Grants for Waste Projects – Want To Look for Money?

Grants for Waste Projects: Where to find them around the World

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Grants for Waste Projects

Some of these Recycling Grants-Waste Plastic, etc. have reached their deadline already. I include them to show where to look for Waste Plastic funding in the future. Read carefully to find closing dates and deadlines.

First some Funding Directories and Grant sources

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You might find Recycling Grants-Waste Plastic that you can try for.

WasteSorted Grants Infrastructure and Community Education 2021–22 (Australia)
Deadline: 13-Sep-21
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Resource Recycling highlights recent industry related grant awards and opportunities. If your company or organization has a funding opportunity to share, contact [email protected] to be included here. From their Grant watch page: >>>There is a whole new set of projects for 2025. Lots and lots of grants of all kinds. These below are examples:

June 21, 2021: The U.S. EPA is accepting applications for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grants to fund sustainable materials management-related technologies. The 2021-22 SBIR Phase I solicitation is aimed at small businesses that seek funding to demonstrate the feasibility of developing and commercializing an innovative technology on a particular topic. In this case, one of those topics is sustainable materials management, covering food waste, the recycling system in general, alternatives to low-value plastics, and low-impact construction materials. Applications are due Aug. 3, 2021. 

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June 8, 2021: The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) and The Recycling Partnership announced $575,000 is available in grants to improve residential recycling. All Michigan community recycling programs are eligible to apply for the funds, which pay for projects to fight contamination through curbside or drop-off programs, according to an EGLE press release. Communities can receive up to $4 per household for curbside programs and $3 per household for drop-off programs. Applications are due Aug. 20, 2021. As of 1 January 2025: there are some Grants listed when searching for “grants for waste projects“.

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May 27, 2021: The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced it is accepting the third round of applications for funding under the Front Range Waste Diversion enterprise and grant program. About $3.5 million total is available for grants to help communities boost recycling, composting and waste reduction. Applications are due at 3 p.m. Mountain time on July 13, 2021.

There were lots. Take a look !

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Waste Prevention Grant Opportunities
StopWaste accepts applications annually for a range of grant opportunities with total funding up to $475k available to both nonprofits and businesses, aimed at increasing individual, business, and community involvement in the prevention of waste in Alameda County. Areas of focus can be on waste prevention, reuse, and recovery of goods and materials, as well as development, marketing, and use of recovered products.

Proposed projects must be located in and/or serve the residents and/or businesses of Alameda County, Oakland, CA, USA. The next application window will open in February 2022.

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recycling grants –
For North America; Canada and the United States

Here is a list we’ve compiled of available recycling grant programs in North America.  If there’s anything we missed, let us know by calling us at 1-866-490-2585 or email [email protected].[this list includes grants in almost every state in the USA and Canada provinces. It is based on WASTE and CLEANUP, almost no plastic. But there are so many!]

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Grants for Waste Projects

for Africa

At WasteAid, we work with communities and policy makers in lower and middle income countries to implement waste management and recycling programmes. WasteAid’s supporters with matched funds from UK.gov are helping to stop plastic pollution in the Cameroon estuary.

Aug 11, 2021 – We’re now halfway through implementing the plastic recycling programme in Douala, Cameroon. Working with local partners, WasteAid is training 164 people to collect and recycle plastic waste in the coastal city of Douala, Cameroon.
Over two years,WasteAid will train unemployed people in the safe and sustainable collection and processing of waste plastics from the Bonaberi district of the city. Each has the opportunity to choose their preferred field of specialism: plastic collection, tile fabrication, waste related community behaviour change, or marketing and sales. After training, these interns will be offered long-term employment with WasteAid’s local business partner REDPLAST and help to expand plastic waste collections to other parts of the city and country.

Partner with WasteAid – by way ofour supporters & matched funds from UK.gov
WasteAid works in partnership with a wide range of organisations. If you would like to partner with WasteAid on a recycling and waste management initiative, please complete the form on this page. So that we can understand more about your organisation and your needs. Thank you.

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recycling grants and an example from the results!

