CAPCOG awarded 13 projects from around the region $274,000 to help fund household hazardous waste and community collection events along with other landfill diversion projects at its February Executive Committee meeting. The projects will take place during the 2024-25 biennium.
“These grants assist local governments in providing their residents with the means to help keep their homes, neighborhoods, and communities clean, beautiful and healthy,” said Ken May, CAPCOG Solid Waste program manager. Of the 13 projects, 12 received full funding and one received partial funding; the latter project could receive additional funding along with four other projects if programmatic savings are realized during the biennium. Ten of the projects were community and household hazardous waste collection events — such events collected 160 tons of material in 2022-23. The three remaining projects pertained to improving recycling operations.
A list of CAPCOG awarded projects can be viewed at https://www.capcog.org/transparency/transparency-reports/. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality still needs to give final approval, which is anticipated by the end of February. CAPCOG also will hold a grant management workshop in late March or early April for communities that will receive the funding.
