Assistance program
Solid Waste Management Assistance Grants
$17.6 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 66.808
- What it does
- To promote use of integrated solid waste management systems to solve solid waste generation and management problems at the local, regional and national levels. Fiscal Year 2025: Projects seek to increase capacity for food scraps composting in the region through the upgrade of yard waste composting facilities. The upgraded yard waste composting facilities will be capable of processing waste food which increases the capacity for wasted food composting in the region. Additional projects seek to enhance recycling systems, making them stronger and more agile to address changing materials markets. Further projects seek the promotion of reuse. Reuse involves the recovery or reapplication of salvaged, usable materials or products in a manner that maintains items in their original form. Reuse takes advantage of embodied carbon and energy, resources, and impacts already incurred in the production of original products such as lumber, refillable glass bottles, reusable food storage containers, refurbished wood pallets, and repaired electronics.
- Who benefits
- State and local governments, Tribes, U.S. territories and possessions, the public, and interstate agencies.
- Who applies
- State (including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Northern Mariana Islands), local, Tribal, interstate, and intrastate government agencies and instrumentalities, and non-profit organizations that are not 501(c)(4) organizations that lobby, including non-profit educational institutions and non-profit hospitals. Individuals and for-profit organizations are not eligible. For certain competitive funding opportunities under this assistance listing, the Agency may limit eligibility to compete to a number or subset of eligible applicants consistent with the Agency's Assistance Agreement Competition Policy. Additionally, EPA may limit competition under this assistance listing to Tribes and Inter-Tribal Consortia.
- Authorized by
- Solid Waste Disposal Act
- Program site
- https://www.epa.gov/smm ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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