Through our grants and risk capital, The Global Innovation Fund (GIF) supports breakthrough solutions from for-profit firms, non-profit organisations, researchers, and government agencies to maximise their impact and catalyse meaningful change. This Recycling Grants-Waste Plastic project is a successful one.

Through grants, loans (including convertible debt) and equity investments ranging from $50,000 to $15 million, we back innovations with the potential for social impact at a large scale, whether they are new technologies, business models, policy practices, technologies or behavioural insights.
We support innovators at all stages of their life cycle, from start-up and pilot-testing through to larger scale implementation. The innovations we fund can be located in any developing country and can focus on any sector relevant to international development, provided they improve the lives of those living on less than $5 a day.
Applying for Funding
GIF accepts applications on a rolling basis – our window is always open with no deadlines or rounds of funding. Please carefully review the guidance before deciding whether to invest time in preparing an application. Doing so will increase your chances of success. Like: Mr. Green

When I was putting together posts on Africa, the first one was Africa – Please Stay Harmonised With Planet Earth. And I found Mr. Green to mention there.Mr. Green is doing just as I would have hoped. They are developing a system to recycle plastic and other waste all across Africa with the Grant money from GIF and others.

Mr. Green is a recycling business in Kenya that integrates marginalised waste collectors into a fair-trade system. Their advancement has encouraged connections with organizations like Dow Chemicals, EREMA machinery, and they are a member of SolarImpulse’s 1000 solutions!

Updated: Aug 25, 2020
Since 2019 Mr. Green Africa is a member of the Global Innovation Fund portfolio. GIF has recently released its Impact report for 2019 presenting insights and figures of its USD 73 Mio. invested funds into 35 innovative companies & organisations.

Together, GIF and Unilever are learning how to build a tangible channel for replication of the Mr. Green Africa model of inclusivity and productive jobs across companies that rely on sourcing agents in the recycled plastic business. As a result, it is anticipated that these lessons learned in the developing world can be applied in developed markets. [who are struggling with their waste systems.]

Mr. Green offers an in-house end-to-end process for recycling, purchasing directly from their “sourcing agents”; who are waste pickers – some of society’s most marginalised people. Mr Green owns and operates a series of trading hubs across Nairobi where they transact with their “sourcing agents” directly to purchase their collected plastic for onward transfer to the MrGreen manufacturing plant. Here, the collected plastics are processed and sold as post-consumer recycled PCR plastics to plastics manufacturers for use by large fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies, such as Unilever.

Alix Zwane, Global Innovation Fund CEO, said “This is a great investment for GIF – an innovative business with demonstrable returns in terms of financial and social impact. ”
Justin Apsey, Unilever East Africa CEO, said: “Our strategic partnership with Mr. Green Africa has opened new frontiers in confronting the plastic challenge in a more collaborative and sustainable way.”

The demand for Post Consumer Recycled (PCR) plastic
is far outgrowing the supply. Learn whatMr. Green wants to do.
below 3:05 minutes…..

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Scholarship, grants: International college scholarships, grants and fellowships for study at home & international study abroad. Grants, scholarships, and fellowships awarded throughout the year. … 2021 Scholarships & Grants FAQ | Application for Scholarship | How to Apply for a Scholarship | Scholarship Applications 2021-2022

2025 Grants for NGOs and Organisations
Funding Opportunities for Entrepreneurs 2025/2026

Hello and welcome to  Advance-Africa.Com, for African Scholarships and Grants, volunteer in Africa programs & jobs in Africa.
We offer products and services geared towards advancement of Africans.
These include scholarships for African students, development jobs in Africa, internships as well as volunteer in Africa opportunities.
On the scholarships page, you will find links to lists of fellowships, scholarships, grants on different kinds including research grants, and training opportunities available to African students and scholars.

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Grants for Waste Projects

for Australia

recycling grants

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WasteSorted grants open

• $1.15 million in grants available for infrastructure and educational programs to reduce waste and increase material recovery
• Funding builds on $6 million provided through the program since 2017
• Applications close at noon on Monday, 13 September , 2021
• Grants of up to $250,000 per project are available for infrastructure development and up to $50,000 per project for waste avoidance and resource recovery education programs.

