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Adair Fiscal Court receives $38,949 recycling grant

Russell, Taylor Fiscal Courts also included in announcement. Click on headline for complete list of grants announced by Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear
From Commonwealth News Center

FRANKFORT, KY - Gov. Steve Beshear today announced 38 recycling and 10 household hazardous waste grants totaling over $3.5 million, including grants to Adair, Russell and Taylor County Fiscal Courts. The local area recycling grants are:
  • Russell County Fiscal Court - $89,628
  • Adair County Fiscal Court - $38,949
  • Taylor County Fiscal Court - $26,100
The grants are to expand recycling in Kentucky, reduce the amount of solid waste going into landfills, and sustain the environmental management of hazardous waste from homes, including electronic scrap and mercury.




The Kentucky Pride Fund, administered by the Energy and Environment Cabinet's Division of Waste Management, is awarding 48 grants totaling $3,538,842 from the $1.75 collected for each ton of municipal solid waste disposed of in Kentucky landfills.

"Recycling and managing household hazardous waste play a large part in Kentucky's efforts to go green and conserve energy statewide," said Gov. Beshear. "The hazardous waste grants allow homeowners to safely dispose of chemicals and other materials that pose a threat to human health and the environment."

"Our Commonwealth's growing interest in recycling is evident from the addition of eight first-time recycling grant applicants," said Energy and Environment Cabinet Secretary Len Peters. "This program is increasing the infrastructure that allows more Kentuckians to participate in the recycling, reduction, and reuse of materials we have on hand, thereby reducing our need for virgin materials and lessening our carbon footprint."

Grant recipients, along with the grant amounts, are:
  • Adair County Fiscal Court - $38,949
  • Allen County Fiscal Court - $55,850
  • Ballard County Fiscal Court - $93,419
  • Barbourville (Knox County) - $65,699
  • Bath County Fiscal Court - $2,541
  • Big Sandy Regional Recycling Program - $128,044
  • Bell County Garbage (109) District - $79,852
  • Breathitt County Fiscal Court/Wolfe County Fiscal Court - $266,935
  • Danville-Boyle County Recycle Center - $78,000
  • Daviess County Board of Education - $66,125
  • Daviess County Fiscal Court - $23,396
  • Eastern Kentucky University - $39,100
  • Estill County Fiscal Court - $53,166
  • Flemingsburg (Fleming County) - $27,785
  • Garrard/Lincoln Solid Waste Management Area - $169,167
  • Hardin County Fiscal Court - $19,718
  • Hopkinsville-Christian County Recycling Program - $26,000
  • Jessamine County Fiscal Court - $136,237
  • LaRue County Fiscal Court - $32,400
  • London (Laurel County) - $187,474
  • Madisonville (Hopkins County) - $62,218
  • Lyon County Fiscal Court - $40,107
  • Mason County Fiscal Court - $173,000
  • McCracken County Fiscal Court - $86,
  • Mercer County Fiscal Court - $4,500
  • Morehead-Rowan County Fiscal Court-Morehead State University - $21,505
  • Northern Kentucky Solid Waste Management Area - $15,937
  • Owen County Fiscal Court - $109,665
  • Pulaski County Fiscal Court - $223,168
  • Regional Recycling Center (Washington, Marion and Nelson counties, city of Lebanon) -$47,936
  • Robertson County Fiscal Court - $24,250
  • Russell County Fiscal Court - $89,628
  • Taylor County Fiscal Court - $26,100
  • Tri-County Recycling Alliance Inc. - $129,769
  • Wayne County Fiscal Court - $52,157
  • Winchester Municipal Utilities Commission - $58,990
  • Woodford County Fiscal Court - $124,061
Household Hazardous Waste Grants
  • Grant County Solid Waste Board - $16,560
  • Hardin County Fiscal Court - $20,600
  • Jessamine County Fiscal Court - $20,180
  • Madison County Fiscal Court - $5,000
  • Nelson County Fiscal Court - $19,450
  • Northern Kentucky Solid Waste Management Area - $22,947
  • Oldham County Fiscal Court - $13,981
  • Paducah (McCracken County) - $27,000
  • Rowan County Fiscal Court - $10,600
  • Tri-County Recycling Alliance - $22,300
The grants require a 25 percent local match in the form of cash or "in-kind" personnel, educational activities and materials and advertising to promote the program from the cities or counties receiving the awards.


This story was posted on 2010-06-26 06:49:55
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