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Re+ (zero waste) grants
King County offers funding opportunities for non-profits, businesses, entrepreneurs, educational institutions, and local governments to support innovative projects that further King County’s commitment to zero waste of resources by 2030.
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Ravel
Ravel's innovative technology will transform end-of-life clothing into like-new textiles
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Chomp
Chomp has provided biofertilizer from their food waste processing plant to over 25 farms in King County, including the Matsuda Farm on Vashon Island
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Earthwise
In June 2023, Earthwise Architectural Salvage opened a new retail warehouse in Kenmore, expanding the market for salvaged construction materials in the County
Current funding opportunities
Re+ Seed Grants powered by NextCycle Washington
Starting Aug. 7, we're accepting applications for the next round of Re+ Seed Grants, powered by NextCycle Washington. The grants provide funding and technical assistance for early-stage ideas that divert waste from landfills. Selected projects will be supported with up to $10,000 in funding along with access to mentors, consultants, and networking to support project execution and growth planning. King County's Re+ Program will provide over $120,000 in funding for this program.
Review the information packet and apply now through the grant portal. The application period will close on Sept. 19.
Please contact circulargrants@kingcounty.gov with any questions.
Re+ City Grants
We are no longer accepting applications for the 2026-2027 cycle of the Re+ City Grants, available to King County cities only. Grant recipients will be announced in late 2025.
City Plug and Play Project resources
King County has developed a list of waste reduction and recycling project plans that cities can use when applying for Waste Reduction and Recycling Grants (WRR) and Re+ City Grants. The seven plans are designed to be the most impactful and easily implemented projects, adoptable by both large and small cities. Plans are available to all King County cities.
Plug and Play project plansPast awards
Since 2022, the King County Solid Waste Division has invested nearly $5 million in projects that reduce waste and keep valuable resources in the economy and out of the landfill. This is part of King County’s Re+ initiative to reinvent the region’s waste management system, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and create a more equitable, sustainable local economy.
Re+ Circular Economy Grant award recipients (2025)
The Re+ Circular Economy Grants are an important part of King County’s commitment to increase the prevention, reuse, and recycling of material so that we meet our zero waste of resources goal and reduce the impact of our consumption on the environment. In the second round of funding, 14 projects were awarded a total of $2.17 million.
| Organization | Project description | Material | Project type | Funding amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Note: the following links lead to external websites | ||||
| Chomp | Convert commercial food waste into a concentrated liquid and solid biofertilizer for local farms. |  |
Recycling & Composting | $266,842 |
| Sustainable Renton | Increase efforts to rescue surplus edible food and minimize organic waste in south King County. | |
Prevention & Reuse | $151,000 |
| Project Feast | Rescue surplus crops from local farms to support culinary training for immigrants and refugees and provide free meals to food-insecure residents. | |
Prevention & Reuse | $86,750 |
| Franciscan Foundation | Reduce food waste at three hospitals in King County by diverting edible food and providing nourishing meals to local communities in need. | |
Prevention & Reuse | $83,232 |
| Earthwise Architectural Salvage | Expand lumber recovery and reuse by collecting and processing salvaged lumber and offering educational workshops and free lumber to frontline communities. |  |
Prevention & Reuse | $256,700 |
| Second Use Building Materials | Establish and operate a drop-off site at the Shoreline Recycling and Transfer station for reusable items such as building materials, furniture and fixtures. |   |
Prevention & Reuse | $80,400 |
| Refugee Artisan Initiative | Employ refugee women artisans to design and craft new products using repurposed vinyl billboards, coffee bags and other upcycled materials, increasing reuse and providing critical employment opportunities. |  |
Prevention & Reuse | $299,900 |
| Perennial Zero Waste (Human Eco Consulting) | Reduce waste by providing reusable food service ware, an on-site mobile dishwashing trailer, and full compost and recycle waste management services at events in King County. |  |
Prevention & Reuse | $64,975 |
| Remakery | Expand plastic recycling program by turning plastic into 2x4 beams and other durable goods for outdoor uses, such as decking and benches. | |
Recycling & Composting | $42,850 |
| Zero Waste Washington | Reduce waste from milk cartons, milk, and single-use plastic bottles in K-12 schools by shifting to more sustainable milk and water dispensers. | |
Prevention & Reuse | $279,682 |
| Farmstand Local Foods | Pilot a reusable bin program with farmers and customers to replace disposable boxes for produce storage, transport, and distribution. | |
Prevention & Reuse | $45,374 |
| Furniture Repair Bank | Expand efforts to repair and refurbish furniture and provide it to refugee and low-income families. | |
Prevention & Reuse | $218,349 |
| Seattle REconomy | Expand on successful launch of the Shoreline Tool Library, a single location that houses a tool library, reclaimed materials store, and educational space. | |
Prevention & Reuse | $257,828 |
| Seattle ReCreative | Expand material reuse efforts beyond Seattle, increasing access to creative reuse, diverting usable materials from the landfill, and inspiring community-based reuse centers. | |
Prevention & Reuse | $40,000 |
Re+ City Grant award recipients (2023-24)
The Re+ City Grants Program supports cities delivering waste prevention, reuse, or recycling projects that help create a more circular economy. Cities in the King County service area that signed the Re+ Pledge were eligible to apply. Twelve cities, working on five projects, were awarded approximately $390,000 in the first grant cycle.
