Deadline: 07-May-21
The Sustainability Victoria has launched the Materials Recycling Infrastructure Funding to support industry and local government to increase the capacity and capability of Victoria’s resource recovery sector and the quality of materials recovered.
Objectives
The funds objectives are to:
- improve recycling outcomes by addressing critical infrastructure gaps in Australia’s waste management and resource recovery system
- increase the capacity for domestic sorting, processing and manufacturing of materials affected by the National Waste Export Ban, Container Deposit Scheme and Victoria’s kerbside transition
- increase the supply of quality recycled materials
- increase the recovery and local reprocessing of eligible materials
- manage eligible materials in line with the waste hierarchy
- increase the use and market demand of recovered materials in remanufacturing and to make new products
- create jobs in the resource recovery sector
- increase other economic development opportunities such as economic performance and growth of hubs
- reduce the amount and environmental impact of waste going to landfill.
This will be achieved by funding projects that will:
- 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 innovative technologies and processes that provide new or improved recycling and remanufacturing solutions.
Type of Grants
This funding opportunity includes 2 grants:
- The Recycling Victoria – Recycling Modernisation Fund (RV-RMF) supports infrastructure projects that address specific waste materials impacted by the national waste export bans:
- mixed plastics that are not of a single resin/polymer type and/or further sorting, cleaning and processing is required before use in re-manufacturing
- single resin/polymer plastics that have not been re-processed (e.g. cleaned and baled PET bottles)
- mixed and unsorted paper and cardboard
- unprocessed glass, in a whole or broken state (both formed packaging and flat sheet glass)
- all whole used tyres, including baled tyres, but not including bus, truck and aviation tyres exported for re-treading to a verified re-treading facility.
- The Recycling Victoria Infrastructure Fund (RVIF) – Materials stream (Round 2) supports infrastructure projects that increase capacity and improve the recovery of the materials listed below:
- paper and cardboard
- plastics
- glass
- organics
- textiles
- tyres.
Funding is available to businesses (including international), not-for-profits and local governments that have existing reprocessing and re manufacturing facilities in Victoria, or are proposing a new facility in Victoria.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants who were successful under the Recycling Victoria Infrastructure Fund (round 1) are eligible to apply. The project must have a clear difference (e.g. targeting a different material, at a different site or a clear expansion of processing capacity).
- Applicants must:
- have a current Australian Business Number (ABN), or have a joint venture partner with one, or commit to establish an Australian company prior to entering into a funding agreement with Sustainability Victoria
- be a business, not-for-profit or local government that has existing reprocessing and remanufacturing 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 Short Form Funding Agreement Terms and Conditions (for grants $50,000 and less) or General funding agreement (for grants over $50,000) and Terms of Participation in Grant Programs.
- Applicants and Project Participants must:
- demonstrate financial capability to undertake the project
- meet funding program timelines
- not have failed to meet program timelines with other Sustainability Victoria funding programs without sufficient reason
- not have failed to address an environmental or safety breach
- not have a breach not yet resolved
- not have a current industrial relations investigation or prosecution
- Sustainability Victoria encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations.
For more information, visit https://www.sustainability.vic.gov.au/grants-funding-and-investment/grants-and-funding/materials-recycling-infrastructure-funding