Improve Your Local Environment with a Waste
Prevention and Recycling Grant
Seattle Public Utilities Accepting Applications for Grants to
Improve Use of Precious Resources

For immediate release: 9/11/08
For more information, Contact:
Seattle Public Utilities Customer Service, (206) 684-3000

SEATTLE — Have you thought about ways of preventing unnecessary waste from going to the landfill? Here’s chance to put your ideas and energy into action by applying for a Waste Prevention and Recycling Matching Grant from Seattle Public Utilities.

In its first year, the grant program is designed to provide incentives for the community to partner with the city to reduce the amount of materials going into the landfill through Seattle’s solid waste system.

Non-profit organizations, community groups, businesses, hunger agencies, schools and other organizations and individuals may apply. Projects must be located within the City of Seattle or have a direct impact on Seattle’s waste stream. Projects can last up to 12 months.

Grants range from a minimum of $2,000 to a maximum of $25,000. Recipients match the city’s investment by 50 percent with a mix of donated time, materials, professional services, cash, and other non-City grants. Up to $200,000 in total funding is available for the grant program.

There are two deadlines to submit applications:

• If you are ready and eager to start your project and start receiving funding in 2008, apply by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 8.

• For projects starting in 2009, apply by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 5.

Visit the Waste Prevention & Recycling Matching Grant website for more details. You can also contact Veronica Fincher, (206) 233-2534 or veronica.fincher@seattle.gov, for program questions.

In addition to providing more than 1.4 million customers in the Seattle metropolitan area with a reliable water supply, SPU provides essential sewer, drainage, solid waste and engineering services that safeguard public health, maintain the City’s infrastructure and protect, conserve and enhance the region's environmental resources.

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