New York State’s Governor George Pataki announced more than $5.9 million in funding that will be issued to 30 cities within the state to assist in local recycling efforts. The grant money is being provided through the 1996 Clean Water/Clean Air Bond Act.
Under the Clean Water/Clean Air Bond Act, $50 million has been authorized for grants for municipal recycling projects. The grants will pay 50 percent of the eligible municipal recycling cost, up to $2 million.
The recycling grants announced have been awarded to the following projects, which are subject to final eligibility review and approval:
$78,648 to the Town of Friendship to purchase a new recycling truck and a used truck with a trailer.
$531,500 to the Town of Orchard Park to develop property as a yard waste composting facility.
$349,931 to the Town of Orchard Park to purchase yard waste processing equipment, including a tub grinder, brush chipper, window turner and wheel loader, to be used at the town's yard waste composting facility.
$118,121 to the Town of Orchard Park to purchase yard waste collection equipment, including dump trucks, a leaf vacuum, leaf blower and wheel loader.
$222,845 to the Town of Amherst to help build a process control/administration building at the town's compost facility.
$28,390 to the Town of West Seneca to purchase a brush chipper and shredder to process tree and yard waste.
$238,462 to the Town of Greece to purchase a tub grinder.
$400,000 to the City of Auburn for construction of a materials recovery facility at the city landfill.
$273,881 to Fulton County to purchase three recycling trucks, a roll-off truck, roll-off containers, a tractor trailer and a used tub grinder; the county also will install a tin conveyor and construct an addition at its recycling facility, expanding storage capacity.
$65,156 to the Village of Waterville for the installation of a shredder screening plant, aeration blower system, portable static pile compost control system and pole barn, and modifications to existing facilities at the village wastewater treatment facilities, which composts biosolids and wood chips for distribution to residents, contractors, landscapers and greenhouses;
$40,306 to the Town of Floyd to purchase two roll-off containers to handle the increased volume of recyclable materials collected at the local recycling center, and a roll-off transport truck to haul the containers to the regional transfer station;
$25,646 to the Town of Trenton for the purchase of 10 roll-off containers to collect recyclable materials; the town also purchased a heavy-duty wood chipper to process green waste, with the wood chips being used for municipal landscaping purposes.
$43,490 for the City of Canandaigua to purchase a compartmentalized truck.
$246,475 to the City of Albany to purchase two transfer trailers; two cab road tractors to pull the transfer trailers; a high-lift rubber tire loader; and a roll-off truck for the collection of white goods, mulch and compost;
$15,350 to the Town of Rensseleaerville for the purchase of one cable lift truck; three closed containers; and one open top container for the collection of scrap metal;
$47,500 to the Village of Castleton to purchase a recycling truck to replace existing equipment.
$47,005 to Schoharie County to purchase 29 covered roll-off containers, and the purchase of 10 additional containers for the collections of scrap metal.
$46,730 to Washington County to purchase four loaders to be used at the county's recycling stations.
$38,300 to Washington County to purchase 10 roll-off containers to collect and transport recyclables and yard waste from county recycling stations .
$18,423 to Washington County to purchase a box truck with a lift gate.
$74,600 to the Town of Lake George to purchase a recycling truck with side dumping bins for the curbside collection of recyclables.
Delaware, Dutchess, Sullivan and Westchester Counties and Long Island
$2 million to Delaware County to assist in the construction of a co-composting facility to process municipal solid waste, biosolids and whey. The facility will be able to process 100 tons of waste per day.
$81,900 to the Town of Wappinger for construction of a new transfer facility with expanded recycling capability. .
$87,341 to the Town of Poughkeepsie for the purchase of three leaf loaders, three recycling vehicles, and six custom truck bodies.
$346,500 to Sullivan County to assist in the construction of a materials recovery facility, containing recycling equipment that includes a magnetic separator, double-ram baler, baler feed conveyors and a sorting line conveyor;
$264,000 to the City of New Rochelle for the purchase of four packer type trucks to collect and haul yard waste, pulp and commingled recyclables.
$136,100 to the Village of Port Chester for the purchase of a dual-chamber packer truck to facilitate curbside collection of recyclables. The Village will also purchase a truck with a roll-off hoist to move containers between the loading stations and the county pick-up area.
$58,909 to the Town of Hempstead for the purchase of approximately 4,000 residential curbside bins and one compartmentalized recycling truck.
$2,800 to the Village of Malverne to purchase a wood chipper.
$11,475 to the Village of Northport to purchase a vacuum leaf loader. The town will purchase 1,000 curbside recycling containers for distribution to residents in order to facilitate the collection of commingled recyclables.