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Local Solid Waste Grant Recipients

By Greg Bebermeyer

04/02/2014

(KMZA)-- Two area schools and the city of Corning are among solid waste grant recipients for 2014 announced by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment Bureau of Waste Management.

The agency says the city of Corning has been awarded two waste tire recycling grants totaling nearly $17,000. One grant will be used to purchase loose fill rubber mulch for a 52-hundred square foot playground for the Corning City Park. The other grant will be used to purchase eight picnic tables and 8 benches for the Park.
More than $480,000 was awarded in waste tire recycling grants. The grants are funded through a 25-cent tax paid on the purchase of new tires.

Twenty-two Kansas schools—including the Wetmore Academic Center and Frankfort High school—were awarded Green Schools grants from the Bureau of Waste Management. The Wetmore school was awarded a just over 29-hundred dollar grant for field trips, recycling containers and composting. Frankfort High School will receive a nearly 24-hundred dollar grant for the purchase of recycling containers. The grants are funded by a $1 per ton state landfill fee.

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