Forty-one governments, businesses, schools, and nonprofits in northeast Ohio are receiving $1.6 million in Recycle Ohio Grants. Funding will provide litter prevention and cleanup programs, education and outreach, scrap tire collections, recycling market development, and expansion of recycling facilities and infrastructure.
Statewide, Ohio EPA is issuing more than $5.9 million in grant funding to 147 recipients, with more than $2.9 million specifically for community and litter prevention programs.
Some of the larger projects funded for program year 2025 include:
- Ashtabula County Commissioners – $10,000 – Drop-off recycling, tire amnesty events, household hazardous waste collection
- City of Elyria – $136,469 – Organic material diversion
- City of Lakewood – $200,000 – Curbside recycling
- Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District – $81,000 – Organic material diversion
- Keep Akron Beautiful – $76,410 – Keep America Beautiful renewal fee, litter clean up events
- Medina City School District – $300,000 – Scrap tire for civil engineering or construction projects
- North Olmsted City Schools – $86,363 – Scrap tire for civil engineering or construction projects
- Summit Akron Solid Waste Authority – $200,000 – Organic material diversion
Published September 2025
