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Promotes markets for materials recovered from the solid waste stream. Options available to Missouri businesses include technical assistance, membership in the Missouri Buys Recycled Initiative, and financial assistance. Through this program, Missouri businesses can receive up to $75,000 in financial assistance for eligible projects.
Projects funded in the past years include farm implements and toys manufactured from recovered plastic, a crushed glass process used in the construction of roads, and mulch and garden products manufactured from recycled pallets.
Contact: Alice Geller
PO Box 744, 325 Jefferson Street, Jefferson, City, MO 65102 USA
Phone: 573-751-4919
Fax: 573-635-3486
Madison, Wis. -- Private businesses, local and county governments, and individuals received grants totaling more than $926,000 earlier this year to advance waste reduction and recycling in Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources awarded 16 grants during the first 1995 grant cycle of the Waste Reduction and Recycling Demonstration Grant Programs. The cost-sharing grants, which provide up to $150,000 or 50 percent of the total eligible costs of a project, are awarded through a recycling demonstration grant fund that was established four years ago. "Since the program began, we have awarded over $5 million in 70 grants," says Richard Braddock, DNR markets development specialist.
Two different types of grants are available: Waste Reduction and Recycling Demonstration Grants for innovative waste reduction and recycling projects on a pilot or demonstration scale; and New Recycling Market Demonstration Grants, which are designed to improve the economics of Wisconsin recycling markets but which do not have to qualify as"innovative" projects.
"One recipient of the 1995 grants is using the funds to eliminate or reduce the amount of solid and hazardous waste generated through dry cleaning. The grant will help fund new clothes cleaning technology that uses water and biodegradable detergents to clean clothes," Braddock said.
Other projects approved include one to develop networks for exchanging materials between businesses, schools, and non-profit institutions and another to demonstrate the technical feasibility of using bioremediation to reduce or eliminate oily sludge generated at a metal processing plant.
For More Information Contact:
Richard Braddock (608) 264-6027
or
Kimberly Huber (608) 267-7594
Liqui-Tech Recycling of Milwaukee received a grant for $65,751 to create a new market for waste anti-freeze by expanding Liqui- Tech's mobile on-sight used anti-freeze recycling system to additional areas of the state. For more information contact: Sheldon Gendelman, Treasurer, (414) 964-7090.
The Town of Vernon, Waukesha County, received a grant for $5,012 to establish a drop-off site at the Town Hall for citizens to recycle used oil filters and anti-freeze. For more information contact: LeRoy M. Titze, Director of Public Works, (414) 662- 3001.
The Oneida County Solid Waste Department received a grant for $101,143 to demonstrate a source separated composting pilot program that will compost food wastes and non-recyclable paper from grocery stores, restaurants, and schools, and silica coated paper from the Rhinelander Paper Company. For more information contact: Bart Sexton, Solid Waste Administrator, (715) 282-6003.
S & R Compost of Waukesha received a grant for $74,272 to demonstrate the feasibility of setting up a statewide market for a new mixed waste compost soil made from Southern Wisconsin yardwaste and the chicken manure from the Cold Spring Egg Farm. For more information contact: Gary Bartels, Operations Manager, (414) 968-2571.
Bill Brey of Sturgeon Bay received a grant for $19,833 to apply gypsum board demolition waste to alfalfa, corn, and other crops lands that would benefit from calcium sulfate, and monitor the effects on crops and soil. For more information contact: Bill Brey, Dairy Farmer, (414) 743-9015.
Cornerstone Material Recovery, Inc. of Genoa City received a grant for $124,810 to demonstrate the recovery and recycling of significant quantities of waste materials from new home construction in the greater Milwaukee County-Waukesha County metropolitan area. The project goal will be to divert a minimum of 40 percent of construction waste materials from landfill disposal. For more information contact: Steven Clements, Vice President, (815) 653-1972.
Deconstruction, Inc. of Madison received a grant for $56,482 to demonstrate a new market for used asphalt shingles in Dane County by shredding and adding shingles to crushed concrete to produce a base material for road and parking-lot construction. The project will evaluate which use for asphalt shingles is more efficient and economical, road base or pavement pot-hole filler. For more information contact: Robert Walther, Recycling Manager, (608) 244-4332.
Outagamie County received a grant for $11,299 to utilize mixed glass aggregate as a replacement for stone aggregate in highway asphalt material. For more information contact: Gary R. Steede, Interim Recycling Coordinator, (414) 832-4710.
Environmentally Sensitive Solutions of Shorewood received a grant for $61,853 to design and install a bioremediation system at a metal processing plant that will reduce or eliminate the amount of oily waste sludge generated at the plant. For more information contact: Matthew E. Pliszka, Vice President, (414) 963-4055.
Kohler Company of Kohler received a grant for $27,626 to demonstrate the suitability of used foundry sand as an aggregate substitute in controlled low strength materials (CLSM). Work towards resolving the issues of regulatory barriers to beneficial reuse of foundry sand in CLSM, prove the performance of the product, and gain acceptance by end users. For more information contact: Tom Green, Senior Environmental Project Engineer, (920) 457-4441.
University of Wisconsin - Madison received a grant for $91,460 to assess the performance of biological phosphorus removal systems for dairy and food processing wastewater to minimize the volume of waste sludge that must either be taken to landfills or land disposal sites. For more information contact: A.P. Hackbart, Administrative Officer, (608) 262-7247.
RecycleWorlds Consulting of Madison received a grant for $49,304 to determine if the small quantity plastic container stream (injection grade HDPE, PS tubs and pails, and PVC, LDPE and PP bottles, and postconsumer film) can be commingled and recycled into feedstock for thick-walled compression molding applications such as air conditioner condenser pads and transformer support pads and be competitive with the concrete products for which they are substituted. For more information contact: Peter Anderson, President, (608) 231-1100.
Rose Plastics and Machinery of Milwaukee received a grant for $134,011 to demonstrate the recycling of industrial thermoset discontinuous and continuous long fiber composite material through the production and testing of protective truck panels. For more information contact: Robert H. Rose, President, (414) 476-2190.
Valet Dry Cleaners of Racine received a grant for $41,070 to eliminate or greatly reduce the amount of solid and hazardous waste generated in the dry cleaning process by demonstrating a new cleaning technology that uses water and biodegradable detergents to dry clean clothes. For more information contact: Gary Becker, President, (414) 554-6966.
The Greater Beloit Chamber of Commerce received a grant for $29,338 to implement a material exchange network in collaboration with the Beloit Department of Public Works and the University of Wisconsin-Extension. This network will actively encourage and assist businesses to find reuse or recycling outlets for unwanted materials among other businesses, schools, and nonprofit organizations. For more information contact: Betsy Ahner, Executive Director, (608) 365-8835.
B. R. Amon & Sons, Inc. of Elkhorn received a grant for $33,382 to demonstrate a process for incinerating non-recyclable paper and plastic in a hot mix asphalt plant. Energy will be recovered in the asphalt plant and the resulting ash will be incorporated into the final product. For more information contact: Thomas Amon, Vice President, (414) 723-2547.
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