West Virginia agency awards grants to boost electronics recycling efforts

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has approved grants to 14 applicants through its Covered Electronic Devices (CED) Recycling Grant Program. A total of $108,341 was awarded.

Established in 2008 under the West Virginia DEP’s Rehabilitation Environmental Action Plan (REAP), the CED program requires that manufacturers register their brands with the state. The fees collected from the program allow counties and municipalities to apply for CED grants to conduct electronic collection events and support 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 to award recycling grants to counties and municipalities for recycling or other programs that divert covered electronic devices from the waste stream.

Recipients of the grants are:

• Berkeley County Solid Waste Authority, $9,652, which will fund labor and fuel expenses for the ongoing county-wide recycling program;
• Braxton County Solid Waste Authority, $8,000 to fund labor expenses, fuel for trucks and forklift and the CED recycling fees for its ongoing countywide program;
• Brooke County Solid Waste Authority, $10,000 to fund labor wages, contracted recycling services, advertising and supplies for a collection event for the ongoing countywide program; 
• Cabell County Solid Waste Authority, $3,678, which will be used to fund a CED recycling public education campaign for the countywide program;
• Town of Fayetteville, $8,000. Money will be used to fund contracted recycling services and advertising for a CED collection event;
• Jackson County Solid Waste Authority, $20,000, to fund roof construction for its CED collection program;
• Kanawha County Commission: $10,000 to fund CED collection events for the county-wide program.
• city of Kingwood, $8,000, to fund vendor and advertising for the citywide program;
• Pleasants County Solid Waste Authority, $7,000 to fund CED recycling and transportation fees for the ongoing countywide program;
• Pocahontas County Solid Waste Authority, $4,300 to fund a steel storage container, electronics shipping supplies, electronics recycling and transportation expenses for the countywide program;
• Putnam County Solid Waste Authority, $8,000 to fund fork truck rental and contracted CED recycling services for the ongoing countywide program;
• Ritchie County Solid Waste Authority, $7,000, to fund CED recycling fees, workers, legal ads and advertising for the ongoing countywide program;
• Summers County Solid Waste Authority, $2,210, to fund personnel, forklift and operator, Gaylord boxes, freight and newspaper advertising for the countywide CED collection program; and
• Wayne County Solid Waste Authority, $2,500, to fund CED recycling fees for the ongoing countywide program.

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