| City | Project description | Material | Project type | Funding amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Algona | Bolster recycling education and provide recycling vouchers to encourage residents to recycle materials. |  |
Recycling & Composting | $25,000 |
| Cities of Bothell, Kirkland, Bellevue, and Redmond | Expand the Eastside Bring Your Own Cup (BYOC) Campaign to increase the use of reusable cups at coffee shops. |   |
Prevention & Reuse | $84,000 |
| Cities of Renton and Kent | Provide technical assistance to increase recycling and organics service levels at businesses. |  |
Recycling & Composting | $100,000 |
| Cities of Shoreline and Lake Forest Park | Partner with Seattle REconomy to pilot the Shoreline Tool Library, a single location that houses a tool library, reclaimed materials store, and educational space. |  |
Prevention & Reuse | $99,970 |
| Cities of Tukwila, Burien, Maple Valley | Support food service businesses in setting up organics collection services to comply with the new statewide Organics Management Law. | |
Recycling & Composting | $83,000 |
NextCycle Washington Renew Seed Grant award recipients (2022-23)
NextCycle Washington is a statewide circular accelerator program for businesses and communities. Two types of support have been provided for projects that expand waste prevention, repair, reuse, recycling, and composting:
- Circular Accelerator – a six-month program designed to support and advance promising circular businesses and projects with workshops, business and technical assistance, pitch development, and matchmaking.
- Renew Seed Grants - mini-grants up to $10,000 for early-stage projects for businesses (start-ups, small and large), community-based organizations, tribal governments and research institutions as well as access to mentors, consultants, and networking to support project execution and growth planning.
Only projects in King County are listed below. For a full list of projects, please see the NextCycle Washington website.
| Organization | Project description | Material | Project Type | Funding amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duwamish Valley Sustainability Association | Implement the installation of a biodigester through a circular economy focus that uses part of the food waste generated by the South Park community to produce energy and liquid fertilizer for the benefit of such community (residents, businesses, local farms, etc.). |  |
Recycling & Composting | No direct funding - only technical assistance |
| Restaurant 2 Garden | Transform local restaurant food waste in the Chinatown International District into nutritious fertilizer to grow culturally appropriate food by establishing a decentralized and hyper-local community composting facility. | |
Recycling & Composting | No direct funding - only technical assistance |
| Refugee Artisan Initiative | Repurpose retired wildfire fire hoses into marketable products by partnering with refugee and immigrant women to foster an inclusive, prosperous transition to the US through artisan skills training and micro business development. |  |
Waste prevention (upcycling) | No direct funding - only technical assistance |
| South King Tool Library | Develop a Tool Library Incubator Program (TooLIP) that is a replicable model that would allow them to share and expand their best practices in communities throughout the region. |  |
Waste prevention (repair, reuse & sharing) | No direct funding – only technical assistance |
| Community Gearbox | Develop a social, inventory management app that lets users and organizations share, co-own, and mobilize resources amongst people they know and trust. | |
Waste prevention (sharing) | No direct funding – only technical assistance |
| GeerGarage | Develop a peer-to-peer outdoor gear rental platform that quickly matches renters with lenders who have the right gear, available in the right place, at the right time. | |
Waste prevention (rental) | No direct funding – only technical assistance |
| Just Right Bite | Develop a healthy and sustainable alternative to mainstream pet food, using insects and regenerative agricultural ingredients. | |
Waste prevention (upcycling) | No direct funding - only technical assistance |
| Ravel | Create the technology and infrastructure for circular textiles that enables the recovery and reuse of blended end of life textiles to create sustainable and just local materials economies for the apparel industry. | |
Recycling & Composting | No direct funding - only technical assistance |
| Birch Biosciences | Engineer a bio-enzymatic process to break down and recycle PET plastic to produce clean, virgin-quality recycled. |  |
Recycling & Composting | No direct funding - only technical assistance |
| Glacier | Build AI-enabled robots that automate sorting, making recycling lower costs and more effective for recycling facilities. | |
Recycling & Composting | No direct funding - only technical assistance |
