Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling Grants for Political Subdivisions
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Overview
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provides $275,000,000 total from Fiscal Year 2022 to Fiscal Year 2026 for grants authorized under the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act. Projects funded through the funding opportunity opportunity:
- Implement the “Building A Circular Economy For All” strategy series.
- Improve local post-consumer materials management programs, including municipal recycling.
- Make improvements to local waste management systems.
EPA is not currently accepting applications for the SWIFR grants for Political Subdivisions funding opportunity.
Applications for Round One of this opportunity opened in 2022, with 25 grants awarded in 2024 and 2025. Applications for Round Two of this opportunity opened in 2024. On December 12, 2025, EPA announced 17 additional selectees for the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling Grants for Political Subdivisions. Find out about the 2023 grant recipients and 2025 selectees.
Eligible Applicants
The entities eligible to apply for the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling Grants for Political Subdivision are political subdivisions of states and territories. EPA considers counties, cities, towns, parishes, and similar units of governments that have executive and legislative functions to be political subdivisions of states and territories.
Eligible Activities
Materials and waste streams within scope of this funding opportunity include municipal solid waste, including plastics, organics, paper, metal, glass, and construction and demolition debris. This also includes the management pathways of source reduction, reuse, sending materials to material recovery facilities, composting, and industrial uses (e.g., rendering, anaerobic digestion), and feeding animals.
All applications must achieve one or more of the following objectives:
- Establish, increase, expand, or optimize collection and improve materials management infrastructure.
- Fund the creation and construction of tangible infrastructure, technology, or other improvements to reduce contamination in the recycled materials stream.
- Establish, increase, expand, or optimize capacity for materials management.
- Establish, improve, expand, or optimize end-markets for the use of recycled commodities.
- Demonstrate a significant and measurable increase in the diversion, recycling rate, and quality of materials collected for municipal solid waste.
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