West Virginia DEP Approves Recycling Grants

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has announced that 24 applicants have been approved for grants from the DEP’s Covered Electronic Devices (CED) Recycling Grant Program. A total of more than $233,000 will be distributed to the recipients. Money will be used to increase the collection of electronic scrap by the applicant communities.

The CED program, established in 2008 under the DEP’s Rehabilitation Environmental Action Plan, requires that electronics manufacturers register their brands with the state. The program allows counties and municipalities to apply for CED grants to conduct electronic collection events as well as supports ongoing collection programs.

The goals of the program are to establish a registration process for manufacturers of covered electronic devices, to determine if manufacturers have adopted or implemented a free take-back/recycling program for their products and award recycling grants to counties and municipalities for recycling or other programs that divert covered electronic devices from the waste stream.

Grant recipients are:

• Barbour County Solid Waste Authority, $8,000 to fund wages, advertising, gaylord boxes, fuel for collection and electronic recycling processing for a CED collection event and drop-off program;

• Berkeley County Solid Waste Authority, $14,620 to fund contracted transportation and recycling services, shrink wrap, information signage and posts for the ongoing CED collection program, with the option to rebudget to a CED collection event if needed;

• Brooke County Solid Waste Authority, $10,500 to fund recycling contractual services and advertising for a CED collection event;

• Cabell County Solid Waste Authority, $8,300 to purchase a stretch wrap machine, approach ramp for stretch wrap machine and fund shipping costs and supplies for its CED collection program;

• Clay County Commission, $6,250 to fund contractual recycling services, advertising and management flow control for a CED collection event;

• Greenbrier County Solid Waste Authority, $8,200 to fund collection, processing and packing costs, shipping supplies and advertising for its ongoing CED collection program;

• Hancock County Solid Waste Authority, $20,000 to purchase pallets, shrink wrap, gaylord boxes and a truck and to fund transportation and disposal for its CED collection;

• Harrison County Solid Waste Authority, $10,500 to fund recycling and transportation fees and advertising for a CED collection event;

• Kanawha County Solid Waste Authority, $13,300 to fund labor, advertising, fuel, TV disposal, signage, supplies, event truck usage and recycling processing for its CED collection program and county cleanup event;

• The city of Kingwood, $7,500 to fund recycling contract services and advertising for a CED collection event;

• Lincoln County Solid Waste Authority, $10,500 to fund recycling and transportation costs and advertising for a CED collection event;

• McDowell County Solid Waste Authority, $9,000 to fund disposal, rental, labor and advertising for a CED collection event;

• Mercer County Solid Waste Authority, $10,200 to fund the electronic recycling cost and advertising for a CED collection event;

• Morgan County Solid Waste Authority, $5,900 to fund contractual electronic recycling processing, advertising and site management for a CED collection event;

• Ohio County Solid Waste Authority, $7,000 to fund an electronics recycling contractor and advertising for a CED collection eventl;

• Pleasants County Solid Waste Authority, $10,500 to fund the recycling and transportation costs and advertising for a CED collection event;

• Pocahontas County Solid Waste Authority, $9,000 to fund an electronics recycling contractor and advertising for a CED collection event and to purchase a CED storage unit;

• Putnam County Solid Waste Authority, $7,500 to fund an electronics recycling contractor, advertising and contract labor for a CED collection event;

• Randolph County Solid Waste Authority, $6,605 to fund box trailer rental, forklift rental, disposal fees, labor, advertising, event signage and packing material for a CED collection event;

• Region VIII Solid Waste Authority, $20,000, to fund an electronics recycling contractor and CED RFP development and management for ongoing CED collection program;

• Tucker County Solid Waste Authority, $19,700 to purchase a forklift and pallet jack and fund box trailer rental, CED recycling fees, TV recycling fees and advertising for its CED collection program;

• Upshur County Solid Waste Authority, $1,400 to fund electronic recycling fees and advertising for a CED collection event;

• Wayne County Solid Waste Authority, $5,400 to fund an electronics recycling contractor and advertising for a CED collection event; and

• Wood County Solid Waste Authority, $3,700 to fund advertising, signs and banners for a CED collection event.