Deadline: 13-Sep-21
The Government of Western Australia is seeking applications for its WasteSorted Grants Infrastructure and Community Education 2021–22 to avoid waste, recover more value and resources from waste, and protect the environment.
Integral to this is supporting local recycling infrastructure, which helps to create jobs and minimise the costs and impacts of unnecessary transport. This furthers the waste strategy’s vision of moving Western Australia towards becoming a circular economy. Also important is supporting work to change waste-related behaviour through education and the development of better practice systems and processes.
Infrastructure funding in the 2021–22 round will be prioritised towards food and garden organics, and construction and demolition waste. Infrastructure requests for domestic plastics, paper and cardboard, tyres and e-waste will be assessed as a lower priority, as other significant funding is available for these materials.
WasteSorted Grants provide funding under two streams:
- Stream 1: Recycling infrastructure
- Stream 2: Community education
Objectives
The WasteSorted Grants are aligned with the waste strategy’s objectives of avoiding waste, recovering more value and resources from solid waste, and protecting the environment. Assessment of applications for funding will focus on:
- projects that support the waste strategy’s objectives
- projects relating to focus materials, which include plastics, paper and cardboard, organics (including food organics), construction and demolition waste, metals, glass, textiles and hazardous waste (nondomestic)
Focus Areas
- Stream 1: Preference in the 2021–22 funding round will be given to infrastructure development which recovers higher value resources from focus materials, including:
- Higher priority:
- organics: food and garden organics
- construction and demolition waste
- Medium priority:
- glass: packaging and containers
- metals: steel, non-ferrous metals, packaging and containers
- non-domestic plastics: packaging and containers
- textiles: clothing and other fabric-based materials
- non-domestic hazardous waste
- Lower priority:
- domestic plastics: packaging and containers
- tyres
- paper and cardboard: office paper, newspaper and magazines
- e-waste
- Higher priority:
- Stream 2: WasteSorted Grants support projects which target the State Government’s focus materials. Preference in the 2021–22 funding round will be given to projects which recover higher value and resources from, and promote the diversion and recovery of, the following focus materials:
- organics: food and garden organics
- construction and demolition waste
- glass: packaging and containers
- metals: steel, non-ferrous metals, packaging and containers
- paper and cardboard: office paper, newspaper and magazines
- plastics: packaging and containers
- textiles: clothing and other fabric-based materials
- hazardous waste (non-household).
Funding Information
- Stream 1: A maximum $250,000 grant limit applies per project.
- Stream 2: A maximum $50,000 grant limit applies per project.
Eligibility Criteria
- Funding is available for projects implemented in Western Australia.
- Organisations eligible for funding include:
- businesses (normally with at least one year of continuous operation)
- community groups
- local governments
- not-for-profit organisations, including charitable recycling organisations
- peak industry bodies
- regional councils
- research and education organisations.
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