Recycle Ohio Grant Program

The Recycle Ohio Grant Program is administered by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and provides funding to eligible Ohio organizations for recycling, litter prevention, market development, scrap tire, academic institution, and source reduction activities. Ohio EPA will accept applications for the 2027 cycle from September 14, 2026, through November 6, 2026. The program is highly competitive and grants are awarded annually. Funding supports recycling efforts and outreach and education, recycling equipment, conference sponsorships, equipment for collecting and processing recyclables and construction and demolition debris, equipment used to remanufacture recyclable materials into bulk raw material or finished products, expansion of scrap tire processing and product manufacturing capacity, and equipment that promotes reuse practices. The program offers several grant types with different maximum award and match levels. Community and Litter grants provide up to $200,000 with a 25 percent match. Academic Institution grants provide up to $200,000 with a 25 percent match. Funding for construction projects using ground tire rubber is available up to $300,000 with a 100 percent match. Market Development grants provide up to $200,000 with a 100 percent match, Scrap Tire grants provide up to $300,000 with a 100 percent match, and Source Reduction grants provide up to $10,000 with no match. Required matching funds must be cash or credit. In-kind contributions and funds from other grant programs may not be used to satisfy the financial match requirement. Eligible applicants must be Ohio groups in good financial standing with the State and must have no outstanding environmental compliance issues. Eligible groups identified by Ohio EPA include schools, health departments, local governments, nonprofits, park districts, private sector businesses, and solid waste management authorities and districts. Private sector businesses must have a government sponsor. A government sponsor may be a local government entity such as a municipality, solid waste management district, township, or port authority. In addition, an applicant seeking a Recycle Ohio Grant must have any previously funded Recycle Ohio Grant project already closed out before applying, except when a government sponsor is representing cooperating enterprises. Applications may only be submitted through Ohio EPA's Resource Hub. The Resource Hub prompts applicants to log in or create an account if they do not already have one. Applicants then select "Recycle Ohio Grant" to begin the submission process. The application period opens Monday, September 14, 2026, and closes Friday, November 6, 2026. The source separately states that applications requiring financial documentation have a November 12, 2026 due date. No letter of intent, concept paper, pre-proposal, or other pre-application gating requirement is identified in the supplied information. Specific application questions, narrative requirements, evaluation criteria, scoring methodology, or a quantified number of anticipated awards are also not provided in the supplied material. Awards for the 2027 cycle will be made on April 1, 2027, and all awarded projects begin on April 1, 2027. Source Reduction projects are one-year grants and end March 31, 2028. Community and Litter, Academic Institution, Market Development, and Scrap Tire projects are two-year grants and end March 31, 2029. The program is explicitly described as highly competitive, but the supplied information does not provide additional evaluation or selection criteria that applicants can use to determine how proposals will be scored or ranked. The Recycle Ohio Grant Program is awarded on an annual basis. For the stated 2027 cycle, applications open September 14, 2026, the standard application deadline is November 6, 2026, and financial documentation for applications requiring it is due November 12, 2026. Awards and project periods begin April 1, 2027. Questions about the program may be directed to Recycle@epa.ohio.gov. Ohio EPA is located at 50 W. Town St., Suite 700, Columbus, OH 43215, and the agency's general telephone number provided in the source is 614.644.3020. The supplied page also provides an explicit Recycle Ohio Grant Program Factsheet PDF and a link to the Resource Hub used for application submission.

Confirm any previously funded ROG project is closed out before applying, except for the stated government-sponsor exception; verify good financial standing and no outstanding environmental compliance issues; private sector businesses must secure a government sponsor; budget required match as cash or credit and do not use in-kind contributions or other grant funds; account for the program being highly competitive.