The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s Rehabilitation Environmental Action Plan recently approved grant amounts totaling $87,565 for multiple applicants in the Covered Electronic Devices Recycling Grant Program. Established in 2008 under REAP, the CED Program requires that manufacturers register their brands with the state. The fees collected from this program allow counties and municipalities to apply for CED grants to conduct electronic collection events and to support ongoing collection programs.
The goals of the program are to establish a registration process for manufacturers of covered electronic devices, to determine if manufacturers have adopted or implemented a free take-back/recycling program for their products and to award recycling grants to counties and municipalities for recycling or other programs that divert covered electronic devices from the waste stream.
The City of Weston was recently notified by the state Department of Environmental Protection that it is the recipient of a 2021 REAP Recycling Assistance Grant of $12,721.60. The grant will be used to assist with excavation, site work, concrete and fencing to support the expansion of the city’s recycling program. The scope of the project is to move recycling bins to a permanent location beside Mountain State Waste on North Main Avenue.
City officials extended a thank you to JP at Mountain State Waste, Weston Councilwoman Sherry Rogers, Judy Piercy, Steve Rogers, and Bernie McCourt for their assistance in working on the details to obtain this grant.