Community Waste Diversion Fund

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The Community Waste Diversion Fund provides financial support to communities across Newfoundland and Labrador that are finding exciting new ways to reduce, reuse or recycle more waste.

Call for proposals

CWDF Funding Guidelines

Who Can Apply?

Municipalities and Local Service Districts may apply for a maximum $10,000 non-repayable contribution for initiatives that foster solid waste diversion in Newfoundland and Labrador.

A community must submit a completed application form for consideration.  Applications must demonstrate:

1. • Effort/Knowledge (knowledge of the project concept)
   • Impact to the waste management hierarchy (e.g., expected amount of waste diverted relative to the size of the community).
   • Community Engagement (what individuals/groups will participate, who will benefit, how will these individuals/groups be communicated with)
   • Project Sustainability/Longevity (potential to become an ongoing service or program)
   • Capability to Successfully Undertake the Project (resources committed by applicant, partnerships created to enable project success)

For more information, call 709.757.0782 or email moton@mmsb.nl.ca.

• 2022-23 Recipients

  City of Corner Brook, Organic Waste Diversion through Community Focused Composting – $4,609
  Funding will support the expansion of the City’s existing community composting initiatives to improve access for residents through the purchase of four new tumblers.

  City of Mount Pearl, Waste Wizard App Development with eLearning Sorting Game – $6,028
  Funding will support the development of a waste diversion app, which will house its waste wizard to help residents sort their waste, and an eLearning waste sorting game.

  Town of Bauline, Community Compositing Pilot Project – $3,130
  Funding will support the purchase of two compost tumblers to be installed in a public park for use by 37 households and approximately 100 residents.

  Town of Carmanville, Woodchipper– $10,000
  Funding will support the purchase of a woodchipper to turn wood and yard waste collected from residents into mulch for the local nature trail and community garden.

  Town of Channel – Port aux Basques, Woodchipper – $6,072
  Funding will support the purchase of a woodchipper to turn wood and yard waste collected from residents into mulch for greenspaces.

  Town of Norman’s Cove-Long Cove, Woodchipper – $10,000
  Funding will support the purchase of a woodchipper to turn wood and yard waste collected from residents into mulch for greenspaces.

  Town of Placentia, Plastic Bottle Waste Diversion – $8,000
  Funding will promote the use of reusable water bottles over single use containers through the installation of refrigerated bottle filling stations throughout the community.

  Town of Paradise, The Green Goal – $10,000
  Funding will support the development and research of a new project to educate residents on how to divert more waste through recycling and composting.

  Town of Spaniard’s Bay, Woodchipper – $10,000
  Funding will support the purchase of a woodchipper to turn wood and yard waste collected from residents into mulch for residential, commercial and municipal greenspace.

   

• 2021-22 Recipients

  Town of Fogo Island – $5,892
  Funding will support further growth of a program to recover, reuse and recycle textiles on Fogo Island through strategic partnerships with schools and community groups.

  Town of Pilley’s Island – $10,000.00
  Funding will help divert textile waste through the introduction of a program to collect, sort, harvest, redistribute and recycle textiles into long-life items.

  Town of Georges Brook Milton – $9,376
  Funding will support the purchase of a woodchipper and two additional composters to aid in the expansion of an existing Community Composting project.

  Town of Pouch Cove – $9,800
  Funding will promote the use of reusable water bottles over single use containers through the installation of chilled bottle filling stations.

  Town of Stephenville – $10,000
  Funding will support a new curbside organic waste collection pilot using an in-vessel composter for processing organic waste.

  Town of St. Anthony’s – $10,000
  Funding will support the purchase of a woodchipper to divert wood waste and provide a mulching service to residents free of charge.

  Town of Carbonear – $3,478
  Funding will support the purchase of in-vessel composters that will provide an opportunity for residents, local food banks and nearby restaurants to divert organic waste through community composting.

  Town of Summerford – $972
  Funding will support the purchase of an in-vessel composter for a new community composting initiative which will be piloted by 20 families to divert organic waste.

  Town of Avondale – $6,583
  Funding will support the purchase of a woodchipper to help divert leaf, yard and wood waste from the landfill by mulching material for use in community gardens and greenspaces.

  Town of Lumsden – $3,612
  Funding will support the implementation of recycling infrastructure and education on local beaches and near the Town Hall where residents and visitors can properly dispose of their waste while protecting local sand dunes and the environment.

