The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has awarded the Summit/Akron Solid Waste Management Authority and its business partner, Janorpot, LLC, with a grant of $78,500. The recycling market development grant will be used to expand the company’s plastics recycling efforts.
The company will match the grant money. The combined funds will be used to install plastics extrusion and material feed systems at the company’s facility in Mogadore, Ohio. The system will allow Janorport to use 1,250 tons of recycled polypropylene plastic resin each year to make greenhouse trays and plant containers.
"These grants help establish working partnerships between state and local governments and businesses," said Sam Speck, ODNR director. "In turn, the partnerships help Ohio's economy by creating jobs and long-term markets for many of the materials collected by the state's local recycling programs."
The Akron grant was among $378,500 awarded statewide as part of the Recycling Market Development Grant program of ODNR's Division of Recycling & Litter Prevention.
Additional ODNR grants went to the Coshocton County Recycling & Litter Prevention Program and Krasco, Inc.; a consumer of scrap plastics; Wyandot County Solid Waste Management District and Dlubak Glass Company, Inc.; a glass recycling company; Holmes County Solid Waste Management District and Unique Plastics, Ltd; a plastics recycler; and the City of Dayton and Rumpke Consolidated Companies, Inc., a waste management and recycling company.