Closed · EPA-I-OLEM-ORCR-23-02 · CFDA 66.921 · Discretionary

Consumer Recycling Education and Outreach (REO) Grant Program

Federal grant opportunity posted by Environmental Protection Agency, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$250K-$2M
Award range
Closed
Status
February 15, 2023
Close date
25
Expected awards

The verdict

Consumer Recycling Education and Outreach (REO) Grant Program is a closed discretionary listing from Environmental Protection Agency that offered $250,000 -- $2,000,000 across 25 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 1,487 other opportunities from Environmental Protection Agency.

$250K-$2M
award range
Closed
application status
25
expected awards
66.921
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Consumer Recycling Education and Outreach is closed (last close February 15, 2023). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Environmental Protection Agency still indexes 1,487 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed February 15, 2023

Posted Nov 14 Closes Feb 15

Est. Total Funding

$30,000,000

Expected Awards

25

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

The EPA is seeking applications proposing projects that inform the public about new or existing residential or community recycling programs; provide information about the recycled materials that are accepted as part of a residential or community recycling program that provides for the separate collection of residential solid waste from recycled material; and increases collection rates and decreases contamination in residential and community recycling programs. Projects will improve consumer recycling education with the goal of achieving separate collection of recycled material across the nation, maximizing the efficient reuse of materials, and identifying strategies that otherwise result in an increase in volume of recyclable materials. The EPA also recognizes and encourages applications that demonstrate evidence-based messaging and strategies associated with effective communication campaigns designed to increase prevention, reuse, repair,remanufacture, recycling, anaerobic digestion, and composting in communities and/or decrease contamination in the recycling stream. This approach to community-informed messaging goes beyond education only by emphasizing researching the audience, building trust, and reducing audience barriers while emphasizing benefits for desired action.In addition, the EPA is seeking applications for recycling education and outreach projects that address environmental justice concerns and focus predominantly on addressing the disproportionate and adverse human health, environmental, climate-related and other cumulative impacts, as well as theaccompanying economic challenges of such impacts, resulting from industrial, governmental, commercial and/or other actions that have affected and/or currently affect people/communities of color, low income, tribal, and indigenous populations, and if applicable, other vulnerable populations, such asthe elderly, children, and those with pre-existing medical conditions.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · EPA-I-OLEM-ORCR-23-02

Grants.gov marks Consumer Recycling Education and Outreach with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity codes span Environment · Information and Statistics (ENV;IIJ). This eligibility-code string dominates the Environmental Protection Agency book (1,239 peers, 83% of 1,488).

Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

Official Listing on Grants.gov

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Agency Contact

Jessica Oursler U.S. EPA, Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery (MC 5306P) 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

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What to do next

Consumer Recycling Education and Outreach is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

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