City Seeks Joint Recycling Grant
The city is joining with Seal Beach, La Palma and Los Alamitos in applying for a joint state grant to help residents recycle used motor oil.
The City Council on Monday night unanimously approved an application to the state for a grant of $31,368. The money would be used for a recycling program this year in all four cities.
City Manager Darrell Essex, in a report to the City Council, said: “The (state) funds will be utilized to continue soliciting sites within each city for state-certified used-oil collection centers, to expand the public education program and implement a school education program. All these efforts are designed to improve the safe handling, storage, transportation and recycling of used oil.”
Essex said the four cities want to inform residents about the need to safely dispose of used oil. He said the grant would allow the cities to pay for advertising about oil disposal and also for inserts to be included with utility bills.
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