E-newsletter highlighting grant deadlines, upcoming workshops and available resources for municipal recycling and solid waste leaders. |
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CT Compost Alliance
Compost Field Trips
The Connecticut Compost Alliance is pleased to present site visits to a variety of compost operations in addition to their webinars. All tours will require pre-registration. Limited space. All are being scheduled in the mornings.
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Food Waste Challenge in Greenwich
A Business Challenge
A Food Waste Challenge provides a unique opportunity for municipalities to raise awareness about food waste by motivating area businesses to adopt new waste reduction strategies over a set period of time. Participants typically receive technical assistance and support throughout the process, identifying goals to work on, and monitoring progress over time. For the communities who organize Food Waste Challenges, there are a variety of benefits, related to environmental, social, and economic factors.
CET and Waste Free Greenwich are working directly with participating businesses to identify how and where food waste is created, set food waste reduction goals, and plan out an approach to achieve those goals. Participating businesses are currently in the planning stage and will move to implementation from May 1st until June 30th. Stay tuned to hear about the results of this challenge!
CET (Center for EcoTechnology) is is under contract with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to help Connecticut businesses and institutions reduce waste. Municipalities interested in helping their food businesses or shopping centers may contact one of CET’s recycling experts at 888-410-3827 or click here to learn more or get started.
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Food Matters Resources from the Natural Resources Defense Council
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2022 HEALTHY COMMUNITIES GRANT PROGRAM
Applications due 5/9/2022
EPA New England’s Healthy Communities Grant Program is currently accepting applications for projects that will benefit one or more New England communities. EPA plans to award a total of approximately 15 cooperative agreements. The deadline to submit an application is Monday, May 9, 11:59PM via https://www.grants.gov.
Eligible projects under this program must be located in and/or directly benefit one or more of the “target investment areas” and identify how the proposed project will achieve measurable environmental and/or public health results in one or more of the seven “target program areas.” In 2022, “Target Investment Areas” include: 1) Areas Needing to Create Community Resilience; 2) Environmental Justice Areas of Potential Concern, and/or Sensitive Populations. “Target Program Areas” include: 1) Capacity Building in Minority or Low- Income Populations; 2) Clean, Green, and Healthy Schools; 3) Energy Efficiency; 4) Healthy Indoor Environments; 5) Healthy Outdoor Environments; 6) Pollution Prevention; and 7) Sustainable Materials Management.
Applicants can request up to $30,000 (or up to $40,000 for projects qualifying under the Pollution Prevention or Sustainable Materials Management Target Program Areas). To help answer questions from prospective applicants, the Healthy Communities Grant Program will host two webinars before the proposal package is due.
The information sessions have already past, but can but recordings can be found:
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Upcoming EPA GRANT Webinars
April 28, 2022, 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Learn how to find and successfully apply for EPA grants.
May 5, 2022, 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Learn how to develop budgets and budget narratives in this instructor-led version of EPA’s Developing a Budget online training course.
May 10, 2022, 2:00-3:30 pm ET
Hear from EPA’s Research Triangle Park Finance Center about grant financial management, including how to successfully enroll in the Automated Standard Application for Payments (ASAP) system, properly draw down and account for funds, make adjustments in ASAP, submit financial reports, and financially close out a grant.
Past Webinars
January 26, 2022
This high-level webinar covered topics related to finding and applying for grants as well as the basics of managing a grant award. Details about this webinar and previous offerings are available from the link above.
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Tracking Solid Waste Generation in Your Community
A Sustainable CT Webinar with Eligibility to Earn Points
June 14, 2022
10:00am - 11:00am
Wondering how you calculate residential solid waste disposed per person and how you can use this data to reduce solid waste generation in your town? Join us to hear from Jennifer Weymouth of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection as she walks attendees through the steps to calculate your residential solid waste disposed per person and meet the requirements of Sustainable CT’s action 9.1.1. Ginny Walton, Recycling Coordinator for the Town of Mansfield will share insights about why this information is important, and how a community can use it to reduce waste.