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Grants for Waste Projects

for Canada

New projects funded by the Zero Plastic Waste Initiative – 2020

Many addresses to approach in Canada to look for funding of different kinds……………..

From: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Environment and Climate Change Canada informs Canadians about protecting and conserving our natural heritage, and ensuring a clean, safe and sustainable environment for present and future generations. Pollution and waste management

EcoAction Community Funding Program
The application period for EcoAction funding beginning in 2021-22 is now closed.
– now closed, but included
Zero Plastic Waste Initiative – Funds local projects that mobilize Canadians and communities to develop and test solutions to prevent plastics from entering the environment.
Environment and Climate Change Canada funding programs –

Environmental funding
Financial support for environmental projects and for participation in impact assessments.  
Plastic waste and pollution reduction
It is time to take action! We need to change the way we design, produce, use and dispose of plastics. By working with all levels of government, industry and all Canadians, we can have a zero plastic waste future. Together, we can keep plastics in the economy and out of the environment. including:
Zero plastic waste: get involved and find resources
Join us in reducing plastic pollution and reaching our vision of a zero plastic waste future. By making simple changes, you can make an impact. Here are some ideas:
Funding
See recent funding initiatives and find Government of Canada funding opportunities to help support your innovations, business ideas, Recycling Grants-Waste Plastic projects and research related to plastics:

• Plastics science for a cleaner future
• Increasing Knowledge on Plastic Pollution Initiative
• EcoAction Community Funding Programs – see above
• Abandoned Boats Program
• Northern Contaminants Program
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
• Climate finance announcements, Canada – In 2021, Canada doubled its international climate finance commitment to $5.3 billion over the next five years. Below is a list of key announcements as of Nov. 2023.
• Innovation funding and support – Funding and advisory support for research and development (R&D), innovation and commercialization projects. – not directly plastic, but take a look
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

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Grants for Waste Projects

for the EU

Calls for proposals

Calls for proposals are funding opportunities issued by the European Union institutions, agencies and bodies. These are direct financial contributions, known as grants, that are awarded to third-party beneficiaries (e.g., research organisations, public entities, non-governmental organisations, and private companies) to engage in activities that serve EU policies.
Here is an example: Zero-pollution cities
Programme Horizon Europe (HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-01-02)
Call – Changing urban spaces and mindsets to accelerate the transition to climate neutrality

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Europe’s biggest deep-tech investor – The EIC
Craft a proposal for the European Innovation Council-EIC’s *Accelerator

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*EIC Accelerator 2025

Opportunities for Innovators in Climate and Sustainability Solutions
A Program Focused on Impact
The EIC Accelerator is one of the richest funding programmes within the Horizon Europe framework. One of its core objectives is supporting SMEs and startups that achieve significant social, economic and/or climate impacts.  It offers both grant funding and equity investment depending on the applicant’s needs and best fit in the funding type and their stage.
Amongst other criteria, the EIC Accelerator evaluates proposals based on their “Broader Impact,” prioritizing high-impact innovations that align with sustainability and climate action goals. Companies working on transformative solutions in fields such as renewable energy, waste management, and recycling can find a great funding opportunity in this program.

Priority Impacts in the 2025 Work Programme……………….
…dedicates specific attention and funding to priority areas defined under its Challenge Calls, which are updated year by year. The 2025 EIC work programme emphasizes two critical Challenge Calls relevant to companies innovating in climate action, decarbonization, renewable energy, waste management:
Biotechnology-driven Low-emission Food and Feed Production Systems: This Challenge focuses on innovations improving sustainability in agriculture, such as biopesticides, methane mitigation, and waste valorization technologies.
Breakthrough Innovations for Future Mobility: This challenge targets cleaner, smarter transportation systems, including eco-friendly vehicle designs, low-emission fuels, and advanced autonomous transport technologies.

Each challenge has a €50 million budget, offering significant opportunities for projects aligned with these goals. It is definitely worth an applicant’s effort to address these challenges to maximize their chances of success. The 2025 EIC Work Programme document describes them in detail.

