USREO Grant Program
Consumer Recycling Education and Outreach (REO) Grant Program
- Jurisdiction:
- United States (federal)
- Type:
- Incentives
- Last action:
- Nov 15, 2021
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The REO grant program, funded with $75M through the IIJA (implementing the Save Our Seas 2.0 / RECYCLE Act authority), makes grants to improve the effectiveness of residential and community recycling and composting through public education and outreach, including a national recycling toolkit and campaigns to reduce contamination and wasted food. It attacks the behavioral bottleneck (contamination and low participation) that limits recycling-system yield.
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PRO StructureUnspecified · Consumer Recycling Education and Outreach Coalition, World Wildlife Fund
“On August 25, 2025, EPA awarded a cooperative agreement to the Consumer Recycling Education and Outreach Coalition (the World Wildlife Fund, ReFED, the Waste and Resources Action Programme, The Ad Council, the US Composting Council, and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance).”
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