  Town of Charlottetown – $7,227
  Funding will support a curbside recycling program initiative. Residents will be provided with infrastructure and a bi-weekly collection of materials that will be diverted from the landfill.

• 2020-21 Recipients

  St. Lawrence – $10,000
  Funding will support the purchase of a wood chipper to turn wood and yard waste collected from residents into mulch for the community garden and flower beds.

  Carbonear – $9,264
  Funding will support the purchase of a wood chipper that can be attached to a truck and moved to residential collection locations throughout the community.

  Indian Bay – $10,000
  Funding will support the purchase of a wood chipper that will support curbside collection of brush on a prescheduled basis. The mulch would be used throughout the town and municipal park.

  Kippens – $7,248
  Funding will support the purchase of three compost tumblers for the community garden, as well as 30 compost catchers for residents to use at home.

  Georges Brook – $4,960
  Funding will support the purchase four Joracan New Era 401 Composters to be installed at the new community garden. The community composting project will support 18 households.

  Gambo – $10,000
  Funding will support the purchase of a new mulching head with 30″ cut to attach to a Kubota which will allow brush and other wood waste from the trail maintenance program to create mulch for trails and community gardens.

  Portugal Cove St Philips – $ 8,297
  Funding will support the purchase of four composting tumblers to place around the community for residential use.

  Fogo Island – $6,879
  Funding will support a program to remove, reuse and recover textiles on Fogo Island.

• 2019-20 Recipients

  City of St John’s – $11,800
  Continued Furniture inventory at RHB and pilot with Habitat for Humanity to separate/reuse more streams

  Town of Port au Port West –Aguathuna –Felix Cove – $10,000
  Community Composting Program -Establishing a community-based waste management system which involves curbside collection of household food waste for composting

  Town of Woody Point – $10,000
  Reducing Single-Use Plastic Bottles -the town proposes to procure and install outdoor bottle filling stations to be placed in locations that everyone has access to.

  City of Corner Brook – $10,000
  Community Composting Program–the cityplans to develop three community gardens sites that will house two to three composting units.

  Town of Channel-Port aux Basque – $2,975
  Reducing Single-Use Plastic Bottles –the town proposes to install a water refilling station at the Bruce II Sports centre as well as actively encourage users of the centre to bring in reusable bottles.

  Town of Gander – $15,000
  Community Composting Program-The town proposes to buy a mobile power screener that will enable further processing of compost and other aggregates.

  Town of Makkovik – $1,829
  Reducing Single-Use Plastic Bottles -the town proposes to procure and install water dispensers at eight locations in the town

  Town of Mount Carmel‐Mitchell’s Brook‐St. Catherine’s – $8,180
  Reducing Single-Use Plates -The Town proposes to purchase multi-use dinnerware and flatware and enhance the process by also purchasing an energy efficient commercial dishwasher of which use would enable a sustainable use of reusable dinnerware and flatware.

  Town of Marystown – $10,000
  Residential wood waste chipping and mulching program –the town plans to procure a woodchipper and offer a curbside chipping service of cleared woody vegetation

  Town of Norris Point – $4,657
  Creation of waste/recycling bins -the town proposes to create a dual bin shaped in traditional salt box style homes and/or light houses for waste and recycling to be placed throughout the town

  Town of Carbonear – $7,632
  Expansion of recycling program–the town proposes to install two-bin recycling and garbage containers at key locations around the town and to have portable wheelie bins for special events.

   

• 2018-19 Recipients

  City of Corner Brook – $20,000
  Glass Crushing/Recycling –following a successful pilot in Phase I, the City plans to implement a full-scale community wide glass recycling system

  City of Mount Pearl – $10,000
  Residential wood waste chipping and mulching program –the City plans to procure a woodchipper and offer a curbside collection service of cleared woody vegetation on a prescheduled basis

  Town of Deer Lake – $10,000
  Curbside Organics Collection & Composting -the town proposes to implement a three-stream curbside collection service to include organics

  Town of Baie Verte – $8,220
  Community Composting Program–townplans to provide a drop-off site for leaf and yard waste and kitchen scraps such as fruit and vegetable peels and coffee grounds.

