{"id":52676,"date":"2013-12-29T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T17:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=52676"},"modified":"2013-12-29T10:50:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T15:50:55","slug":"two-madison-county-colleges-receive-ny-recycling-association-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=52676","title":{"rendered":"Two Madison County Colleges receive NY Recycling Association Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/County-Seal.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-47297\" alt=\"County Seal\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/County-Seal-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Wampsville, NY \u2013 Dec. 2013) Morrisville State College and Colgate University recently won $900 grants to expand special events and sports recycling programs on their campuses.<\/p>\n<p>The grants were awarded by the NYS Association for Reduction, Reuse and Recycling (NYSAR3).\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe competitive grant program was open to NYSAR3 college council members to promote recycling in New York State colleges,\u201d said Madison County Landfill Director James Zecca.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cHaving two of the grant recipients right here in Madison County shows a real commitment to recycling in our local area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morrisville State and Colgate University were two of five colleges to receive grants.\u00a0 Projects funded had to involve initiating, improving or expanding reduction, reuse, recycling and composting projects on college campuses. Grant amounts ranged from $300 to $1,000, the maximum available for any one project proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Other schools receiving grants and the type of project to be funded include: the University at Albany, office composting; SUNY Cobleskill, vermicomposting; Orange Community College, expansion of its existing Terra Cycle program. The NYSAR3 college council awarded a total of $4,100 in grants, which were announced and presented at the organization\u2019s fall recycling conference in Cooperstown recently.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on recycling in Madison County, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madisoncounty.ny.gov\/solid-waste\/home\" target=\"_blank\">www.madisoncounty.ny.gov\/solid-waste\/home<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To learn about NYSAR3 see the organization\u2019s website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysar3.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.nysar3.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Wampsville, NY \u2013 Dec. 2013) Morrisville State College and Colgate University recently won $900 grants to expand special events and sports recycling programs on their campuses. The grants were awarded by the NYS Association for Reduction, Reuse and Recycling (NYSAR3).\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe competitive grant program was open to NYSAR3 college council members to promote recycling in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agfarming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-dHC","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}