On May 14, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and Energy & Environment Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Goodman announced more than half a million dollars in grant funding for benches, picnic tables, walkways, and poured-in-place playground surfacing projects that use recycled waste tires.
The grants are from the Waste Tire Trust Fund, established by the 1998 Kentucky General Assembly to receive a $2 fee from each retail sale of a new tire in the state. The fund helps manage the approximately five million scrap tires generated in Kentucky each year and promotes the development of markets for recycled tire products.
