2017 Litter Reduction and Recycling Grants, by City |
City | Organization | Program Category | Amount Awarded | Project Description |
Alliance | Keep Alliance Beautiful | Public Education | $56,817 | Fund several community and school educational programs to increase recycling. |
Alliance | Keep Alliance Beautiful | Recycling | $76,918 | Fund public education programs and operate the recycling center in Box Butte County. |
Alma | City of Alma | Recycling | $2,180 | Install fence to keep litter from blowing onto the hiking/biking trail and into Harlan County Lake. |
Beatrice | Keep Beatrice Beautiful, Inc. | Cleanup | $8,295 | Clean up 100 miles and 60 acres. |
Beatrice | Keep Beatrice Beautiful, Inc. | Public Education | $44,949 | Litter and recycling education via advertising and presentations to civic and community organizations and schools. |
Belvidere | Trailblazer Resource Conservation and Development | Recycling | $25,035 | Hold seven household hazardous waste collection events in seven communities/counties over two weekends. |
Burwell | Loup Basin RC&D Council/Keep Loup Basin Beautiful | Public Education | $79,146 | Continuation of litter prevention and recycling education for schools and communities in a nine -county area. |
Chadron | Keep Chadron Beautiful | Cleanup | $6,197 | Clean up 100 miles. |
Chadron | Keep Chadron Beautiful | Public Education | $60,632 | Continuation of litter and recycling education programs for schools and participate in community events. |
Chadron | Keep Chadron Beautiful | Recycling | $7,100 | Conduct a one-day electronic waste collection event. |
Columbus | Keep Columbus Beautiful, Inc. | Public Education | $29,082 | Public education and services to increase recycling and prevent litter through local schools and community events. |
Crete | Public Health Solutions | Public Education | $17,480 | Develop and publish 2,500 resource guides (recycling, waste disposal, material exchange, used donations) for five southeast Nebraska counties. |
Fremont | Keep Fremont Beautiful | Public Education | $73,100 | Funds to provide comprehensive education programs for the community and from pre-K to college levels to reduce litter and increase recycling. |
Grand Island | Grand Island Area Clean Community System | Cleanup | $39,051 | Clean up 125 miles and 100 acres. |
Grand Island | Grand Island Area Clean Community System | Public Education | $65,682 | Fund a variety of programs to reduce litter and increase recycling in the community. |
Gretna | City of Gretna | Recycling | $43,455 | Purchase a brush chipper to produce chips for city landscaping. |
Hastings | Woodwards Disposal Service, Inc | Recycling | $86,148 | Truck chassis with rear load and hopper to collect cardboard, newspaper, and office paper through curbside recycling and commercial pickups. |
Kearney | University of Nebraska at Kearney | Recycling | $22,973 | Purchase a two-cubic-yard compactor and 40-cubic-yard receiver box with hook to hold recyclables collected on the UNK campus. |
Kimball | Keep Kimball Beautiful | Public Education | $25,300 | Support of programs in Kimball schools and continue community-wide recycling education. |
Kimball | Keep Kimball Beautiful | Recycling | $73,710 | Operating expenses for the Kimball Recycling Center for Kimball County residents. |
Lexington | Keep Lexington Beautiful | Public Education | $32,934 | Continue weekly recycling education program in four elementary schools and one middle school; tailored for diverse (40-country) student body. |
Lexington | Keep Lexington Beautiful | Recycling | $9,791 | New signs for four recycling trailers, and new paint for two of them. |
Lincoln | Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department | Cleanup | $19,000 | Clean up 240 miles and 700 acres. |
Lincoln | Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department | Public Education | $121,366 | Education programs to encourage appropriate waste management practices throughout the community. Purchase 10 ashtray receptacles and four recycling containers. |
Lincoln | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Public Education | $15,356 | Establish "Improving Recycling and Composting Education through Participation" project. Purchase 5,000 aluminum water bottles and reusable bags for students attending two UNL programs. |
Lincoln | Lincoln Children's Museum | Public Education | $5,450 | Funding for "Green Halloween." Purchase recycled trick or treat bags and recycle bins for the Museum. |
Lincoln | Solid Waste Management | Recycling | $170,710 | 150' x 50' x 10" concrete pad and used excavator to better handle and divert 15-20,000 tons of asphalt roof shingles from the Bluff Road Landfill. |
