2011 Litter Reduction and Recycling Grants, by City

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1 2011 Litter Reduction and Recycling Grants, by City City Organization Award Amount Category ProjectDescription Ainsworth KBR Solid Waste $30, Recycling Alliance Keep Alliance Beautiful $29, Recycling Alliance Keep Alliance Beautiful $3, Cleanup Alliance Keep Alliance Beautiful $16, Education Beatrice Dempster Industries, LLC $16, Recycling Construct a 50' X 80' warehouse and baling room to expand the existing recycling facility. Wages to continue operation of recycling center and conduct educational recycling programs. Cleanup minigrants will be provided to community organizations. Funding for a variety of school and community educational programs. Funding for a new type of plastic side-dump bin and new rotomold manufacturing process to create skin-foam-skin bin walls. Beatrice Keep Beatrice Beautiful $2, Recycling Funding for a pharmaceutical take-back event. Beatrice Keep Beatrice Beautiful $6, Cleanup Cleanup of 100 miles of roadside and cleanup of fairgrounds during events. Grant includes purchase of 12 trash receptacles for city parks. Beatrice Keep Beatrice Beautiful $1, Education Funding for Litter Hotline billboards. Beatrice Keep Beatrice Beautiful $16, Education Continuation of anti-littering and recycling educational programs and activities. Boston Product Stewardship Institute, Inc. $44, Recycling Funds to build the capacity and infrastructure for product stewardship in Nebraska through education and market development. PSI will coordinate with WasteCap Nebraska on this project. Chadron Keep Chadron Beautiful $3, Recycling Funding for an electronic recycling event. Chadron Keep Chadron Beautiful $30, Recycling Pickup of cardboard and white office paper in the Chadron area. 1

2 Chadron Keep Chadron Beautiful $17, Education Columbus City of Columbus, Public Works $124, Recycling Columbus Keep Columbus Beautiful $10, Education Fremont Keep Fremont Beautiful $21, Recycling Fremont Keep Fremont Beautiful $24, Education Grand Island Goodwill Industries of Greater Nebraska, Inc $27, Recycling Grand Island Heartland Disposal Recycling $58, Recycling Grand Island Salvation Army $17, Recycling Anti-littering and recycling educational programming for students and community residents using classroom presentations, community events and local media. Construction of new Recycling Center on same site as existing Columbus Transfer Station. Continuation of recycling and anti-litter educational programs for school students and community residents. One-day household hazardous waste collection event. Funding for educational programs presented in schools and to residents of Fremont and surrounding communities. Purchase of three trailers for use in small communities on a rotating basis. Purchase material and construct a recycling center for city of Grand Island. Purchase a forklift to be used to haul 1,000-lb. bales of rags and cardboard and loading them onto trucks. Grand Island Grand Island Area Clean Community System $4, Cleanup Cleanup of 200 miles and target area along entryway to Grand Island. Grand Island Grand Island Area Clean Community System $26, Education Continuation of community education programs. Gretna Gretna Sanitation, Inc. $36, Recycling Purchase of used John Deere 125 hp PTO MFWD tractor and used John Deere loader. 2

3 Hastings City of Hastings, Solid Waste Landfill Facility $11, Recycling One day household hazardous waste collection and recycling event for the community of Hastings and residents of Adams County. Kimball Keep Kimball Beautiful $20, Recycling Kimball Keep Kimball Beautiful $5, Education Lexington Lexington Area Solid Waste Agency $49, Recycling Lincoln Green Future, Inc. $35, Recycling Lincoln Keep Nebraska Beautiful $35, Recycling Lincoln MileStone Local Surfaces, LLC $21, Recycling Lincoln Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska $31, Recycling Lincoln People's City Mission $45, Recycling Four one-day events in Kimball for pharmaceutical take back, e-waste collection, document shredding and household hazardous waste collection. Funding to continue providing educational programs to youth through schools and extracurricular activities, adults and residents of neighboring small communities. Purchase a new baler for use in baling and recycling cardboard, newsprint, aluminum, tin and plastic. Purchase of Ford F-250 pickup truck, enclosed trailer, 200 deskside recycling containers and a PaperTaker II, 33 gal. recycling bin. Funds for the Nebraska Materials Exchange and Nebraska Used Oil Collection Programs. Purchase of a hammermill to crush glass and porcelain construction debris as part of the process to manufacture counter tops from recycled material. Funds for contractual services to remove and recycle inefficient refrigerators and freezers. Funds to purchase a used vertical baler, recycle bin carts and a storage trailer. 3

