Ten colleges and universities in California will receive funding from the California Resource Recovery Association (CRRA), Sacramento. The ten colleges have been awarded a total of $75,000 by the CRRA, which bills itself as the largest and oldest state recycling organization in the nation
The funding will help the universities implement recycling 
collection and promotion programs targeting beverage containers. The grant program is a partnership between CRRA and the California Department of Conservation (DOC), Division of Recycling.
The schools receiving grants include Shasta College, UC Riverside, Santa Monica College, CSU-Chico, UC Davis, California Lutheran University, UC Santa Cruz, CSU-San Bernardino and CSU-Long Beach. The grants are intended to help schools develop and pay for programs that integrate promotional materials, including those produced under the Department of Conservation’s “Recycling: Its Good For The Bottle, Its Good For The Can” campaign.
“CRRA and the Department of Conservation have long had a constructive working relationship. This project is another example of how together we are providing the tools to spur local recycling efforts”, says John Davis, CRRA President.
“Large institutions such as colleges and universities generate a significant amount of the solid waste in California,” says Alec Cooley, Chair of the California Collegiate Recycling Council, the CRRA technical council that organized and is managing the grant program. “This partnership with the DOC is an exciting opportunity to help these schools develop the model programs that other institutions statewide can follow.”
The grant funds will be used to pay for collection containers and promotional materials. UC Santa Cruz, for example, plans to purchase “deskside” recycling bins and provide waste reduction guides for each of the dorm rooms at its Merrill College. Santa Monica College will make reusable multilingual banners and signs to place alongside new “recycling centers” found at different parts of campus. UC Davis will target the Coffee House, a central eatery on campus, by installing three-chamber “Recycled Recyclers” receptacles that include special promotional display boards on top.