Assistance program
Reduce, Reuse, Recycling Education and Outreach Grants
$57.9 Million committed in FY2024–FY2026
- Agency
- Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 66.921
- What it does
- The objective of the grant program is to improve the effectiveness of residential composting and recycling programs through public education and outreach. The most recent funding opportunity under the Recycling Education and Outreach grant program aims to fund projects that will meet the following objectives and reduce GHGs: • Decrease wasted food from households; • Expand markets for and sales of compost; and • Inform the public about new or existing residential food waste composting programs; provide information about the materials that are accepted as part of a residential food waste composting program; and increase collection rates and decrease physical contamination in residential food waste composting programs.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Eligible entities (specified in the IIJA): U.S. States, including the District of Columbia; States includes any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any agency or instrumentality thereof exclusive of local governments; Units of local government as defined in 2 CFR 200.1; Federally recognized tribal governments (including Alaskan Native Villages and Alaskan Native Corporations); Native Hawaiian organizations; Department of Hawaiian Homelands, Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Non-profit organizations as defined in 2 CFR 200.1; Public-private partnerships. 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. Please note that all applications for the FY25 competition must be coalition applications.
- Authorized by
- Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)
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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