Indiana agency awards grants.

Twelve Indiana communities and one non-profit agency will receive recycling grants from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM).

Thomas Easterly, IDEM commissioner, says of the grant recipients, "These communities have taken the initiative to establish recycling programs, which have diverted usable materials from going to landfills and put money back into the economy."

The recipients are:

* City of Anderson, $20,000 to buy a bagger machine and to assist with education/promotion costs;

* City of Crown Point, $25,000 for a knuckle boom loader; Town of Dyer, $25,000 to buy a truck;

* City of Greendale, $10,500 to buy recycling containers;

* City of Hammond, $5,000 for printing costs and education/promotional material;

* City of Lafayette, $50,000 to buy a recycling truck;

* City of Seymour, $50,000 to buy a horizontal baler;

* City of Winchester, $48,000 to buy a grinder;

* Town of Schererville, $34,000 to buy a leaf collector and a leaf vacuum/street sweeper;

* Jasper County, $25,000 for a forklift, two vertical balers and six self-tipping hoppers;

* Pike County Solid Waste Management District, $15,000 for a truck and education and promotion costs;

* Randolph County Solid Waste Management District, $8,400 to buy a used oil recycling collection container, roll-off container and material handling equipment; and

* Marion High School, $1,000 for recycling containers and education/promotion costs.