  Town of Placentia – $10,000
  Residential Leaf and Yard Waste Mulching –the town proposes to purchase a woodchipper to reduce waste going to landfill from road clearing operations and residential yard work and to reduce burning and indiscriminate dumping

  Towns Of Woody Point/GBS & Trout River – $6,560
  Reducing Single Use Plastic Bags -The three towns will be passing new bylaws to ban single-use plastic bags and are looking to purchase 1,500 reusable bags to distribute to its residents

• 2017-18 Recipients

  Town of Brigus – $8,500
  Outdoor Recycling Infrastructure and Education -Implementation of curbside recycling stations combined with public education

  Town of Cartwright $5,000
  Plasticbag ban and substitution with reusable and recyclable cloth bags

  City of Corner Brook – $12,000
  Glass Crushing/Recycling -pilot project touse a small glass crusher and milling equipment to pulverize non-beverage glass containers obtained from the public from a single collection point

  Town of Gander – $6,400
  Residential wood waste chipping –townplans to use the material as mulch for its landscaping rather than purchase the mulch as done in the past

  Town of Hermitage-Sandyville – $9,000
  Aquaculture Feed Bag Study -proposes to initiate the process of diverting salmon feed bags from the landfill to a plastics recycling stream.

  Town of Main Brook – $2,300
  Backyard Composting –launch of a backyard composting education program

  Town of Port au Choix – $4,800
  Plastic Bag Reduction –projectinvolves removing/reducing use of single-use plastic bags and replacing with reusable cloth bags

  City of St John’s – $10,000
  Furniture inventory at RHB and pilot with Home Again Furniture Bank -project aims to record and catalogue furniture waste streams received at the ResidentialDrop Off, determine the amount and approximate weight of furniture waste streams received at the RDO and assess condition of furniture pieces and divert items that can be immediately reused.

  Town of Woody Point – $12,000
  Construction of a composting site for organic waste from local restaurants

• 2016-17 Recipients

  Carbonear – $10,000
  Implementation of a community composting program, providing a drop-off site for leaf and yard waste

  Channel –Port -aux -Basques – $4,186
  Plastic Bag Reduction through public education with a view to phasing out use of single-useplastic bags

  City of Corner Brook – $9,100
  Curbside Give Away -continuation and extension of thecity’s “Give Away” waste reduction program. Residents are asked to place their unwanted household materials at the curb in the fall for others who may want them

  Town of Happy Valley–Goose Bay – $6,899.63
  Community Compost -pilot project for voluntary drop-off of organic materials using Joracompost tumblers

  Town of Kippens – $10,000
  Wood waste mulching -management of wood waste which included chipping wood materials into mulch that can be used throughout the community (done in partnership with the Town of Stephenville)

  City of St John’s – $10,000
  Mandatory Recycling Pilot –implementation of a pilot program with a portion of the City to test a mandatory curbside recycling and clear bag garbage program to qualify issues that arise with residents, aimed at informing a strategy on city-wide mandatory recycling.

  City of St John’s – $10,000
  Leaf Collection by Appointment -goal of this project was to develop a more economical, efficient and improved environmental approach to the collection of leaves by creating an online registration by appointment system

• 2015-16 Recipients

  Burgeo-Ramea-Francois-Grey River – $2,000
  White Metals Separation/Recycling –project explored how to get whitemetals out of the remote communities on a regular sustainable basis

  Cox ‘s Cove – $10,000
  Curbside Organics Collection and Composting with Private Enterprise (NuMinkInc)-Thetown’s organic waste will added to the industrial waste already being composted by the company

  Happy Valley-Goose Bay – $10,000
  Mulching Leaf and Yard Waste -obtain a wood chipper to mulch yard waste and clearing/grubbing waste.

  Makkovik – $4,000
  PlasticBag Ban which involved distribution of reusable bags to residents as well as public education

  City of Mount Pearl – $10,000
  Textile Collection and Recycling–the project collected textiles at the curbside from residents on demand, and also placed collection bins in the town for drop-off.

  City of Mount Pearl – $10,000
  Enforcement of Mandatory Recycling -program where random household waste audits coupled with extensive public information and award program is implemented in an attempt to maximize diversion.

  Port Blandford – $1,000
  Community Composting -small compost containers were built and placed at strategic locations within the community garden. There was also some public education

  Postville – $1,000
  Plastic Bag Ban -project involved distribution of reusable bags to residents