Keep Alliance Beautiful Recycling Center Staff, from left, Johnny Mundt, G.O. Thompson, Yvonne and Steve Cornish, Virgil Hardin and Bruce Dobry show off the center’s new 2019 CAT Raka forklift. The machine was delivered in January from Nebraska Machinery Caterpillar with just 33 hours on it. KAB received a $20,000 grant for the forklift from The Nebraska Environmental Trust. The Recycling Equipment Grant from the Nebraska Recycling Council is one of 85 grant projects in 2017 receiving $16.6 million in grant awards from Nebraska Environmental Trust. The Trust is funded by proceeds from the Nebraska Lottery and has awarded more than $265 million to over 2,000 natural resource projects in Nebraska since 1993. The Nebraska Recycling Council is a non-profit, membership organization of public and private organizations, as well as individuals, and has been a recycling advocate for Nebraska since 1980.
