Environmental Protection Agency · Sanitation
Recycling Education and Outreach (REO) Grant Program
Funds education and outreach to reduce contamination in recycling streams and improve residential recycling participation. Cities can apply on their own or partner with regional solid-waste authorities and nonprofits.
Whether your city can win this comes down to hard rules — population, designation, match capacity. Run your city and our AI checks it against the rules below in about 8 minutes.
Program facts
- Typical award
- $100K – $5M
- Non-federal match
- Varies by NOFO
- Eligible entity
- U.S. cities & local governments
- Application window
- Annual NOFO; typically posts late fall.
- Typical prep time
- 6–12 weeks
- Statutory authority
- IIJA §70402 (Save Our Seas 2.0 Act §302)
Who is eligible for Recycling Education and Outreach (REO) Grant Program?
These are the hard rules we check against. If one fails, the program is ineligible — the AI never overrides a rule.
- Cities are eligible applicants.
IIJA-authorized; pairs naturally with SWIFR capital awards. Amounts and timing approximate; verify directly with administering agency.
How Strategic Pursuit scores this program
Run a city dossier and our AI cross-checks ACS demographics, 5-year USAspending award history, FEMA disaster history, and CEJST/Justice40 + HUD designations against this program's rules. You get a clear eligibility, strategic, and competitive answer — with the city's own hard evidence ready to anchor the narrative — instead of a generic match badge. And if it's a no-go, you'll know before you spend the month.
The dossier isn't the AI's guesswork — eligibility is decided by the rules, and the numbers come straight from official sources. The answer your reviewer will check line by line.
No credit card. 30-day trial, 3 dossiers, 1 seat.
Related programs
- Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program (EPA)$500K – $15M
- Pollution Prevention (P2) Grant Program (EPA)$250K – $1M
- Solid Waste Management Grant Program (USDA Rural Development)$50K – $500K
- Composting and Food Waste Reduction (CFWR) Pilot Program (USDA Rural Development)$45K – $2M
Award ranges, match percentages, and windows are approximate.