Lincoln | Nebraska Farmers Union | Recycling | $40,000 | Used tractor and mixer trailer to chop up larger pieces of organic material (corn cobs) to make larger amounts of compost. |
Lincoln | WasteCap Nebraska | Recycling | $125,790 | Work with businesses and the community to provide educational outreach technical assistance for zero-waste activities. Purchase two computers. |
Louisville | Keep Cass County Beautiful | Cleanup | $1,500 | Clean up 14 miles and 80 acres. |
Louisville | Keep Cass County Beautiful | Public Education | $59,215 | Educate Cass County citizens and students about litter prevention, recycling, waste management, and composting. Continue "loan a bin" recycling program. |
Morrill | Village of Morrill | Recycling | $33,900 | Purchase a wood chipper to trim trees near power lines in Morrill. Mulch will be used for landscaping, golf courses and parks. |
Norfolk | Keep Norfolk Beautiful | Public Education | $21,670 | Recycling education programs in the schools and community of Norfolk. |
North Platte | Keep North Platte and Lincoln County Beautiful | Cleanup | $17,443 | Clean up 320 miles. |
North Platte | Keep North Platte and Lincoln County Beautiful | Public Education | $85,909 | Continue community recycling programs and increase participation through education. |
North Platte | Keep North Platte and Lincoln County Beautiful | Recycling | $34,428 | Administer programs to increase the collection of recyclables, e-waste, and potential household hazardous waste from Lincoln County for proper disposal and reuse. |
Ogallala | Keep Keith County Beautiful, Inc. | Cleanup | $3,000 | Clean up 60 miles. |
Ogallala | Keep Keith County Beautiful | Public Education | $84,210 | Educate residents and visitors on litter reduction and to increase recycling in Keith County. Expand to Arthur, Deuel, Grant and Perkins Counties. |
Ogallala | Keep Keith County Beautiful, Inc. | Recycling | $43,964 | Purchase four recycling containers to add to the collection system at Lake McConaughy. |
Omaha | Keep Omaha Beautiful | Cleanup | $18,000 | Online follow-up survey of volunteers. Clean up 20 miles. |
Omaha | Keep Omaha Beautiful | Public Education | $71,000 | Conduct community outreach and classroom activities on recycling and litter reduction. |
Omaha | Habitat for Humanity of Omaha Inc. | Recycling | $53,934 | Purchase a box truck to increase ability to pick up donations for two ReStores in Omaha. |
Omaha | Angels on Wheels | Recycling | $82,200 | Hold 22-23 strategically located electronic collection events in the Metro Omaha area. |
Schuyler | Keep Schuyler Beautiful | Recycling | $40,033 | Fund expenses to operate the Colfax Co. Recycling facility for residents of Schuyler and Colfax County. |
Scottsbluff | Keep Scottsbluff Gering Beautiful | Cleanup | $10,000 | Clean up 100 miles. |
Scottsbluff | Keep Scottsbluff Gering Beautiful | Public Education | $25,333 | Funding for community recycling/anti-littering programs for Scottsbluff and Gering. |
Scottsbluff | Keep Scottsbluff Gering Beautiful | Recycling | $47,530 | Fund two pharmaceutical take-back events and other recycling projects. |
Sidney | Keep Sidney Beautiful | Recycling | $43,554 | Public education to reduce litter in the community and decrease recyclable items going to the landfill. |
South Sioux City | Keep Northeast Nebraska Beautiful | Public Education | $63,264 | Public education in the community and schools to reduce litter, including waterway litter, and promote recycling. |
Springfield | Soil Dynamics Composting Farm Inc. | Recycling | $47,500 | Food waste garbage truck, to be modified to pull a garbage can washing system trailer to collect food waste from Louisville schools. |
Steinauer | Steinauer Community Club | Cleanup | $500 | Clean up 10 miles. |
Tekamah | Papio Missouri River NRD | Recycling | $24,500 | Conduct four electronic waste collection events to be held in: Washington, Burt, Thurston, and Dakota counties. |
Valentine | Middle Niobrara NRD | Recycling | $100,215 | Trailer with spreader to increase amount of woody biomass chips applied on fields and tree rows. Tree removal will increase grazing and grassland, and reduce fire risk. |
Verdigre | Village of Verdigre | Recycling | $7,350 | Funds to manage the recycling program for Verdigre, and parts of Knox, Holt, and Boyd counties. |
Wakefield | ESU#1 | Cleanup | $4,000 | Cleanup 20 miles and 300 acres. |
Wisner | City of Wisner | Recycling | $51,188 | Fund 48' x 60' concrete slab, perimeter blocks and fabric hoop building cover to store wood chips for gasifier equipment and recycled cardboard. |
York | Four Corners Health Department | Recycling | $32,100 | Hold a one-day household hazardous waste collection event in Seward and in York counties. |