WNCA receives recycling stations, grant from Oskar Blues Brewery

From press release

ASHEVILLE—Western North Carolina Alliance is the recipient of a $5,000 grant and five new portable recycling stations from Oskar Blues Brewery’s non-profit CAN’d Aid Foundation.

The goal of these recycling grants, according to Oskar Blues, is to empower individuals, events and communities to create sustainable recycling programs.

WNCA will partner with Asheville Greenworks and Environmental Conservation Organization (ECO) to implement the grant.

CAN’d Aid has awarded $12,000 in cash and 18 reusable recycling stations have been granted to four nonprofits across the country. Funds and equipment are still available and the foundation’s goal is to award at least a dozen more applicants this summer and fall and continue the program in 2015.

Learn more at http://foundation.oskarblues.com/.

 

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