4 Lincoln University of NE-Lincoln (Landscape Services) $2, Recycling Purchase 100 roll-out totes for collecting recyclables at Jazz in June events and Husker home football games. Lincoln WasteCap Nebraska $82, Recycling Funding to increase the number of businesses with green policies and practices through developmental programs and technical assistance. Lincoln Keep Lincoln-Lancaster County Beautiful $11, Cleanup Minigrants for cleanups. Lincoln Keep Lincoln-Lancaster County Beautiful $34, Education Lyons City of Lyons $9, Recycling Norfolk Keep Norfolk Beautiful - NCIC $8, Education Educational programs for youth, community and business sectors. Purchase a new vertical baler and operating costs. Continuation of educational programs for schools, the City of Norfolk and surrounding communities. North Platte Keep North Platte-Lincoln County Beautiful $52, Recycling Funding to increase community recycling including the purchase of one additional recycling trailer. Funds will also be used for recycling at community events and to prepare community for curbside recycling. North Platte Keep North Platte-Lincoln County Beautiful $18, Cleanup Funds for Cleanup activities. North Platte Keep North Platte-Lincoln County Beautiful $21, Education Ogallala U.S. Recycling Company $10, Recycling Provide environmental education in schools, advance youth leadership, and provide information on recycling and litter prevention to area communities. Funds to purchase one cardboard recycling container and one steel recycling container. 4

5 Ogallala Keep Keith County Beautiful $18, Education Continuation of educational programs for school children and residents of Keith County. Additional educational anti-littering programs for visitors to Lake McConaughy. Omaha Electronic Recyclers $89, Recycling Omaha Habitat for Humanity/ Omaha ReStore $21, Recycling Omaha Metropolitan Area Planning Agency (MAPA) $50, Recycling Omaha RecyclePal, Inc. $24, Recycling Omaha Keep Omaha Beautiful $27, Education Ord Loup Basin RC & D Council $16, Education Purchase a mobile electronic hard drive destroyer and document destruction shredding truck. Purchase a heavy-duty forklift to manage, store and display large, heavy, bulk home improvement items donated to the ReStore. Update the MAPA Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan for the MAPA region. Funding for Recyclebags, an all fiber, recyclable collection bag with consumer information printed on it. Funding for in-school education programs and community educational events. Funding for educational materials for Spanish speakers. Provide education to adults and children in order to increase awareness of recycling, litter prevention and reduction in landfill use. Loup RC&D includes the counties of Blaine, Custer, Garfield, Greeley, Loup, Howard, Sherman, Valley and Wheeler. Red Cloud Trailblazer R. C. & D. $19, Recycling Funds for an e-waste event that will include collection of computer equipment, TVs and other electronic equipment. The event will cover the seven-county RC&D area. 5

6 Schuyler Keep Schuyler Beautiful $28, Recycling Continuation of recycling program/community collections and event collections of recyclables. Schuyler Keep Schuyler Beautiful $3, Recycling E-waste collection event. Schuyler Keep Schuyler Beautiful $10, Education Scottsbluff Keep Scottsbluff-Gering Beautiful $35, Recycling Funding for educational activities for school-age children, community event participants and members of community organizations. Funds for an electronic waste collection event and a pharmaceutical take-back. Scottsbluff Keep Scottsbluff-Gering Beautiful $15, Cleanup Continuation of the Adopt-A-Spot program. Scottsbluff Keep Scottsbluff-Gering Beautiful $24, Education Sidney Keep Sidney Beautiful $12, Education Continuation of educational programs for youth and adults. Funding to provide educational events to the community. Social marketing using the internet will be started this year. South Sioux City Keep Northeast Nebraska Beautiful $20, Education Provide educational programs on litter prevention and recycling to students, businesses and community residents. 6