Other EC Sustainability Initiatives
Whether your project does or does not match perfectly with one of the Challenge Call objectives, you can still apply under the Open call and highlight your project’s contributions toward other broader EC sustainability initiatives, such as……
● European Green Deal: Achieving climate neutrality by 2050 or its alignment with Green Deal pillars like renewable energy, biodiversity, and sustainable agriculture.
● Fit for 55 Package: How does your project support decarbonization targets for 2030, such as energy-efficient technologies or low-carbon transportation solutions.
● Circular Economy Action Plan: If your innovation involves waste minimization, recycling, etc. emphasize its alignment with this plan and a circular economy.
● Zero Pollution Action Plan: This plan aims to reduce pollution levels in air, water, and soil.
● Farm to Fork Strategy: Projects in sustainable agriculture or food systems can highlight alignment with the EU’s goals for sustainable food production systems.

By connecting your project to these initiatives, you – the applicant will demonstrate your total contribution to the “Broader Impact” of the EU’s goals.

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WELCOME TO EUROACCESS MACRO REGIONS

Your gateway to funding in the EU Macro-Regions
EuroAccess is a free online search tool to support the use of existing funding opportunities to improve economic, social and territorial cohesion in the European Union and its Macro-Regions. Macro-Regional Strategies were initiated by the various EU Member States as a unique integrated framework to strengthen cooperation in geographic areas that face common challenges and to benefit from common opportunities facing the region. From theEuroAccess search engine:

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Grants for Waste Projects

for the UK

A catalyst for positive change

The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) is a not-for-profit company.
WRAP is one of the globe’s leading sustainability charities. Based in the UK and with projects around the world we work with businesses, governments, citizens and charities to make the planet a healthier, safer place.
Grants and investments
We manage grants, loans and investments to help increase the use of recycled materials, growing recycling capacity or overcoming specific market failures by acting as a catalyst to encourage other funders to invest.
We are the delivery partner of choice for governments and grant-awarding bodies due to our track record in awarding public money where it can make the greatest impact. INCLUDING: Recycling Grants-Waste Plastic

WRAP is proud to be partnering with The Royal Foundation in the launch and delivery of
The Earthshot Prize.
(like the “MoonShot” >> The Earthshot)

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Just closed: Reducing plastic waste in the environment: apply for funding

Businesses can apply for a share of £4 million to support innovative ideas that reduce persistent plastic waste in the environment through new alternatives.
Below another Example of: 16 >>now 21 competitions

• Innovate UK Smart Grants: August 2021
  >>> Opens: 26 August 2021, Closes: 6 October 2021
  UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25 million for game-changing and commercially viable R&D innovation that can significantly impact the UK economy. This funding is from Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation.EligibilityThis competition is open to single applicants and collaborations.To lead a project your organisation must be a UK registered:
  • business of any size
  • research and technology organisation (RTO)
  • carry out your research and development (R&D) project activity in the UK
  • intend to commercially exploit the project results from the UK
  • be or involve at least one micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME)

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Developing sustainable plastic packaging: – 2020
Businesses could apply for a share of up to £37 million to support projects that look at ways to radically reduce waste from plastic packaging.

Smart sustainable plastic packaging challenge
Two Funding Opportunities are openting:

>>SSPP demonstrator round 2 (open from February 2021) can provide funding of up to £12 million per project for large-scale commercial demonstrator projects, including first of a kind infrastructure or large-scale commercial trials of new packaging technology or systems.
>>SSPP business-led research and development competition will provide funding of up to £4 million per project.

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The UK Circular Plastics Network (UKCPN) is an activity supported by KTN & UK Research and Innovation, and forms part of the Plastics Research Innovation Fund (PRIF), which is engaging Britain’s best scientists and innovators to help move the country towards more circular economic and sustainable approaches to plastics.
Funding Round-Up Take a look at the latest funding competitions of relevance to organisations and academics working within the field of plastics, that include those for Recycling Grants-Waste Plastic. 

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For the USA

Plastics Innovation Challenge at the DOE

>>The date on this information is December, 2019, HOWEVER, they are open to continued ideas!

