Deadline: 16-Nov-22
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) is seeking applications for its Go FOGO grants to support NSW councils to deliver weekly food only (FO) or food organics and garden organics (FOGO) services to their communities.
Objectives
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The objectives of the Go FOGO grants are to:
- support the effective rollout of weekly FOGO (or FO) services to 500,000 households that have no organics service
- support the effective rollout of weekly FOGO (or FO) services to 1,500,000 households that have a garden only waste service
- provide additional support to councils with a significant number of multi-unit dwellings (MUDs) to deliver additional tailored communication to these properties.
Funding Information
- $50 per household in single unit dwellings transitioning from no organics service to a weekly food and garden (FOGO) service
- $25 per household in multi-unit dwellings with shared bins transitioning from no organics service to weekly FOGO (or food only (FO) services if no garden waste is generated on site)
- $10 per household transitioning from garden organics (GO) services to weekly FOGO (or separate GO and FO collections where the GO is a minimum fortnightly and FO minimum weekly collection).
- Additional funding of up to $50,000 is available to councils with a large number of multi-unit dwellings (MUDs) to deliver additional tailored communication. It is available only to councils with more than 10,000 multi-unit dwellings, or where MUDs account for more than 20% of housing stock. It acknowledges additional education may be required to engage residents in these properties and tailored education will be needed to address high resident turnover, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, and action required in different MUD types.
Eligibility Criteria
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Eligible organisations
- All NSW councils are eligible to apply for funding to roll out new weekly FOGO services or FO services to households that do not currently have a service. The service must be active within three years of the grant application approval.
- Councils who have previously received funding under the Waste Less Recycle More organics collections grants are eligible to apply for funding to deliver new services only to households not covered by the previous funding.
- Following the assessment and approval process, successful applicants are expected to be notified in early 2023.
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Eligibility requirements are:
- Funding supports rollout of new FOGO (or FO) services.
- The new weekly FOGO (or FO) collection will start in less than three years from the date of the grant approval.
- The new organics collection service is for a minimum of 10 years.
- The new source separated organics bin-based service will be weekly.
- All services include delivery of a kitchen caddy to the household with information on how to use the new service.
- The collected food and garden organics must be treated at a lawful facility to make quality outputs in keeping with Circular Economy Policy principles.
- An education campaign with three stages (pre, during and post rollout) must be implemented to encourage and support high resource recovery and the correct material in correct bin.
- The education campaign includes food waste avoidance messaging.
- Provision for yearly education within the new organics collection contract.
- Education about what can go in the bin in line with the EPA position statement on what should and shouldn’t be disposed of in FOGO or FO bins.
For more information, visit EPA.
For more information, visit https://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/working-together/grants/organics-infrastructure-fund/go-fogo-grants