EGLE's Scrap Tire Cleanup Grants helps communities and property owners remove abandoned scrap tires and clean up tire stockpiles. Priority is given to older sites and locations that threaten public health, safety, or the environment, helping protect Michigan's communities and natural resources.

In Fiscal Year 2026, EGLE provided $675,000 in grant funding for scrap tire cleanup projects. 

EGLE's Scrap Tire Market Development Grants are available to reimburse up to 50% of the cost to purchase scrap tires to support the development of increased markets for scrap tires. Grant funding is also available to reimburse up to 50% of the cost of purchasing equipment or for research and development to provide for a new or increased use for scrap tires.

In Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, EGLE provided $2.1 million to universities, local governments, and private businesses for scrap tire market development projects. 

In fiscal year (FY) 2022, EGLE provided $11.6 in matching grants to support Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s climate priorities by supplementing efforts to increase the statewide recycling rate, ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion, and grow recycling markets and recycling supply chains through the NextCycle Michigan Initiative (NextCycle). These FY 2022 recycling grants were awarded to local governments and private businesses under three categories:

1. Michigan Recycling Infrastructure Grants
   1. These grants are designed to increase the statewide recycling rate, with the goal of achieving a 45 percent statewide recycling rate by 2025. Additionally, the Recycling Infrastructure Grants work to increase collection and processing capacity of recyclable materials or food waste and increase access and participation rates in recycling or food waste composting programs while promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion across Michigan, and they will support Governor Whitmer’s climate change priorities through measurable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
2. Michigan Recycling Market Development Grants
   1. These grants are designed to create new markets or expand existing markets and create supply chains for recycled materials, as well as stimulate demand for recycled materials and recycled content products and strong supply chains to feed that demand. In addition, these grants aim to assist businesses that manufacture, market, and use recycled-content products while building diversity, equity, and inclusion. These grants will also commercialize technologies to replace materials with recycled content; to improve the quality, increase the quantity, and grow demand for utilizing recycled materials in manufacturing or other uses; and facilitate research and development of new uses for recycled materials.
3. Michigan Small Community Education Grants
   1. These grants are designed to help small communities access education and outreach resources to improve local recycling programs, reduce contamination, and further educate residents. This grant program is a collaboration between EGLE and The Recycling Partnership, a nonprofit action agent transforming the U.S. residential recycling system for good.