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Webinar Series: Government Support for Community Composting
Institute for Local Self Reliance is hosting a webinar series for local government representatives interested in reducing and recycling wasted food and curious how tospur community-scale composting in their communities. Includes examples of how municipalities formed public-private partnerships with a community-oriented composter or micro hauler.
Join these virtual events to learn how cities are providing community-scale composting with a wide range of support including:
- Establishing community composting at urban gardens,
- Training community members on how to compost successfully,
- Funding equipment for small sites,
- Funding staff at existing nonprofit organizations,
- Incorporating community composting into climate action strategies and other plans,
- Granting access to land, and
- Awarding major contracts for curbside and drop-off food scraps collection.
WEBINAR SCHEDULE
Fee: $20 per webinar
Free for local government! (use code LOCGOV)
A recording of each webinar will be made available to those who register.
Wednesday, May 4th, 1 – 2:30 p.m. Register here.
Government Support for Community Composting Part 2: Food Scrap Collectors & Composters with Municipal Contracts Wednesday, June 8th, 1 – 2:30 p.m. Register here.
Government Support for Community Composting Part 3: Cities and Counties with Public-Private Partnerships Thursday, June 23rd, 1 – 2:30 p.m. Register here.
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CT Compost Alliance 2022 Compost Series:
2022 Webinar and Field Trips
Composting Basics and the Science of Compost, Mar 23, 2022 Recording here
Farm Composting/BioChar in Compost,
Large/Municipal and Commercial Scale Composting, Apr 6, 2022 Recording here
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National Recycling Coalition's
How & When to Apply for Federal Funding, March 16, 2022
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Compost Promotion this Earth Day
download and print
RecycleCT Wizard App has more composting terms and items!
This Earth Day, RecycleCT is promoting the benefits of composting. A number animated shorts will be promoting composting April - May 2022 and soon after posted on RecycleCT's webpage.
For now, Celebrate Earth All Year Long! that promotes composting can be downloaded and printed as a flyer (8 1/2 x 11) or poster (11 X 18) from the RecycleCT webpage www.recyclect.com/rsources.
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Missed the last Newsletter or recent Webinar?
Check out the
on the CT DEEP webpage.
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Upcoming Events:
APRIL 2022
April 20, 2022 - 1:00pm - Food Waste Reduction Strategies & Tools for Businesses and Institutions Webinar Register here. Hosted by NERC and NEWMOA.
April 28, 2022 - 2:00pm - Growing your Career in the Compost Industry Webinar Register here. Hosted by U.S. Composting Council.
MAY 2022
May 2 - 6, 2022 - 16th Annual Vermont Organics Recycling Summit. More information here. Virtual. Hosted by Composting Association of Vermont, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources and VT Department of Environmental Conservation.
May 3, 2022 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm - Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Gas Cylinders webinar. Register here. Presented by NEWMOA and NERC.
May 10-12, 2022 - 2022 Food Waste Solutions Summit. Minneapolis, MN. Register here. Presented by ReFED. $
May 16-17, 2022 - 2022 NRRA Annual Conference: What's Next: Rethinking Resource Recovery, Manchester, NH Register here. Hosted by NRRA. In-person. $
JUNE 2022
June 1, 2022 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm - Purchasing Standards for Low Carbon Concrete webinar. Register here. Presented by NEWMOA and NERC.
June 8, 2022 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm - Government Support for Community Composting Part 2: Food Scrap Collectors & Composters with Municipal Contracts Webinar. Register here. Hosted by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. $ Free to local government (use code LOCGOV)
June 9, 2022 - 8:30am - 1:00pm - Connecticut Recyclers Coalition Annual Conference, CT MIRA Trash Museum. Registration coming soon. Hosted by the CT Recyclers Coalition. In-person. $
June 14, 2022 - 10:00am - 11:00am - CTracking Solid Waste Generation in Your Community webinar. Register here. Hosted by Sustainable CT, Eligibility to Earn Points.
June 14, 2022 - 1:00pm - Avoiding Contamination in Food Waste Feedstock for Composting webinar. Register here. Presented by NEWMOA and NERC.
June 23, 2022 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm - Government Support for Community Composting Part 3: Cities and Counties with Public-Private Partnerships webinar. Register here. Hosted by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. $ Free to local government (use code LOCGOV)
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