Total IIJA Funding: $275 million over 5 years Overview: The Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program provides grants to implement the National Recycling Strategy to improve post-consumer materials management and infrastructure; support improvements to local post-consumer materials management and recycling programs; and assist local waste management authorities in making impro. [...] The grant program has three categories of funding opportunities.; this bootcamp will support applicants in the Recycling Grants for Communities category (please note that the Recycling Grants for Communities is also called Recycling Grants for Political Subdivisions). [...] However, according to the FY23 (NOFO), applicants will be evaluated based on their plan to leverage additional funds and resources beyond the grant funds awarded to support the proposed project activities. [...] Key Funding Criteria: Based on the FY23 NOFO, applicants can expect to be evaluated on the extent to which their proposal will: Address disproportionate and adverse human health, environmental, climate-related, and other cumulative impacts; Engage with local residents who will be affected by the project to ensure their meaningful participation with respect to the design, project planning, and perf. [...] Development of or upgrades to reuse infrastructure such as online reuse platforms, community repair spaces, technology and equipment to improve materials management reuse options, food donation, and upcycling, staging areas for material reuse/donation, reuse warehouses, and reuse centers, and electronic waste and computer recycling and refurbishing.
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