Governor Beshear has announced 6-point-2 million dollars in grants aimed at expanding recycling, reducing solid waste and improving household hazardous waste handling. One recipient is the Boyle County Solid Waste and Recycling Center. Director Angela Muncy said the $575,000 grant will allow her to purchase several pieces of equipment, including a mega-mini glass pulverizer.
“It'll break it down into sand. You don't have to worry (about) it being a marketable value, because people can come take that sand. They can mix it in their soil, their flower beds, they're using it in blacktop in places.”
Muncy said she’s also excited about being able to buy a machine that will densify a product she hates – Styrofoam.
“It basically melts it down, and it will come out in like hard blocks that you just either, you know, you sit on a pallet, then you find a market for it, of course, like you do everything else. They basically just reuse it into other plastic.”
According to the state Energy and Environment Cabinet, the grants require a 25 percent local match, which can be “in kind” labor, educational activities or advertising to promote recycling.
