Keep Alliance Beautiful will receive $32,749 from the Nebraska Environmental Trust for its “Recycling Education and Center Support” project.
The Trust Board announced funding for the project at its meeting on April 4, 2013 in Lincoln.
The project is one of the 134 projects receiving $24,247,260 in grant awards from the Nebraska Environmental Trust this year.
Keep Alliance Beautiful, Inc. requested partial funding to retain personnel at the recycling transfer center and for educational personnel for three years to help promote recycling in the community of Alliance and Box Butte County. The recycling program falls within the Waste Management section of the Nebraska Environmental Trust category areas. The Center was opened three years ago in part through a prior Nebraska Environmental Trust grant.
Environmental programs operating in the schools and for the benefit of the community and county have been part of the success of the program. KAB will continue educational programming through the three-year period. As KAB’s recycling transfer need grow, keeping the program operational is necessary.
Expectations are that local government agencies will play a larger role in meeting those needs. Currently, the recycling center is housed in a small 18’x75’ (1350 sq. ft.) building. The program is beyond subsistence and ready to grow. Financial assistance is necessary for KAB’s recycling program to grow.
KAB must also continue waste management education focusing on reduction, reusing, and recycling. Additional programs on “closing the loop” and purchasing recycled goods are also important.
The Nebraska Legislature created the Nebraska Environmental Trust in 1992. Using revenue from the Nebraska Lottery, the Trust has provided over $195 million in grants to 1,500 projects across the state.
Anyone – citizens, organizations, communities, farmers, and businesses – can apply for funding to protect habitat, improve water quality and establish recycling programs in Nebraska.
The Nebraska Environmental Trust works to preserve, protect and restore our natural resources for future generations.