SEATTLE (Recycling Monster): The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) grant amounting to $1.4 million to the Cherokee Nation. The Cherokee Nation is one among five tribes in Oklahoma to receive the grant. It must be noted that a total of $60million in SWIFR grants were granted to as many as 59 recipients.
The tribe has plans already in place on how to utilise the grant money. The primary focus lays on improvement of its Sanitary Landfill in Stilwell. The recycling and waste management systems at the landfill will see an improvement. It plans to use the money to boost capacity divert brush, miscellaneous vegetation and wood wastes from the landfill, the press release said.
The projects are targeted at reducing andfill contamination, greenhouse gas emissions, and soil erosion.
Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. highlighted the importance of making recycling investments into Cherokee communities. The EPA grant will help to deliver significant improvements to its recycling infrastructure and achieve substantial pollution prevention at the Stilwell landfill, he added.
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