North Carolina awards recycling grants to 16 companies

North Carolina awards recycling grants to 16 companies
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The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has announced that its recycling program has provided $492,937 in recycling business development grants to 16 North Carolina recycling companies.

According to a news release from the department, the grants are projected to create 108 new jobs and generate more than $1.3 million in new, private business investments while reducing the state’s dependence on landfill disposal.

“Recycling businesses provide high quality jobs for North Carolinians and play a unique role in boosting the state’s economy while improving the state’s environmental and carbon footprint,” says Jamie Ragan, director of the Division of Environmental Assistance and Customer Service at the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. “These grant-funded projects will create jobs and put recyclable materials back into the state’s economy, thereby helping manufacturers make new products, reducing North Carolina’s reliance on foreign markets and ultimately diverting material from the waste stream.”

For the fourth year in a row, DEQ says it gave priority to projects that improve North Carolina’s capacity to domestically process and use mixed paper and nonbottle plastics. According to the North Carolina DEQ, strengthening local markets leads to more resilient recycling programs and better value for these materials when diverted from landfill disposal. 

The recycling business grantees are from 13 counties, representing both large and small companies. The North Carolina DEQ says types of grant projects awarded include expanding plastic processing capacity, upgrading material recovery facilities and improving recycling markets for other materials. The following companies received grants:

• American Recycling in Buncombe County received a $50,000 grant to help purchase an optical sorter to expand collection and processing of polypropylene (PP) bottles and containers;
• AMES Copper Group in Cleveland County received a $30,000 grant to help purchase a spectrometer for the company’s new copper smelting facility to achieve quality specifications and maximize the volume of copper material recycled;
• Brunson Recycling in McDowell County received a $36,979 grant to help purchase an aspirator and rotary drum to expand and improve industrial plastics recycling;
• Cardinal Recycling in Rockingham County received a $20,000 grant to help purchase a baler with a conveyor to increase processing capacity for industrial plastics, film and cardboard;
• Clear Path Recycling in Cumberland County received a $40,000 grant to help purchase a grinder system to recover mixed color plastic bottle flake;
• EnviroVision in Gaston County received a $30,000 grant to help purchase a shredder conveyor system to support its new service of collecting, reusing and recycling 96-gallon carts coming out of service;
• Global Circle Recycling in Gaston County received a $30,000 grant to help purchase a shredder and regrind system to process additional industrial plastics;
• Mahan & Huff in Guilford County received an $11,000 grant to help purchase tractor trailers to expand its polystyrene (PS) recycling program;
• McGill Environmental in Sampson County received a $20,000 grant to help purchase a radial stacker to move and store finished products to minimize handling and maintain product quality;
• New East Recycling & Container in Pitt County received an $11,000 grant to help purchase 20-yard and 30-yard roll-off recycling Dumpsters to expand construction and demolition debris recycling;
• North Davidson Garbage Service in Davidson County received a $25,000 grant to help purchase a wheel loader to manage incoming mixed recycling loads more safely and effectively;
• Plastic Network in Lincoln County received a $25,000 grant to help purchase silos to store material and facilitate product blending;
• Shimar in Durham County received a $47,333 grant to help purchase a forklift and truck to recycle lab plastics from area research institutions;
• Sonoco Recycling in Wake County received a $50,000 grant to help purchase an optical sorter to separate fiber and nonfiber recyclables;
• Strategic Materials in Durham County received a $36,625 grant to help purchase a new collection truck; and
• Synergy Recycling in Rockingham County received a $30,000 grant to help install a new processing line to separate cathode-ray tubes for processing.

Grants are offered each year, depending on funding availability, to reduce the flow of solid waste into landfills and continue growing the state’s recycling economy. Recipients are required to provide a minimum cash match of 50 percent of the grant award; however, the level of private investment in 2021 is expected to more than double the total grant funding. The combination of grant and private dollars will result in a nearly $1.8 million investment in the state’s recycling infrastructure.

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Source: Recycling Today
North Carolina awards recycling grants to 16 companies
<![CDATA[The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has announced that its recycling program has provided $492,937 in recycling business development grants to 16 North Carolina recycling companies.According to a news release from the department, the grants are projected to create 108 new jobs and generate more than $1.3 million in new, private business investments while reducing the state’s dependence on landfill disposal.“Recycling businesses provide high quality jobs for North Carolinians and play a unique role in boosting the state’s economy while improving the state’s environmental and carbon footprint,” says Jamie Ragan, director of the Division of Environmental Assistance and Customer Service at the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. “These grant-funded projects will create jobs and put recyclable materials back into the state’s economy, thereby helping manufacturers make new products, reducing North Carolina’s reliance on foreign markets and ultimately diverting material from the waste stream.”For the fourth year in a row, DEQ says it gave priority to projects that improve North Carolina’s capacity to domestically process and use mixed paper and nonbottle plastics. According to the North Carolina DEQ, strengthening local markets leads to more resilient recycling programs and better value for these materials when diverted from landfill disposal. The…