The City of Moundville will receive $113,387 from the Alabama Recycling Fund for fiscal year 2027, one of 20 grants totaling nearly $2.5 million announced Monday, Aug. 24, by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
ADEM Director Edward Poolos singled out Moundville when describing the range of this year’s recipients, which he said “range from small cities, such as Moundville, to one of the largest cities, Birmingham, as well large countywide operations such as the Solid Waste Disposal Authority of Baldwin County.”
“What they have in common is they are taking materials that would otherwise go in landfills, or littered along roads, city streets and even our waterways, and making those materials available for productive reuse,” Poolos said. “That is preserving our land and water and protecting our environment.”
The grants were announced during the Alabama Recycling Coalition’s annual conference in Gulf Shores.
They are funded by a $1-per-ton fee on solid waste disposed in Alabama landfills, established by the Solid Wastes and Recyclable Materials Management Act of 2008.
This is the 18th year of the program, which has awarded 339 grants totaling more than $39 million since 2008.
Poolos said the grants matter most to communities with limited budgets.
“It would be easy for them to skip recycling and just dispose of all the garbage they collect in landfills, which wastes resources,” he said. “This program incentivizes them to take that extra step toward the reuse.”
Elsewhere in the region, the West Alabama Recycling Partnership, a Tuscaloosa-based consortium that includes the City of Tuscaloosa, the University of Alabama, the Tuscaloosa County Parks and Recreation Authority and Shelton State Community College, received $331,658, the second-largest award on the list.
The City of Northport received $243,911.
No other Hale County entity was among the recipients.
