MISSOURI RECYCLING ASSOCIATION
To lead Missouri toward environmental sustainability through waste reduction and recycling.
2025 CALENDAR OF EVENTS April 16: MORA Board Meeting May 14: MORA Board Meeting May 20-22: MORA Annual Conference 2025 Legislative Calendar
Legislation of Interest:HB191 - Designates the first full week in May as "Missouri Compost Awareness Week" HB1216 - Creates provisions relating to a post-consumer paint recycling program. SB239 - Creates provisions relating to a post-consumer paint recycling program. SB593 - Creates provisions related to battery recycling. 
Learn About Nature’s Climate Champion During International Compost Awareness Week
International Compost Awareness Week is an annual education initiative focused on compost. This year, it takes place May 5 – 11, and the theme is “Compost...Nature’s Climate Champion!” A plug and play social media marketing toolkit is available to help promote the event. Learn about ICAW. Recycling Contamination Brochure Templates
MORA's Printable Recycling & Contamination Brochure - Click here! Example: City of Waynesville's Contamination Brochure - Click here! MORA's Targeted Material Resource Guides
Thank you to everyone for your contributions to your communities, and to this organization! Missouri 20-year progress
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Tools: Kits to Fight Contamination
We continued our statewide work in Massachusetts, fighting contamination in six more communities and training Bay State staffers to deploy our approach for years to come. Together with the Massachusetts Department for Environmental Protection, we created the Recycling IQ Kit. Here’s one for curbside recycling communities, and another for communities with drop-off programs. |
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News & Updates
EPA Announces $117 Million for Grants Focused on Recycling and Wasted Food Prevention:
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is pleased to announce three new funding opportunities, totaling approximately $117 million, to improve recycling infrastructure and consumer education and outreach on wasted food prevention and composting! Two of the notices are for Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) grants – one funding opportunity for Tribes and intertribal consortia and another for communities across the country – and are focused on improving solid waste management infrastructure. The third notice is for EPA’s Recycling Outreach and Education (REO) grant program and is focused on wasted food prevention and composting.
Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Funding Opportunities
> The grants for Tribes and intertribal consortia will provide approximately $20 million in awards ranging from $100,000 to $1.5 million each.
The deadline to apply for the SWIFR Grants for Tribes and Intertribal Consortia is March 14, 2025. For the full details, please visit EPA’s SWIFR Grants for Tribes and Intertribal Consortia web page.
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is pleased to announce three new funding opportunities, totaling approximately $117 million, to improve recycling infrastructure and consumer education and outreach on wasted food prevention and composting! Two of the notices are for Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) grants – one funding opportunity for Tribes and intertribal consortia and another for communities across the country – and are focused on improving solid waste management infrastructure. The third notice is for EPA’s Recycling Outreach and Education (REO) grant program and is focused on wasted food prevention and composting.
Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Funding Opportunities
> The grants for Tribes and intertribal consortia will provide approximately $20 million in awards ranging from $100,000 to $1.5 million each.
The deadline to apply for the SWIFR Grants for Tribes and Intertribal Consortia is March 14, 2025. For the full details, please visit EPA’s SWIFR Grants for Tribes and Intertribal Consortia web page.
National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss & Waste & Recycling Organics:
The EPA, USDA, and FDA are pleased to announce the release of the “National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics” as part of President Biden’s whole-of-government approach to tackle climate change, feed people, address environmental justice, and promote a circular economy. This Strategy will accelerate the prevention of food loss and waste and is the first interagency national strategy that lays out a path for the United States to meet its national goal to halve food loss and waste by 2030. It is a deliverable in the Biden-Harris Administration’s National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. It is also part of EPA’s Series of Strategies on Building a More Circular Economy for All.
The goal of the Strategy is to prevent the loss and waste of food and increase recycling of organic materials to support a circular economy for all, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, save households and businesses money, and build cleaner, healthier communities. It identifies concrete steps that will both accelerate the prevention of food loss and waste, and the recycling of the remaining organic waste across the entire supply chain.
