The Bandera County Committee on Aging, Inc. (dba Silver Sage), a non-profit organization, was awarded a $704,736 Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Reduce, Reuse, Recycling Education and Outreach (REO) Grants program (CFDA 66.921). The funding will support a comprehensive education and outreach campaign to increase waste prevention, boost recycling participation rates, and reduce contamination in the recycling stream across 14 rural and low-income communities in a four-county region of Texas. Key activities include hosting 72 community events, distributing educational resources, conducting door-to-door outreach, and forming a coalition of community organizations to expand recycling infrastructure in the Hill Country region. The project aims to deliver bilingual educational materials, an advertising campaign, and volunteer/community ambassador training to benefit the 22,770 residents in the targeted service area, of which 17.1% have no health insurance, 13.8% live below the poverty line, and 21.3% are Hispanic with a median household income of $28,800.
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