Spring Bin Grant Cycle Now Open. NRC is proud to partner again with the Coca Cola Company to offer the Spring, 2008 cycle of the Recycling Bin Grant Program. The program supports local community recycling programs by providing bins for collecting beverage container recyclables in public settings.
The grant program is open to government, civic, school, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies. Interested parties fill out an online application describing their proposal, justifying the need and specifying the bin types they are interested in from a pre-selected menu of options. The grants are awarded on a competitive basis to proposals likely to have the greatest impact on increasing beverage container recycling.
Over seventy five grants were awarded with the Fall 2007 grant cycle to community recycling programs across the country. Recipients included municipalities, colleges, Native American tribes, and community based-NGO’s. Among the winning applicants were proposals to establish lending programs to provide special event recycling bins for community events, place bins throughout a local baseball stadium, expand recycling opportunities within university administration buildings and place recycling bins alongside existing trash receptacles on a small town’s streets.
The online application for the Spring 2008 cycle opened for submittals on Monday, March 3 and will close Friday, April 4. Recipients will be announced on Earthday, April 22nd. For more information about the grant program or to apply, visit the program website at http://www.bingrant.org
The deadline for applications for the IL Zero Waste Schools Grant Program, a funding opportunity for K-12 Illinois schools to implement or expand recycling and waste reduction programs, is February 18, 2008. Click here for more information.
5th Annual Vermicomposting Symposium, Feb. 11, 2008, Northfield Center, Springfield, IL.
This is the fifth vermicomposting symposium to be held in Illlinois. The symposium is a forum for sharing vermiculture information, promoting vermiculture, stimulating the vermicompost market, and bringing vermiculturists, educators, and business people together so that everyone can benefit from learning about this excellent organic amendment. Click here to download the brochure (3.8 MB PDF)
Green Development and Construction Seminar, Dec. 7, 2007 (2.2 MB PDF). Examine the barriers to moving
construction waste from the landfill to recycling during this Green Development and Construction Program. Central Illinois experts will offer workable alternatives for construction waste disposal and cost-effective sustainable development. This program is offered by the Waste Management & Research Center, a division of the IL Department of Natural Resources.
The seminar will be held at Heartland Community College, CCB, Room 1407, 1500 Raab Road, Normal, IL 61761. Click the link above to download the brochure.
Electronics Recycling Symposium and Tour, December 14, 2007, Hilton Garden Inn, Springfield, Illinois. Join your colleagues for an informative and interactive symposium and tour on today’s top recycling issue, and meet the important players in the evolving electronics recycling industry.
Want to know how much electronics could be processed in IL if a law were enacted to ban electronics from landfill disposal? Check out the E-Scrap Capacity Report (1.6MB PDF)
The Latest Edition of Material Matters Fall 2007 -- IRA's downloadable newsletter! (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
IRA Elects Board of Directors. Recycling - It's in the Stars! Plastic Bag Initiative Fizzles. Curbside Program News. A Message from the President. Message from the Executive Director. And more!
Photos from the 2007 Conference have been added.
Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity is announcing the availability of the Zero Waste Grants for schools. Click here to read the announcement. Please follow the directions to receive the Request for Application.
DCEO FY07 Grant RFA and Workshops (PDF).
Click here to read the 2006 Annual Report.
Photos from the 2006 Conference have been added.
