Recipients include Bluffton Exempted Village Schools and Village of Bluffton

COLUMBUS __ Local governments, businesses, and nonprofit organizations throughout northwest Ohio are receiving $1.7 million this year in grants from Ohio EPA to implement recycling, litter prevention, market development, and scrap tire recycling programs.

Statewide, Ohio EPA is issuing more than $7.5 million in grant funding to 159 recipients, with more than $3.8 million specifically for community and litter prevention programs. 

Local governments and other entities use these grants for litter collection, education programming, and the disposal of scrap tires through amnesty collection events. All local clean-up efforts involve the work of volunteers and take place on public property.  

Projects approved for funding for program year 2024 include Bluffton Exempted Village Schools, $58,044 for Recycling Equipment and the Village of Bluffton, $8,836 for Water Bottle Refilling Station.

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