Enter to win $500 for your school with the 2025 Recycling Grant
Two $500.00 Grants are awarded to local schools that bring awareness to Reduce, Reuse or Recycle each school year. The deadline to apply for the 2025 grant is March 28, 2025.
All applications for the grants will be reviewed by the RCRSWMA Board at the April 9, meeting and the winning projects will be announced shortly afterwards.
Download the 2025 Grant application here: Grant Application
For the official 2025 Grant Announcement: School-Grant-Flyer
Need help with grant ideas and filling out the grant application? Call Pete (419-774-5861) to schedule a visit to your classroom to discuss how to write and prepare for the grant and/or for reviewing possible projects that can benefit the school, the community, or a particular group of individuals.
***In 2023, the RCRSWMD’s Board of Directors chose to award and recognize 3 Richland County school programs with the $500 Recycling School Grant. For details, please click here: Past Recycling School Grants.
Enter the Poster Calendar Contest 2025
Every year Richland County Solid Waste hosts a K-12 student calendar contest. Poster deadline is 4:00PM, March 28, 2025. Qualifying posters must incorporate into the design; reduce, reuse, and/or recycle. Winning contestants will receive a gift packet promoting Richland County, which may include gift cards to The Infield, Kelly’s Dairy Bar and Miniature Golf, Altitude Trampoline Park, Cinemark Movie Theater, Buckeye Imagination Museum, Richland Carrousel Park, Golden Corral and more!
For contest guidelines, click here.
Poster Calendar Contest 2024 Winners!
Richland County Solid Waste is proud to announce the winners of the 2024 Poster Contest sponsored by BlueScope Recycling. The contest’s theme, reduce, reuse, recycle’ was best represented by the overall winners: Chelsea Sweet, 7th grade, from Lucas Middle School, Kennedey Hoffman, 3rd grade, from Sacred Heart School, and Reyna Barton, 9th grade, from Plymouth High School.
The following student posters were also picked to represent the 2024/2025 SCRAP recycling trailer calendar:
Eli Martin, 7th grade, from Plymouth Middle School. Kate Trumpower and Peyton Crose, 6th grade, from Lucas Middle School. Amber Martin and Lillianna Sparks,12th grade, Plymouth High School. Jacob Page 9th grade, from Plymouth High School. Lynae Cook, 2nd grade, from Lucas Elementary. Leo Beeson, 3rd grade, from Sacred Heart School. Anderson Gwirtz, 1st grade, from Sacred Heart School.
All winners will receive some gift cards from Kelly’s Mini Golf, Altitude Trampoline Park, Arby’s, Chinatown Restaurant, Cinemark 14, DQ, Deshner’s Pizza, Lex Lanes, Logan’s Roadhouse, Ohio Bird Sanctuary, Taco Bell, Texas Roadhouse, and Wendy’s as well as other opportunities to engage in Richland County’s parks and recreation.
Congratulations to all!