To make our communities cleaner and greener places to live, we want to support programs that encourage waste reduction, recycling and cleaning up our neighborhoods. Each January, we offer grants to help financially support these types of programs. Please review each grant to see if your entity is eligible to apply.
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. Grants will have a maximum award amount of $3,500 per application. All organizations will be limited to one application per year. Pre-approved purchases will be reimbursed by the district at completion of project.
Apply for Go Green Grant online
Download the Go Green Grant application
Examples of potential projects (not all-inclusive):
If you have an idea for a project that is not on this list, please CALL to discuss. We are open to new, innovative ideas!
Funding is competitive. Requests may exceed funding, so there is no guarantee your application will be awarded. The applications must be received via email to jenn@startrecycling.com or mail to the District office at 5138 Enterprise Dr., Warren, OH 44481 by Friday, February 17, 2023.
All 2023 Go Green Community Grants awarded can be found here.
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.
We are accepting applications for site improvement funds for your local recycling drop-off site. These grants are offered to local governments (townships, villages, cities and counties), schools and other entities that provide District drop-off recycling site locations.
Apply for Drop-off Improvement Grant (DIG) online
Download the Drop-off Improvement Grant (DIG) application
How much funding can applicants receive?
Applicants can receive up to $15,000 for improvements at their recycling site.
How much funding do applicants have to contribute?
Assistance requires a minimum 10% match from the entity hosting the site.
Examples of potential projects (not all-inclusive):
Funding is competitive. Requests may exceed funding, so there is no guarantee your application will be awarded. The applications must be received via email to jenn@startrecycling.com or mail to the District office at 5138 Enterprise Dr., Warren, OH 44481 by Friday, February 17, 2023.
All 2023 Drop-off Improvement Grants awarded can be found here.
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 city, township, and village governments ONLY:
Apply for Scrap Tire Grant online
Download the Scrap Tire Grant application
Funding is guaranteed up to the amount budgeted for your community. The applications must be received via email to jenn@startrecycling.com or mail to the District office at 5138 Enterprise Dr., Warren, OH 44481 by Tuesday, February 28, 2023.
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.
A community workshop was help on Tuesday, January 17, 2023 to explain all the grants we offer. Please watch the videos to get further information about the kinds of grants we offer, who is eligible to apply, and how to fill out the applications and reimbursement forms.
SUMMER HOURS:
Trumbull County Collection Facility
5138 Enterprise Blvd. NW
Warren, Ohio 44481
Hours:
Tuesdays and Wednesdays 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Accepting Electronics and Appliances ONLY during winter
***Closed on government holidays and during severe weather.***
Geauga County Collection Facility
12685 Merritt Rd.
Chardon, OH 44024
Hours:
Thursdays and Fridays 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Accepting Electronics, Appliances and Household Hazardous Waste (HHW)
***Closed on government holidays and during severe weather.***
5138 Enterprise Blvd. NW
Warren, Ohio 44481
330-675-2673
800-707-2673