U.S. Department of Energy Announces $27 Million in Plastics Recycling Research and Development
Plastics Innovation Challenge Funding Opportunity Announcements
Funding Opportunity for BOTTLE:
Funding Opportunity for Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Program Phase 1
Contact us with feedback, ideas for future topics, or to volunteer to review future proposals. DOE developed Technology Transfer Opportunity subtopics as a way for small businesses to partner with National Laboratories on research and development needed to accelerate the commercialization of National Laboratory inventions.

Notice of Intent for Joint Funding Opportunity to Advance DOE’s Plastics Innovation Challenge
The Plastics Innovation Challenge is managed by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), with funding from EERE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office and Advanced Manufacturing Office.

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World Wide

Alliance to end plastic waste 

We look for impactful and scalable solutions that generate value and move us up the waste hierarchy, helping us to achieve a future free of plastic waste—from the collection and containment of waste, to packaging designs that increase opportunities for circularity, to community action and educational programmes.

Currently we don’t have any Requests-for-Proposals (RFPs) for Recycling Grants-Waste Plastic. Stay tuned for the next RFP launching in the near future.

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Maybe a Crowdfunder?

Precious Plastic Melb: Creative Plastic Recycling
Wastebase – Crowd Monitoring of Plastic Waste
Arugam Bay Beach Cleanup

StartSomeGood is where people get together to change their world. We’re the leading home of cause-driven crowdfunding, innovative partnerships and social entrepreneur education. Whether big or small, if you have an idea to change your world, or want to support people who do, we can help.
Here, you’re a person, not a number. Every project, including Recycling Grants-Waste Plastic, is different so every project receives individual support and feedback. Even better, you become part of a community of cool people doing good, in big and small ways, all around the world. You should know that for us this isn’t just a job. Your success is our purpose. Welcome to the tribe. Start a Project

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Grants for Waste Projects

Feel Free to contact me, if you would like me to search for Grants in your region!

Waste is our Assurance of Future Resources…..

Waste; Our Assurance of future Resources
– posts on the subject:
Hard-To-Recycle Waste – What Do You Have? What Are You Looking For?
WasteRush is Now! Tools to Sell & Buy Waste Commodities!
Wasterush Tools! Right To The Point! like commodities
Waste Online Tools! There Are More Of Them!
Harvesting Waste Ideas. Waste Rushes? NOW!
Industrial Zone – Closed-Loop Networking
Cigarette Butts: Pick Them Up Off The Street!

e-waste recycling
Urban Mining ! – More Important Than Ever
Critical Minerals & Rare Elements! ….. COLOSSAL WASTE RUSH

Municiple Solid Waste (MSW)

“Renewable Energy Stations”- replace Landfills in the Future

Useful Green WASTE Business Ideas That Can Scale To Any Size You Can Use.
Anaerobic Digestion In Full Swing – #1 Waste To Energy?
CNG, LNG, RNG Fuelling Stations – #2 Waste To Energy
#3 Municipal Solid Waste – MSW To BioFuel? Yes!
How To Get More Electricity For Your Community – Worldwide
Landfill Gas Projects Worldwide – – – Clean Up The Air, Now!

water-sanitation-toilets
#1 Leaky Toilets Are Everyones Business!
– series of 7 posts on water, sanitation, toilets

Plastic
Climate Proof Your Oil-Plastic Products! Win the Challenge!
Waste Plastic Upcycle Businesses – Opportunities, Opportunities!
– series of 5+ posts on waste plastic businesses
Jobs! With The Ocean Cleanup INTERCEPTOR™ Business!, +1000+ ECO Jobs!
COVID 19 Waste – Pick It Up Off The Street!
IMPORTANT! What Is The Future of Precious Plastic: UPDATE!

Mushroom / Mycelium
Mycelium In Industry – Ancient And New
– series of 15 posts on Mycelium in Industry

Printing Industry
Eco-Printing & Packaging EQUIPMENT They were the first to turn Circular!

Thoses posts about wastes that need present action!!!
Too Much Methane !
Why We Need To Capture Landfill Gas – – -Right Now!
Wipes – Human Behavior & False Advertising
Job Vacancies In Green Companies < More Now !