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MassDEP details 2024 grant wins, expands microgrant minimums and readies 2025 cycles
Summary
MassDEP staff summarized 2024 grant awards across microgrants, the Sustainable Materials Recovery Program and the Recycling and Reuse Business Development Grant, announced updated rules for 2025 applications, and pointed to upcoming application and webinar dates.
John Silver, who leads MassDEP’s commercial waste reduction outreach, opened the Solid Waste Advisory Committee’s winter meeting with a series of funding updates and timelines for applicants.
Janice Pare of MassDEP’s municipal waste reduction branch said the agency retooled its Reduce, Reuse, Repair microgrant in 2024 by instituting a deadline and raising the maximum award. "We awarded 23 grants, which is more than we had ever in 1 single year previously," Pare said, noting MassDEP budgeted $125,000 but ultimately awarded $140,000. She described projects awarded in 2024 — from a ramp‑reuse program funded at $9,200 to a Lawrence General Hospital reusable foodware pilot awarded $10,000 — and said the 2025 microgrant will…
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