Indiana agency awards grant money.
Virtual Scavengers Project, an Indianapolis organization that scavenges for unwanted electronics, has received a grant of $28,700 from the state of Indiana's Department of Environmental Management (IDEM [Latin, The same.] Used to indicate a reference that has previously been made and typically abbreviated "id." in legal and scholarly bibliographic citations. ).
The agency has awarded nine additional recycling grants worth $195,000. IDEM's recycling grants, made through the Indiana Recycling Grant Program, help divert all types of re-useable products from landfills.
The fund is replenished by a surcharge of $.50 per ton on garbage placed in Indiana's landfills.
The recipients are: Cedar Lake Cedar Lake may refer to: Cities, towns, townships etc.
- Cedar Lake, Indiana
- Cedar Lake Township, Minnesota in Scott County, Minnesota
- Cedar Lake, New Jersey
- Cedar Lake, Wisconsin, a town in Barron County
Lakes
United States , Lake County, $15,500 to buy a chipper chipper Drug slang An occasional user of illicit drugs. See Recreational drug use Tobacco A popular term for a person who smokes < 5 cigarettes/day, who may be resistant to nicotine dependence or addiction, and often born to non-smoking parents. ; Lake Station, Lake County, $15,500 to buy a chipper; Lowell, Lake County, 14,250, to buy a chipper; Munster, Lake County, $8,200 to buy a chipper; Rising Sun, Ohio County Ohio County is the name of three counties in the United States: - Ohio County, Indiana
- Ohio County, Kentucky
- Ohio County, West Virginia
See also: Ohio Country , $6,800 to buy a box truck to collect organic waste; Community Thrift Store, Henry County, $14,000 to buy a baler and forklift to divert textile waste; Opportunity Enterprises, Porter County, $29,500 to buy and to install a baler, to conduct promotions and to enhance paper recycling Paper recycling is the process of recovering waste paper and remaking it into new paper products. There are three categories of paper that can be used as feedstocks for making recycled paper: mill broke, pre-consumer waste, and post-consumer waste. efforts; The Virtual Scavengers Project, Marion County, $28,700, to buy equipment and conduct promotion for electronics recycling; Sulivan County Solid Waste Management District (SWMD SWMD Special Weapon of Mass Destruction
SWMD Standardized Weighted Mean Difference ), $34,700 to buy equipment to serve an additional four communities, to collect recyclables from a campground and to hold 13 promotions each year; and Monroe County SWMD, $27,500 to buy equipment needed to process cardboard and paper for recycling.
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