Cleanup, Revitalization and Recycling Investments
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law invests $5.4 billion in cleaning up legacy pollution at Superfund and brownfields sites, helping to restore the economic vitality of communities.
Superfund Clean-Up
$3.5 billion for Superfund site clean-up work.
What This Means
More than one in four Black and Hispanic Americans live within 3 miles of a Superfund site. No community deserves to have contamination near where they live, work, pray and go to school. With this funding, communities living near many of the most serious uncontrolled or abandoned releases of contamination will finally get the protections they deserve.
Learn more
- Cleaning Up Superfund Sites: Highlights of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding
- Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Fact Sheet: Investments in Superfund Remedial Program (pdf)
- Learn more about Superfund.
Brownfields Revitalization
$1.5 billion to scale-up community-led brownfields revitalization.
What This Means
Blighted and polluted sites in communities across America will be assessed, cleaned up and made available for safe reuse, spurring job creation and economic opportunity in areas that need it most.
Learn more
- Read more about brownfields redevelopment work.
- Learn about benefits to communities from the brownfields program.
- Find brownfields technical assistance, training and research.
Transforming U.S. Recycling and Waste Management
$350 million for Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling and Education and Outreach Grants.
$25 million to increase battery collection and recycling nationwide and reduce battery-related fires.
What This Means
Communities across the country are burdened by pollution impacts from poorly run waste management systems. This historic investment will transform recycling and solid waste management across the country while creating jobs. This investment will also improve the nation’s battery recycling programs while promoting the safe handling of used batteries.
Learn more
- Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: Transforming U.S. Recycling and Waste Management webpage.
- Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: Transforming U.S. Recycling and Waste Management Fact Sheet (pdf) .
- Learn about EPA's Model Recycling Program Toolkit.
- Review EPA's National Recycling Strategy.
- Learn about RCRA non-hazardous waste regulations.
- Learn the recycling basics.