West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has announced plans to award $1.5 million in recycling assistance grant money to more than two dozen governments, educational institutions and businesses throughout the state. According to a news release posted on the governor’s website, the grants have been designed to provide funding for recipients to start, expand or upgrade a variety of recycling programs.
“If you just go outside and look, we have the most pristine air, it's the most beautiful place anywhere,” Gov. Justice says. “With these grants, you continue to clean West Virginia up more and more and more.”
The following groups received grant money:
• Braxton County Solid Waste Authority: $46,400 to assist with personnel, vehicle and equipment expenses, operational costs, educational materials and training to support the county’s recycling program.
• Metal Center Recycling (Cabell County): $28,721.33 to assist with equipment accessories to improve processing for the metal recycling operation.
• Calhoun County Solid Waste Authority: $33,678 to assist with personnel, equipment expenses and operational costs to support the county’s 24-year-old recycling program.
• City of Montgomery: $60,860 to assist with a recycling vehicle, equipment expenses, educational materials, personnel and transportation costs for the expansion of the city’s recycling program.
• Hancock County Solid Waste Authority: $53,460 to assist with personnel, recycling fees, operational and equipment expenses for the expansion of the county’s recycling program.
• Infinite Electronics Recycling LLC: $25,000 to assist with personnel costs for the electronics recycling operation.
• Harrison County Recycling Center LLC: $70,574 to fund equipment upgrades to support the recycling operation.
• Shepherd University: $17,305.50 to fund a bottle crusher system for a new glass recycling initiative.
• City of Charleston: $45,000 to assist with recycling coordinator wages and a feasibility study.
• Goodwill Industries of Kanawha Valley Inc.: $68,213 to assist with equipment costs to support the expansion of textile and electronic recycling operations.
• Knighthorst Shredding LLC: $67,000 to fund vehicle and equipment costs for the expansion of the paper shredding and recycling operation.
• Mountain State Waste: $75,000 to fund equipment upgrades to support the expansion of the cardboard recycling operation.
• Marion County Solid Waste Authority: $143,551.50 to assist with personnel, equipment and operational expenses for the county’s recycling program.
• Mason County Commission: $56,000 to construct a metal building and foundation for material storage to support the county’s recycling program.
• Mason County Solid Waste Authority: $95,874 to assist with personnel, vehicle, equipment upgrades and operational expenses to support the county’s recycling program.
• Mason County Board of Education: $63,193.24 to fund the new countywide school recycling initiative, “Every School, Every Classroom, Every Employee, and Every Child Recycling Everyday.”
• City of Morgantown: $36,786 to assist the city’s Green Team with a new educational campaign, school recycling projects, personnel and training for outreach and educational efforts.
• WVU Research Corporation: $18,025.25 to assist with expansion of the recycling program and sustainability efforts at the Potomac State College campus.
• Pleasants County Solid Waste Authority: $69,510 to assist with personnel, training and education, equipment and operational expenses to support the county’s recycling program.
• Pocahontas County Solid Waste Authority: $49,350 to assist with personnel, training, vehicle, operational and equipment expenses to support the county’s recycling program.
• Roane County Solid Waste Authority: $111,412 to assist with recycling and operational expenses for the county recycling program.
• Sunrise Sanitation Services Inc.: $75,000 to assist with vehicle and equipment expenses for the expansion of the recycling operation.
• Upshur County Solid Waste Authority: $4,165 to fund paper shred events, outreach and educational efforts.
• Wetzel County Solid Waste Authority: $60,000 to assist with personnel, facility improvements, advertising, equipment and operational expenses to support the county recycling program.
• Wirt County Solid Waste Authority: $31,000 to fund personnel and operational supplies to support the county recycling program.
• Habitat for Humanity of the Mid-Ohio Valley: $54,036 to fund a new vehicle for the expansion of the recycling operation.
• Latrobe Street Mission: $69,000 to fund vehicle costs and operational expenses for the ongoing textile recycling program.
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