These grants are offered to local government (townships, cities, villages, counties), schools, and nonprofit organizations to initiate or expand recycling, to purchase recycling or waste containers, to purchase items made from recycled content materials, to perform cleanup activities, or to conduct an approved demonstration project. 

Congratulations to all our 2024 Go Green Grant Awardees!

Finished your project? Download the 2024 Go Green Grant Closeout paperwork to get reimbursed.

Instructions for 2024 Go Green Community Grant

Grant awardees need to spend funds on items identified in your grant application. Any significant changes need to be approved by the District. Please email Jennifer Jones for more information. 

All Go Green Grant awardees have until June 30, 2025 to complete their project and submit reimbursement paperwork. 

The Geauga-Trumbull Solid Waste District offers over 40 locations for residents to bring their bottles, jugs, jars, cans, and cardboard for recycling. The District partners with local governments, schools, and other entities to provide that service to the community. We know maintaining a recycling drop-off location can be challenging, and we want to help.

Congratulations to all our 2024 Drop-off Improvement Grant Awardees!

Finished your project? Download the 2024 Drop-off Improvement Grant (DIG) Closeout paperwork to get reimbursed.

Instructions for 2024-2025 DIG application

Grant awardees need to spend funds on items identified in your grant application. Any significant changes need to be approved by the District. Please email Jennifer Jones for more information. 

All Drop-off Improvement Grant awardees will have until June 30, 2025 to complete their project and submit reimbursement paperwork. 

Old, unusable scrap tires can be a blight on community roads, ditches and abandoned property. 

To assist communities in the prevention of illegal dumping of tires, we offer funding to every city, township, and village within the District to host scrap tire collections for their residents. 

Each individual community decides the details of their collections, including date(s), number and types of tires collected, etc. The communities provide us with the details of their proposed collection for the calendar year. We will post a list of all the community tire collections on this page once the list has been compiled, usually sometime in March.  

Contact your community leadership (i.e. trustees, council members) to provide input for how your community will collect tires this year. 

For residents:

Miss your community’s tire collection??

If you are a resident who has missed your local scrap tire collection, most legitimate tire sales stores will accept scrap tires, for a small fee per tire. You can call around to tire stores in your area to see if they will accept your scrap tires, and find out what they will charge. 

Recycling and/or disposing of scrap tires responsibly is expensive. Other than the community collections offered as a free service to residents, ALL tire vendors will charge to dispose of your scrap tires. Avoid the trouble of disposing of scrap tires later by paying for their disposal when you purchase new tires.  

Ohio EPA “No Fault” Program

The Ohio EPA offers assistance in removing 100 or more tires either illegally dumped on public/private property or local roadsides, or on property inherited by someone having no role in the tires being placed on the property. For information about the Ohio EPA’s “No Fault” Scrap Tire Removal Program and to see if your case would be eligible, click here for more information.

Each December, the District hosts a community workshop to explain each of the grants we offer in detail. The workshop can be attended in-person or online. The workshops are recorded and the video recordings from 2022-2024 can be viewed on the District’s YouTube channel.  Check back in October-November 2024 for the workshop date and time covering available 2025 grants.