Other Grant Opportunities

Grant Opportunities through EPD

The Recycling and Waste Diversion (RWD) grant program provides funding to local governments to support waste reduction and recycling. 

The Local Government Scrap Tire Abatement Reimbursement (STAR) program provides funding to aid scrap tire clean up.

The Tire Products (Tire) Grant provides funding for projects that incorporate scrap tire-derived products into paving, trail, and playground surfaces or that identify innovative uses for these products through research.

Grant opportunities specific to environmental education can be found at EEinGeorgia.org.

There are grants offered through GA EPD in other branches. Click here for more details.

Keep Georgia Beautiful Foundation

BRACE Community Improvement Grant

The purpose of the BRACE Grant Program is to reduce litter, blight, and illegal dumping on public property and encourage code enforcement efforts. Funded through the Solid Waste Trust Fund (SWTF), the grant program is designed to prioritize assistance for communities to address these challenges. 

Visit KGBF's website to learn more. 

Federal Government Grant Opportunities

Federal grant opportunities can be searched at Grants.gov.

Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling Grants for Communities

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides $275,000,000 total from Fiscal Year 2022 to Fiscal Year 2026 for grants authorized under the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act. Projects funded through the funding opportunity will:

  • Implement the “building a circular economy for all strategy series.”
  • Improve local post-consumer materials management programs, including municipal recycling.
  • Make improvements to local waste management systems.

The entities eligible to apply for the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling Grants for Communities are political subdivisions of states and territories. EPA considers counties, cities, towns, parishes, and similar units of governments that have executive and legislative functions to be political subdivisions of states and territories.

The total estimated funding for the competitive opportunity is approximately $58,000,000. 

To allow for efficient management of the competitive process, EPA requests submittal of an optional, informal Notice of Intent to Apply by November 15, 2024 to [email protected]

Learn more at: https://www.epa.gov/infrastructure/solid-waste-infrastructure-recycling-grants-communities

2024 Region 4 Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) Notice of Funding Opportunity

EPA Region 4 is announcing the 2024 Region 4 Sustainable Materials Management Grants competition and soliciting applications from eligible applicants that will improve community resilience and sustainability through sustainable materials management (SMM). Applicants must select at least one of the following technical assistance methods: research, investigation, experiments, education, training, studies and/or demonstration of innovative techniques. Applicants’ projects must take place within EPA Region 4, which includes Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

Eligible applicants include states, local, interstate, and intrastate government agencies and instrumentalities, federally recognized Tribes, inter-Tribal consortia, and non-profit organizations. 

EPA Region 4 anticipates awarding approximately 2-4 grants ranging from $50,000 to $125,000 each, for a total of approximately $250,000 for the competition. Awards may be fully or incrementally funded, and are subject to a number of considerations including, but not limited to, the availability of funds, quality of applications received, Agency priorities and other applicable considerations. There is no match/cost share requirement.

Applications are due by October 31, 2024.   

Additional information is available in the attached document and on grants.gov (here: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356155) under the Funding Opportunity Number EPA-R4-LCRD-2024-11.

Please consult the solicitation for further details and for contact information for questions. 

The Recycling Partnership Grant Opportunities

The Recycling Partnership (TRP) is a leading, national force dedicated to improving recycling. TRP provides resources, reports, and grant opportunities to local governments. 

Current grant opportunities include:

Residential Curbside Recycling Grant

The Residential Curbside Recycling Cart Grant Program presents communities with the opportunity to apply for grant funding to convert bin or bag based curbside recycling programs to carts or to implement new cart-based curbside recycling programs. Applications for funding are accepted on an ongoing and continuous basis, and communities that receive funding for carts will also be offered financial and technical assistance in support of recycling education and outreach.

Several local governments in Georgia are recipients of grant funding from TRP.

Glass Recycling Foundation Grants

The Glass Recycling Foundation (GRF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The GRF’s mission is to promote the preservation of the environment through supporting and promoting effective glass recycling efforts. The GRF is dedicated to increasing material recovery and connecting glass generators with end markets.

The GRF’s grant program is intended to increase glass recovery and diversion from landfills, and to connect glass generators with end-markets and is available to nonprofit entities, municipal, county, city, and state governments, glass collectors, material recovery facilities, and manufacturers.