The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced that Armstrong County will receive a $52,400 grant to help fund its municipal recycling operation.
The grant was awarded under Pennsylvania’s County Planning Grant Program, which is Section 901 of the Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction Act of 1988, commonly called Act 101. The $52,400 grant will be used to reimburse Armstrong County for up to 80 percent of the costs to revise its solid waste management plan.
The Act 101 grants support the infrastructure of Pennsylvania’s $23 billion recycling industry, which includes $2.9 billion in wages paid to 81,322 people employed in 3,247 recycling and reuse industries. The annual sales receipts of these establishments totaled $18.4 billion last year. The indirect benefits totaled $1.8 billion and tax receipts were estimated at $305 million annually.