The Strategy offers four main objectives. The first two objectives are related, with the first focusing on preventing the loss, and the second on the preventing the waste of food. This is because prevention, rescuing and upcycling food offers the greatest opportunity of all food loss and waste strategies to decrease GHG emissions, protect critical ecosystems, and address climate change. The third objective focuses on increasing the recycling rate for all organic waste. The fourth objective focuses on supporting policies that incentivize and encourage food loss and waste prevention and organics recycling. Each objective is accompanied by complementary EPA, USDA and FDA actions that will support the US National Food Loss and Waste Reduction Goal of reducing food loss and waste by 50% by 2030.
The three agencies received over 10,000 comments throughout the comment period. We appreciate those who took the time to comment and give feedback on our priority actions, and have incorporated many suggestions throughout the final strategy, particularly in the areas of:
· Food donation/rescue.
· Upcycled food.
· Insect agriculture.
· Rendering.
· Uses for finished compost beyond agriculture use.
The agencies are considering recommendations based on available capacity and funding.
For more information, please see the press release here:
https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-announces-national-strategy-reduce-food-loss-and-waste-and
The EPA, USDA, and FDA are pleased to announce the release of the “National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics” as part of President Biden’s whole-of-government approach to tackle climate change, feed people, address environmental justice, and promote a circular economy. This Strategy will accelerate the prevention of food loss and waste and is the first interagency national strategy that lays out a path for the United States to meet its national goal to halve food loss and waste by 2030. It is a deliverable in the Biden-Harris Administration’s National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. It is also part of EPA’s Series of Strategies on Building a More Circular Economy for All.
The goal of the Strategy is to prevent the loss and waste of food and increase recycling of organic materials to support a circular economy for all, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, save households and businesses money, and build cleaner, healthier communities. It identifies concrete steps that will both accelerate the prevention of food loss and waste, and the recycling of the remaining organic waste across the entire supply chain.
The Strategy offers four main objectives. The first two objectives are related, with the first focusing on preventing the loss, and the second on the preventing the waste of food. This is because prevention, rescuing and upcycling food offers the greatest opportunity of all food loss and waste strategies to decrease GHG emissions, protect critical ecosystems, and address climate change. The third objective focuses on increasing the recycling rate for all organic waste. The fourth objective focuses on supporting policies that incentivize and encourage food loss and waste prevention and organics recycling. Each objective is accompanied by complementary EPA, USDA and FDA actions that will support the US National Food Loss and Waste Reduction Goal of reducing food loss and waste by 50% by 2030.
The three agencies received over 10,000 comments throughout the comment period. We appreciate those who took the time to comment and give feedback on our priority actions, and have incorporated many suggestions throughout the final strategy, particularly in the areas of:
· Food donation/rescue.
· Upcycled food.
· Insect agriculture.
· Rendering.
· Uses for finished compost beyond agriculture use.
The agencies are considering recommendations based on available capacity and funding.
For more information, please see the press release here:
https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-announces-national-strategy-reduce-food-loss-and-waste-and
Inflation Reduction Act Community Change Grants Program
NOW OPEN!
EPA’s new Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants program (Community Change Grants) has announced a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for approximately $2 billion dollars in Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funds in environmental and climate justice activities to benefit disadvantaged communities through projects that reduce pollution, increase community climate resilience, and build community capacity to address environmental and climate justice challenges. These place-based investments will be focused on community-driven initiatives to be responsive to community and stakeholder input. They are designed to deliver on the transformative potential of the IRA for communities most adversely and disproportionately impacted by climate change, legacy pollution, and historical disinvestments.
On this page:
NOW OPEN!
EPA’s new Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants program (Community Change Grants) has announced a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for approximately $2 billion dollars in Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funds in environmental and climate justice activities to benefit disadvantaged communities through projects that reduce pollution, increase community climate resilience, and build community capacity to address environmental and climate justice challenges. These place-based investments will be focused on community-driven initiatives to be responsive to community and stakeholder input. They are designed to deliver on the transformative potential of the IRA for communities most adversely and disproportionately impacted by climate change, legacy pollution, and historical disinvestments.
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EPA's New Wasted Food Scale
State of Recycling, The Present and Future of Residential Recycling:
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Recycling Program Solutions Hub:
A new free resource for local recycling staff and leaders.
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A new free resource for local recycling staff and leaders.
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Pharmaceutical Resources:
Courtesy of the Mo. Product Stewardship Council
Take-Back and Safe Disposal Locations in Missouri
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Courtesy of the Mo. Product Stewardship Council
Take-Back and Safe Disposal Locations in Missouri
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Click here for other resources!
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