Keep Alliance Beautiful announced that it will receive $84,965 from the Nebraska Environmental Trust for the “2021-2022 Recycling Center Operations and Education Program” project. The Trust Board announced funding for the project at its meeting on April 8, 2021 in Lincoln.
The project is one of the 113 projects receiving $18,350,515 in grant awards from the Nebraska Environmental Trust this year. Of these, 42 were new applications and 71 are carry-over projects. Keep Alliance Beautiful (KAB) Board of Directors and Staff wish to continue our recycling and education programs in Box Butte County, Nebraska.
Grant funding from NET is essential in sustaining the recycling center operations and in furthering KAB’s mission to educate, empower, and inspire Box Butte County residents to take greater responsibility for enhancing their community and the environment. KAB operates a recycling center, provides curbside recycling pickup, offers an innovative seniors/shut-ins recycling program, and maintains ten recycling trailers stationed in Alliance and Hemingford, Nebraska.
KAB sends the bulk of recyclable commodities to Western Resources Group in Ogallala, Nebraska, diverting 770,665 lbs. of waste from the local landfill in 2020 and 384,710 lbs. in the first six months of 2020. KAB will continue school programs in 2021-2022 such as KAB Black OPS and the Bulldog Green at the Alliance area schools.
In addition, KAB will encourage citizens to reduce, reuse, and recycle through school presentations, community programs, and projects. Keep Alliance Beautiful is a Keep America Beautiful affiliate in good standing. KAB is able to accomplish our mission with the continued financial support of the City of Alliance, Box Butte County, private donations, and grant funds.
The Nebraska Legislature created the Nebraska Environmental Trust in 1992. Using revenue from the Nebraska Lottery, the Trust has provided over $349 million in grants to over 2,400 projects across the state. Anyone – citizens, organizations, communities, farmers and businesses – can apply for funding to protect habitat, improve water quality and establish recycling programs in Nebraska.
The Nebraska Environmental Trust works to preserve, protect and restore our natural resources for future generations.