| Redesign Collective | Divert luxury textiles from landfill and upcycle them into valuable products. | |
Waste prevention (upcycling) | No direct funding - only technical assistance |
| Book Hill Group | Develop consumer durables made with recycled content for organizing and protecting laundry, textiles, and wardrobes. | |
Waste prevention (reuse) | No direct funding - only technical assistance |
| Sustainable NE Seattle | Research and plan for a Reuse Commons in North King County that houses a suite of reuse- and repair-focused services. | |
Waste prevention (repair, reuse & sharing) | $10,000 |
| Bennion Construction | Deconstruct, salvage, and recycle materials (including fixtures and framed structure) from old homes in Seattle and King County. |  |
Waste prevention (reuse) | $10,000 |
| Minty Made LLC | Expand Green Marketing Academy to train and educate businesses, organizations, and agencies on utilizing sustainable, ethical, inclusive and accessible marketing practices. | |
Waste prevention & Recycling | $10,000 |
| N8madic, Inc. | Build a prototype of portable smart storage-furniture product made of recycled plastics. | |
Recycling & Composting | $10,000 |
| Refugee Artisan Initiative | Support the transport, cleaning, storage, and delivery of retired fire houses to skilled refugee and immigrant women artisans for upcycling. | |
Waste prevention (upcycling) | $10,000 |
| Sage Conservation | Expand service to low-income multi-family housing to maintain, repair and upgrade plumbing (versus replacement) conserving water and diverting materials from landfill. | |
Waste prevention (repair) | $10,000 |
| Sledge Seattle LLC | Research, prototype, and showcase re-milling of reclaimed old growth lumber salvaged from houses in Seattle and King County. | |
Waste prevention (reuse) | $10,000 |
| South King Tool Library | Develop course modules, surveys, assessments, and processes to build a Tool Library Incubator Program for community-based organizations to use as a guide in developing their own lending programs. | |
Waste prevention (repair, reuse & sharing) | $10,000 |
| The Chayah Movement | Create a pilot internship program focused on improving environmental and ethical impacts of the fashion industry. | |
Waste prevention (reuse) | $10,000 |
| Vashon Care Network | Enhance the Vashon Care Closet that loans durable medical equipment to Vashon-Maury Island residents, by developing an online ordering system, recruiting a native Spanish speaker liaison, and improving other support activities. | |
Waste prevention (reuse & sharing) | $9,467 |
| Zero Waste Washington | Conduct market and feasibility analysis for furniture repair project utilizing rescued, damaged furniture items from the public and partner organizations. | |
Waste prevention (repair & reuse) | $10,000 |
| WasteXperts |
Produce components that will be part of a new mobile unit (WX MRFi) that enables efficient onsite sorting of recyclable / compostable material. |
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Recycling & Composting | $10,000 |
| Rebundance | Develop the business of upcycling used bedding and textiles into durable home goods and craft supplies. | |
Waste prevention (upcycling) | $10,000 |
| Seattle T4T Clothing Swap | Host clothing swap events to provide trans, nonbinary, and gender diverse people in the Greater Seattle area with access to free, gender-affirming clothes while reducing textile waste in the community. | |
Waste prevention (reuse) | $9,660 |
| Diaper Stork LLC | Test cloth diaper service to include use of sphagnum moss in compostable diaper inserts. | |
Recycling & Composting | $10,000 |
| Duwamish Valley Sustainability Association | Develop engineering schematics for installation and operation of a biodigester in partnership with a local food rescue warehouse. | |
Recycling & Composting | Funded by Dept. of Commerce |
| Encora, LLC | Establish reusable foodservice takeout container pilot at a university campus. | |
Waste prevention (reuse) | Funded by Dept. of Commerce |
| GeerGarage | Develop new website and software functionality to scale peer-to-peer outdoor gear rental service. | |
Waste prevention (rental) | Funded by Dept. of Commerce |
| Restaurant 2 Garden | Expand program that composts local restaurant food waste into fertilizer and redistributes to the community. | |
Recycling & Composting | Funded by Dept. of Commerce |
| RPM eco | Collect empty plastic lubricant containers (primarily vehicle products) in the Seattle area and recycle them into high-quality resins using closed loop wastewater system. | |
Recycling & Composting | Funded by Dept. of Commerce |
| Simonpietri Enterprises LLC | Conduct scoping study on developing production plant in the Seattle-Tacoma area for converting construction and demolition debris into sustainable aviation fuel. | |
Waste-to-fuel | Funded by Dept. of Commerce |
| Just Right Bite | Develop the business of sustainable pet food made from insects – the insects are fed food waste. | |
Waste prevention (upcycling) | Funded by Dept. of Commerce |