards Recycling Grants

Earlier this week the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality announced the recipients of more than $2.4 million in grant money for waste reduction and recycling projects.

The grants are available through the state’s Waste Reduction and Recycling Incentive Grant Fund. Grants totaling over $1.5 million for projects related to tire recycling were previously announced last month.

The following companies or groups received grant money:

Bruckman Rubber Co., Hastings, $316,876, purchase and install equipment to produce "Weed Seal" product containing recycled crumb rubber.

Goodwill Industries of Greater Nebraska, Inc., Kearney, $12,454, forklift and vertical baler.

Grand Island Area Clean Community System, $80,000, household hazardous waste collections.

Joslyn Castle Institute for Sustainable Communities, Omaha, $80,000, deconstruction/eco store in Lincoln.

Keep Chadron Beautiful, $20,000, truck for collecting paper and cardboard; personnel expenses.

Keep Nebraska Beautiful, Lincoln, $34,135, mobile household hazardous waste trailer for Beatrice; $71,776, Nebraska Materials Exchange Program.

Keep North Platte-Lincoln County Beautiful, $18,000, household hazardous waste collections.

Lincoln Action Program, Inc., $22,500, funding for the Lincoln Food Bank.

Northeast Nebraska RC&D Council, Inc., Plainview, $9103, two electronics collections.

Salvation Army, Norfolk, $15,500, skid loader for cardboard recycling.

Stewart Trucking and Pallet, Inc., Lincoln, $80,000, mobile diesel-powered wood grinder/processor.

Cass County Department of Roads, $31,060, funds to construct a recycling center; $280,000, tub grinder for Plattsmouth and Cass County .

City of Chappell, $11,780, vertical baler for the city's recycling center.

City of Columbus, $98,750, front-end loader for the Columbus transfer station; $9000, funding for household hazardous waste collection event for Columbus and Platte county residents.

City of Fremont, Department of Utilities, $75,000, towable compost turner and tractor for yard waste and bio-solids composting.

City of Gibbon, $123,000, tractor for sludge recycling/composting project.

City of Grand Island, $75,000, cost to design a permanent household hazardous waste facility.

City of Lincoln, Public Works and Utilities, $10,990, purchase recycling containers for a joint project between the cities of Firth and Lincoln; $149,342, repair the asphalt surface at compost facility; $29,715, purchase a modular classroom building to be located at the Bluff Road landfill; $85,000, wheel loader for compost facility; $12,395, promote waste reduction, reuse and recycling in schools and newspaper; acquire billboards promoting the Lincoln Recycles education campaign.

City of Schuyler, $4950, funding for electronics waste collection.

City of Tekamah, $46,023, funding for a used truck, recycling trailer and two years of operating expenses for city curbside recycling program.

Lexington Area Solid Waste Agency, $47,440, household hazardous waste collections.

Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department, $63,000, seven household hazardous waste collections and two small business hazardous waste collections.

Red Willow County, McCook, $75,000, southwest Nebraska household hazardous waste program.

State of Nebraska, Dept. of Roads, $242,750, crumb rubber in rubber modified asphalt to overlay a 10.4 mile segment of N-121 in Knox and Pierce counties.

University of Nebraska, Biological Systems & Civil Engineering departments, Lincoln, $176,708, partnership with WasteCap of Nebraska to place pollution prevention interns in Nebraska businesses.

Village of Douglas, $4655, compartmentalized recycling trailer.

Village of Kenesaw, $2250, screen and grind grass pile, dispose of trash, give away compost.