Prepare grant applications to fund recycling programs or program enhancements.

“Prepare grant applications to fund recycling programs or program enhancements.” is a supplemental task performed by Recycling Coordinators. Among the occupation's 23 rated tasks, workers place it 6th by importance (#18 most important). About 36% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Plan events or programs. in Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 1.00. Automation potential label: T2.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Oversee recycling pick-up or drop-off programs to ensure compliance with community ordinances. · importance 4.2
• Assign truck drivers or recycling technicians to routes. · importance 4.1
• Maintain logs of recycling materials received or shipped to processing companies. · importance 4.0
• Create or manage recycling operations budgets. · importance 4.0
• Prepare bills of lading, statements of shipping records, or customer receipts related to recycling or hazardous material services. · importance 4.0
• Supervise recycling technicians, community service workers, or other recycling operations employees or volunteers. · importance 4.0
• Inspect physical condition of recycling or hazardous waste facility for compliance with safety, quality, and service standards. · importance 3.9
• Negotiate contracts with waste management or other firms. · importance 3.9
• Coordinate shipments of recycling materials with shipping brokers or processing companies. · importance 3.8
• Operate recycling processing equipment, such as sorters, balers, crushers, and granulators to sort and process materials. · importance 3.8
• Review customer requests for service to determine service needs and deploy appropriate resources to provide service. · importance 3.8
• Operate fork lifts, skid loaders, or trucks to move or store recyclable materials. · importance 3.7
• Schedule movement of recycling materials into and out of storage areas. · importance 3.6
• Oversee campaigns to promote recycling or waste reduction programs in communities or private companies. · importance 3.6

See all tasks on the Recycling Coordinators page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-17903,
  title  = {Prepare grant applications to fund recycling programs or program enhancements.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-17903}
}