This agreement provides funding from the infrastructure investment and jobs act (IIJA)

EPA's consumer recycling education and outreach (REO) grant program will fund a range of projects that will increase waste prevention activities, increase the collection of recyclable materials and program participation rates, and decrease contamination of the recycling stream, fund projects that focus on commonly recycled materials such as municipal solid waste (e.g., plastics, aluminum, paper, glass, etc.), including food waste and organics, and/or fund projects and provide tools and technical assistance that will lead to long-term, sustained change, benefits, and support beyond the life of the grant. The purpose of this award is to enhance the city of long beach's efforts to meet the REO grants elements. Specifically, the city of long beach will increase the collection and diversion rates for recycling and organics by informing and educating long beach residents about the new organics curbside collection program and promoting food waste prevention and waste reduction. The city of long beach will decrease contamination in recycling and organics programs by providing information about the materials that are accepted in residential trash, recycling, and organics curbside bins. The city of long beach will secure multi-lingual outreach that can reach all long beach residents by generating outreach materials and strategies culturally appropriate to long beach's spanish, tagalog, and khmer-speaking communities and conducting in-person events and door-to-door outreach in english, spanish, tagalog, and khmer. Finally, the city of long beach will empower long beach residents to be ambassadors of recycling in their community by hiring, training, and empowering long beach residents to teach their community how and why to recycle to generate long-lasting behavior change.activities:the activities to be performed are increasing the collection and diversion rates for recycling and organics by informing and educating long beach residents about the new organics curbside collection program and promoting food waste prevention and waste reduction. Decrease contamination in recycling and organics programs by providing information about the materials that are accepted in residential trash, recycling, and organics curbside bins. Secure multi-lingual outreach that can reach all long beach residents by generating outreach materials and strategies culturally appropriate to long beach's spanish, tagalog, and khmer-speaking communities and conducting in-person events and door-to-door outreach in english, spanish, tagalog, and khmer. Finally, empower long beach residents to be ambassadors of recycling in their community by hiring, training, and empowering long beach residents to teach their community how and why to recycle to generate long-lasting behavior change. Specific activities include: conducting three formal RFP bid processes, gathering community input to influence the project plan and materials, developing outreach material and determine door-to-door routes, piloting outreach materials, conducting food waste prevention and waste reduction outreach, hiring and training outreach ambassadors, developing baseline data, conducting a door to door campaign, gathering measurement data post outreach, analyzing post-outreach data to determine impact of outreach on outcome measures, sharing results, and completing project reporting.subrecipient:the subaward activities are as follow: 1) focus groups ($38,200) a. Community ORG's staff compensation for project consultation and focus group support $7,700 (X4) b. Focus group participant compensation for providing input on outreach materials (9 people at $250 each) - $2,250 (X4) 2) waste prevention outreach ($250,000) a. Organization's staff compensation for subaward administration and reporting - $25,000 b. Planning and hosting at least 16 workshops/ events/ outreach on food wast