EPA's solid waste infrastructure for recycling (swifr) grants for tribes and intertribal consortia will fund projects that focus on encouraging environmentally sound post-consumer materials…

EPA's solid waste infrastructure for recycling (swifr) grants for tribes and intertribal consortia will fund projects that focus on encouraging environmentally sound post-consumer materials management; fund projects that result in a decrease in the generation of municipal solid waste and/or an increase in the diversion of municipal solid waste from landfills and incineration; and/or fund projects that provide or expand access to source reduction, reuse, recycling, backhaul, anaerobic digestion, and composting for tribes and intertribal consortia. The purpose of this award is to provide funding to the cook inlet tribal council to conduct a project that supports these elements.activities:the activities to be performed will expand materials management infrastructure that supports plastics recycling in five alaska native villages and include: 1) purchasing equipment and supplies such as shredders, extruders, sheet presses, and molds; 2) increase plastics collection, 3) installing equipment; 4) provide training and educational resources; 5) organize community cleanup days, household plastics collections, hold plastic sort-and-clean events, and 6) offer school-based educational activities. Subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:completion of these activities constitute the anticipated deliverables and will result in a cleaner, healthier environment, which will benefit and protect public health in the cook inlet tribal council's community through the improvement of solid waste management.