Indiana agency awards grant money

Recycling Today, April, 2004

Virtual Scavengers Project, an Indianapolis organization that scavenges for unwanted electronics, has received a grant of $28,700 from the state of Indiana's Department of Environmental Management (IDEM).

The agency has awarded nine additional recycling grants worth $195,000. IDEM's recycling grants, made through the Indiana Recycling Grant Program, help divert all types of re-useable products from landfills.

The fund is replenished by a surcharge of $.50 per ton on garbage placed in Indiana's landfills.

The recipients are: Cedar Lake, Lake County, $15,500 to buy a chipper; Lake Station, Lake County, $15,500 to buy a chipper; Lowell, Lake County, 14,250, to buy a chipper; Munster, Lake County, $8,200 to buy a chipper; Rising Sun, Ohio County, $6,800 to buy a box truck to collect organic waste; Community Thrift Store, Henry County, $14,000 to buy a baler and forklift to divert textile waste; Opportunity Enterprises, Porter County, $29,500 to buy and to install a baler, to conduct promotions and to enhance paper recycling efforts; The Virtual Scavengers Project, Marion County, $28,700, to buy equipment and conduct promotion for electronics recycling; Sulivan County Solid Waste Management District (SWMD), $34,700 to buy equipment to serve an additional four communities, to collect recyclables from a campground and to hold 13 promotions each year; and Monroe County SWMD, $27,500 to buy equipment needed to process cardboard and paper for recycling.