Ohio county receives tire recycling grant

The Lorain County Solid Waste Management District in Ohio has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to help it purchase a shredder, portable sidewall cutter, alligator shears, mulch shredder and other equipment to process collected scrap tire.

The grant is one of 18 announced by the Ohio EPA tied to recycling, waste diversion and litter collection efforts. The combined value of the grants is $1.4 million.

Other recycling- and diversion-related grants include:

• $200,000 to the Cuyahoga County Solid Waste Management District and Waste Management to purchase a glass breaker and recycled glass cleaning system;
• nearly $175,000 to the Portage County Solid Waste District for a recycling collection truck;
• $160,000 to the city of Avon Lake (also in Lorain County) and Westlake, Ohio-plastics compounder Geon Performance Solutions to purchase recycling equipment;
• $100,000 to Lake-Geauga Habitat for Humanity to purchase two box trucks for recycling events;
• $100,000 to the Mahoning County Solid Waste Management District to help purchase a shredder, auger, biofilter and other recycling equipment;
• $96,000 to the city of Elyria (in Lorain County) to purchase a chipper, pick-up truck and recycling equipment for green waste processing;
• $60,000 to Holden Forests and Gardens in Lake County to help construct compost bays to recycle organic materials; and
• nearly $56,000 to Aluminum Cans for Burned Children to purchase a box truck for recycling events.

Several of the smaller grants went to litter cleanup efforts organized by not-for-profit groups in various Northeast Ohio cities.