REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Accept the FY 2022/23 CalRecycle Beverage Container Quality Infrastructure Grant and Approve Budget Modification No. 25 in the Amount of $6,575,000
Report
GRANT SUMMARY
On November 12, 2024, the Council adopted Resolution No. 1254-24 (Attachment 2), which authorized the City Manager or his designee to submit applications for all CalRecycle Grants for which the City of Sunnyvale is eligible and to execute grant agreements as necessary to secure grant funds and implement approved grant projects (RTC 24-0743).
City staff applied for and were awarded a CalRecycle Beverage Container Quality Infrastructure Grant (QIG1) of $6,575,000 to upgrade the recycling and solid waste processing system at the Sunnyvale Materials Recovery and Transfer (SMaRT) Station(r).
This grant is a result of the FY 2022/23 Budget Act, Assembly Bill 179, which allocated $50 million to CalRecycle from the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund. The goal of this CalRecycle Program is to provide infrastructure related to sorting to create clean streams of beverage containers that curbside recycling programs or drop-off collection programs can substantially support.
The City's selected project is one of the nine projects approved for funding. The grant-funded equipment will recover additional beverage containers, aluminum cans, ferrous metal, Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET), High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE), Polypropylene (PP), glass, and carton containers delivered from the cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale, while also increasing the purity of the recovered material.
The equipment includes magnetic separators to recover metal containers and clean glass, optical sorters and an associated air compressor system, an eddy current separator to recover aluminum cans, and conveyors to transport the recovered material to designated storage bunkers. This equipment will be installed as part of the NextGen Project contract awarded to Bulk Handling Systems by...
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