Deadline: 11-Aug-23
The Sustainability Victoria (SV) is supporting industry and local councils through Round 4 of the Victorian Circular Economy Recycling Modernisation Fund.
The fund will assist organisations to prepare for and address the national export ban on priority waste materials and increase landfill diversion of these materials.
Objectives
- Projects must meet one or more of the following objectives:
- Increase the recovery and local reprocessing of priority materials. Round 4 includes mixed paper and cardboard, plastics wastes, tyres and glass (regional funding only).
- Improve recycling outcomes by addressing critical infrastructure gaps in Australia’s waste management and resource recovery system including, where possible, addressing Australia’s regional and rural waste challenges.
- Increase the capacity for domestic reprocessing and manufacturing of materials affected by the national regulation of waste exports, Container Deposit Scheme.
- Manage those materials in line with the waste hierarchy and national regulation of waste exports.
- Improve the quality of recovered materials to increase market uptake or meet improved material specifications, particularly for food and garden organics from kerbside (funded by the state only).
- Increase the use and market demand of recovered materials in remanufacturing and in the manufacture of new products.
- Create jobs in the resource recovery sector.
- Increase other economic development opportunities such as economic performance and growth of hubs in the regions.
- Reduce the amount and environmental impact of waste going to landfill.
- The fund aims to achieve the following outcomes:
- Diversify and attract new investment to increase the quality of materials recovered for recycling.
- Attract reprocessing infrastructure to increase the quantity of materials re-entering manufacturing streams and improving the circularity of materials.
- Support technologies and processes that provide new or improved recycling and manufacturing solutions.
Funding Information
- Grants of between $50,000 and $1,000,000 (ex GST) are available per project.
Eligible Projects
- Funding will support projects that:
- meet one or more of the fund objectives;
- operate at an existing facility that increases processing capability and capacity to improve quality of materials to meet product specifications for products or for re-manufacture or use of one or more of the following materials subject to the national regulation of waste exports:
- mixed plastics that are not of a single resin/polymer type or further sorting, cleaning and processing is required before use in manufacturing;
- single resin/polymer plastics that have not been reprocessed (for example cleaned and baled PET bottles);
- plastics from e-waste (except brominated and flame-retardant plastics);
- mixed and unsorted paper and cardboard;
- unprocessed glass, in a whole or broken state (both formed packaging and flat sheet glass) in regional or rural Victoria;
- all whole used tyres or in pieces larger than 150 mm, including baled tyres, but not including bus, truck and aviation tyres exported for retreading to a verified retreading facility.
- Project types:
- Purchase, install and commission new equipment or upgrades to existing equipment to:
- increase domestic reprocessing capacity;
- improve the quality of material (includes secondary sorting);
- Increase use of recycled content in manufacturing.
- Projects must:
- source 50% or more of the project feedstock (materials) from Victorian sources;
- demonstrate market supply of the material feedstocks and demand for the processed products. Applications with secured feedstock and end markets will be assessed more favourably by the assessment panel;
- be located in and service Victoria;
- meet regulatory or planning requirements;
- be completed by 31 May 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible organisations must be one of the following organisation types:
- An Australian Business.
- A Victorian local government.
- A Social Enterprise (must be currently registered with Social Traders or prove accreditation before entering into a funding agreement).
- Other Not-for-profit organisation, ideally registered on the ACNC charity register.
- Note: If the Applicant is a Trust, the Funding Agreement must be executed by the Trustee of the Trust. For example XYZ Pty Ltd as The Trustee for the XYZ Trust. The Trust as the trading entity must meet all the eligibility requirements of the fund (for example ABN).
- Applicants must:
- have a current Australian Business Number (ABN). If the Applicant is a Trust, the Trust as the trading entity must meet this requirement;
- have been operating for a minimum of 2 years by the application closing date (to be validated by the date that the organisation’s ABN is active from);
- be able to demonstrate financial viability to undertake the project;
- submit their Fair Jobs Code Pre-Assessment Certificate Number with their application if applying for $500,000 or more (exclusive of GST). A Certificate must be held prior to applying for the grant.
- Individuals and unincorporated entities are not eligible for funding.
For more information, visit Sustainability Victoria.
