Deadline: 12-Mar-21
The Sustainability Victoria is accepting applications for its Recycling Victoria Business Support Fund Stream 2: Implementation Grants Program.
The Fund will primarily target waste prevention and reuse/remanufacture. Innovative recycling approaches will also be supported, where they develop new recycling markets in Victoria.
Objectives
The project should meet these objectives:
- Increase awareness of circular economy opportunities and benefits to Victorian businesses.
- Increase uptake of circular economy opportunities and approaches by business and accelerate Victoria’s transition to a circular economy, where implementation will
- increase access to circular economy products and services for businesses and consumers.
- increase materials efficiency within individual businesses and across supply chains.
- reduce materials intensity of a product, service, or business model.
- increase the duration of product and material lifecycles and value.
- establish new circular economy-based services, products, models, and markets.
- create new local jobs and increased circular economy-based skills in the workforce.
- reduce materials to landfill and other waste destinations.
- reduce greenhouse gas emissions and pollution.
- increase processing markets and capacity.
Focus Areas
The project should focus on at least one of these areas:
- Set up a new circular economy-based establishment.
- Extend an existing circular economy-based establishment.
- Diversify the output of an establishment into new additional circular economy-based products, services, models or markets.
- Improve circular economy-based outcomes within existing establishments.
- The project must also achieve at least one of these targets:
- reduce the generation of product or material waste by at least 750 tonnes per year.
- reduce the intensity of the material of a product, service or model by at least 750 tonnes per year.
- redistribute materials or products (to prevent waste) by at least 750 tonnes per year.
- reuse, remanufacture or upcycle materials or products by at least 750 tonnes per year.
- increase capacity to prevent waste or to re-use, remanufacture, redistribute, or upcycle materials or products by at least 2,500 tonnes per year.
- increase capacity to recycle materials or products currently wasted, through new and innovative solutions, by at least 2,500 tonnes per year.
Funding Information
- Grant amount per project for individual applicants: $100,000 to $500,000;
- Grant amount per project for collaborative partnerships: $100,000 to $1,000,000;
- Co-contribution is required.
Eligible applicants
- An application can be made by one organization or a group of organizations.
- For a group application (known as ‘collaborative partnership’), the main organization responsible for delivering the project is the lead applicant, and the others are the project partners.
- Applying as an individual: To be an individual applicant, you must be from one of the following:
- Business;
- Charity;
- other not-for-profit organizations;
- industry group and association.
- Applying as a collaborative partnership: To be a lead applicant, you must be from one of the following:
- Business;
- Charity;
- other not-for-profit organizations;
- industry group and association;
- consultant (assisting other organizations).
- To be a project partner, you must be from one of the following:
- Business;
- Charity;
- other not-for-profit organizations;
- industry group and association.
- You must also:
- co-contribute $1:$1 as a minimum;
- have a current Australian Business Number (ABN);
- have been operating for at least two years;
- provide evidence of a collaborative partnership if applying as one;
- agree to comply with the Funding Agreement Terms and Conditions and Terms of Participation in Grant Programs.
For more information, visit https://www.cebic.vic.gov.au/grants/recycling-victoria-business-support-fund-stream-2-implementation-grants