Louisville Awarded Grants To Expand Recycling The Recycling Partnership along with the Southeast Re- cycling Development Council (SERDC), the Kentucky and American BeverageAssociations, and Unilever’s Love Beauty and Planet brand have awarded $1,071,000 in grants to Lou- isville, Kentucky, to increase the city’s collection of recycla- bles.The investments will fund 28,000 large, lidded, rolling recycling carts to residents in the Urban Services District who currently recycle with small bins. Louisville was reportedly selected to receive these grant awards because of its dedication to advancing recycling in the community.The grants will also fund education and outreach efforts that help residents learn how and what to recycle as well as the community’s new collection schedule. The expansion of Louisville’s collection system increas- es these households’ recycling container capacity by more than five times.This allows for recycling pick-up every other week — a more cost-effective approach to recycling pro- gram resiliency. The Partnership estimates the recycling transformation will yield an additional 3.5 million pounds of recycled content for local producers. This grant builds on The Recycling Partnership’s efforts to work with the private and public sector to address sus- tainability challenges in communities nationwide. In seven years, the Partnership has overseen the funding of more than 976,000 recycling carts in U.S. communities. The $721,000 grant fromThe Recycling Partnership was funded in part by the Kentucky Beverage Association in partnership with American Beverage’s Every Bottle Back initiative.The initiative works with leading environmental and sustainability organizations — World Wildlife Fund, Closed Loop Partners and The Recycling Partnership — to reduce the beverage industry’s plastic footprint by increas- ing the number of bottles that are collected and remade into new ones. The Partnership Recycling Resilience Fund, which was made possible in part by an initial donation from Unilever’s Love Beauty and Planet brand, is designed to help local re- cycling programs build resiliency after the challenges expe- rienced as a direct result of COVID-19.This fund allows the continuation of ongoing recycling operations or programs that would otherwise be significantly impacted or curtailed as a direct result of budget shortfalls and strains on resources. Michigan Waste Executive Charged For Illegal Dumping The owner of Flint, Michigan-based Oil Chem Inc. has been sentenced to 12 months of imprisonment for dump- ing millions of gallons of landfill liquid into nearby sewers. Robert J. Massey, Owner and President of the chemical company, had previously been accused by federal prosecu- tors in December of knowingly polluting Flint sewers with 47 million gallons of untreated landfill liquid coming from eight landfills. Massey pleased guilty to violating the Clean Water Act, a federal law meant to protect water quality, in January.
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