RecycleCT, a state-chartered foundation that wants to increase recycling rates, has launched its first program.
The foundation will offer small grants to K-12 public schools for promoting and encouraging recycling.
“While RecycleCT is targeting schools for its first grant initiative we will soon be offering grants in other important sectors,” Robert Klee, foundation chairman and commissioner of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, said in a statement.
RecycleCT was created by the legislature last year in a bill that also set a goal for the state’s recycling diversion rate of 60 percent within a decade. The rate is currently between 25 percent and 30 percent.
Besides Klee, RecycleCT includes Tim Sullivan, deputy commissioner of the Department of Economic and Community Development; Tim DeVivo of Willimantic Waste; Frank Antonacci of Murphy Road Recycling; attorney Ron Goldstein; and Brian Paganini of Quantum BioPower.
