Deadline: 15-Dec-21
Sustainability Victoria is pleased to announce an open call for 2nd round of Recycling Victoria Infrastructure Fund – Hazardous Waste Stream to assist businesses and local government to increase the capacity and capability of Victoria’s resource recovery sector and recover high quality products.
The hazardous waste stream is available to fund infrastructure projects that target low-level contaminated soils and reportable priority waste.
Objectives
The Recycling Victoria Infrastructure Fund objectives are to:
- increase the recovery and local reprocessing of hazardous waste, and to manage this material in line with the waste hierarchy
- increase the use and quality of recycled materials for remanufacturing and to make new products
- increase economic development opportunities such as jobs, economic performance and growth of precincts.
Funding Information
- There is no funding cap per project. The total funding available for this grant round is $9.7 million.
- Applicants are required to meet the following minimum cash contribution:
- Industry must co-contribute at least $3 for every $1 funded.
- Local government must co-contribute at least $2 for every $1 funded.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must:
- have a current Australian Business Number (ABN), or have a joint venture partner with one, or commits to establish an Australian company prior to commencing project
- be a business or local government that has existing hazardous waste facilities in Victoria, or are proposing a new facility to be located in Victoria
- have been operating in Australia or internationally for a minimum of 12 months by the application closing date
- meet or exceed the minimum co-contribution requirements
- agree to comply with the Terms of Participation in Grant Programs
- agree to comply with the Short form funding agreement for funding of $50,000 or less, or the General Funding agreement for funding more than $50,000.
- Applicants and project participants must:
- demonstrate financial capability to undertake the project
- have met program and project timelines in previous Sustainability Victoria funding rounds
- not have failed to address an environmental or safety breach
- not have a breach not yet resolved
- meet due diligence requirements
- not have a current industrial relations investigation or prosecution.
- Sustainability Victoria encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses.
- Sustainability Victoria manages several grants. Although you can apply for more than one grant for a project, you can only receive one grant.
For more information, visit https://www.sustainability.vic.gov.au/grants-funding-and-investment/grants-and-funding/recycling-victoria-infrastructure-fund-hazardous-waste-stream-round-2