Twenty-five governments, businesses, schools, and nonprofits in central Ohio are receiving $1.5 million in Recycle Ohio Grants. Funding will provide litter prevention and cleanup programs, education and outreach, scrap tire collections, recycling market development, and expansion of recycling processing facilities and infrastructure.
Statewide, Ohio EPA is issuing more than $5.9 million in grant funding to 147 recipients, with more than $2.9 million specifically for community and litter prevention programs. Projects funded for program year 2025 include:
| City of Columbus (Franklin) | $100,000 | Outreach and Education, Organic Material Diversion |
| City of Columbus Recreation and Parks (Franklin) | $49,160 | Special Venue Recycling |
| City of Delaware (Delaware) | $200,000 | Curbside Recycling |
| City of Dublin (Delaware, Franklin, Union) | $76,000 | Recycling Equipment |
| City of Newark (Licking) | $6,674 | Source Reduction Equipment |
| Columbus Ohio Fire Fighters Museum (Franklin) | $3,250 | Source Reduction Equipment |
| Delaware, Knox, Marion, Morrow County Solid Waste District | $39,925 | Tire Amnesty Events |
| Franklin County Auditor’s Office | $10,000 | Special Venue Recycling |
| Franklin County Department of Job & Family Services | $10,000 | Source Reduction Equipment |
| Franklin County Historical Society (DBA COSI) | $10,000 | Source Reduction Equipment |
| Friendship Village of Dublin (Franklin) | $9,478 | Source Reduction Equipment |
| Kids Care Elementary School (Franklin) | $5,314 | Source Reduction Equipment |
| Lancaster-Fairfield Community Action Agency (Fairfield) | $37,200 | Recycling Equipment, Tire Amnesty Events, Household Hazardous Waste Collection |
| Liberty Tire Recycling (Franklin) | $250,000 | Scrap Tire Manufacturing and Processing Equipment |
| Licking County Recycling | $9,600 | Tire Amnesty Events |
| Local Matters (Franklin) | $121,040 | Organic Material Diversion |
| Morrow County Commissioners/Morrow County Recycling | $19,700 | Outreach and Education |
| Mount Carmel Health System Foundation (Franklin) | $9,684 | Source Reduction Equipment |
| Mount Vernon Nazarene University (Knox) | $9,320 | Source Reduction Equipment |
| Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (Franklin) | $20,000 | Waste Reduction Equipment |
| Ohio Department of Natural Resources (Franklin) | $10,000 | Source Reduction Equipment |
| Ohio EXPO Center (Franklin) | $50,000 | Recycling Equipment |
| Ohio State University (Franklin) | $170,496 | Recycling Equipment |
| St. Charles Preparatory School (Franklin) | $11,795 | Recycling Equipment |
| St. Francis DeSales High School (Franklin) | $16,000 | Recycling Equipment |
| Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (Franklin) | $200,000 | Construction and demolition debris collection and processing equipment |
| Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (Franklin) | $77,690 | Organic Material Diversion |
| Trinity United Methodist Preschool (Franklin) | $10,000 | Source Reduction Equipment |