Coca-Cola, KAB Award Grants to 82 Community Recycling Programs

Keep America Beautiful (KAB) and The Coca-Cola Co. are awarding 82 programs with grant money through the two organizations’ Recycling Bin Grant program.

The 82 programs were chosen out of a list of more than 1,700 organizations that applied for grant money.

Grants were awarded for a diverse range of settings from 37 states, including 14 colleges and universities, 32 municipalities and other local government entities, 20 K-12 schools, 17 nonprofit organizations, and additional community groups and Native American tribes.

Recipients were chosen by KAB based on a number of criteria, including where bins are likely to have the most impact on recovering beverage containers from the waste stream, ability of recipients to sustain their program in the future, and intention to support collection programs with recycling education and promotion. The Bin Grant is sponsored by The Coca-Cola Company and is designed to promote and support community recycling in the U.S.

“Our company is committed to designing packages that are recyclable and resource efficient,” says April Crow, sustainable packaging manager, The Coca-Cola Company. “We also are focused on ensuring that there are strong end-markets for our packages by investing in commercial recycling and community collection programs like RecycleBank and the Recycling Bin Grant Program. We hope this program will encourage communities to expand recycling as we continue to close the loop for our products as well as other valuable recyclables.”

The Bin Grant Program provides recycling bins directly to recipients and leverages the purchasing power and recycling expertise of KAB. Since its inception in the fall of 2007, the Bin Grant program has placed more than 1,100 recycling bins in 225 communities in 48 states and the District of Columbia.