Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund: Materials – Funded projects
The Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund: Materials stream supports infrastructure projects that increase capacity and improve the recovery of paper and cardboard, plastics, glass, tyres, organics and textiles.
$7.7 million has been awarded to 9 infrastructure projects that will increase Victoria’s capacity to process and recycle glass, organic, plastics, paper and carboard waste from the state.
The funded projects will create 56 new ongoing full-time jobs and increase processing capacity for these materials by up to 375,000 tonnes per year, as well as increasing the quality of up to 325,000 tonnes per year of recycled glass and organics products for reuse.
Fund recipients
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Applications for Round 4 were submitted under Victorian Circular Economy Recycling Modernisation Fund (VCE RMF). Projects cofunded by the Australian government are listed under the VCE RMF Funded projects.
Announcement date: 9 February 2024.
Pinegro Products Pty Ltd
Installing an organics decontamination processing line in Morwell that enables higher quality marketable finished products recycling from kerbside food and garden organics.
Funding: $1,000,000.
Plasgain Pty Ltd
Creating Plaspole, Australia's First Light Pole with Recycled Plastic Core, at Plasgain’s facility to manufacture light poles using post-consumer recycled content.
Funding: $250,000.
Repurpose It
Installing efficient organics decontamination technology to produce high quality compost from kerbside food and garden organics each year.
Funding: $1,000,000.
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Applications for Round 3 were submitted under Victorian Circular Economy Recycling Modernisation Fund (VCE RMF). Projects cofunded by the Australian government are listed under the VCE RMF Funded projects.
Announcement date: 9 January 2023.
Close the Loop
Pioneering, installing and commissioning a ‘Mix Melter’ machine, an Australian invention to turn soft plastics into the proven and highly successful TonerPlas and rFlex products.
Funding: $200,000.
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Announcement date: 12 November 2021.
Citywide Service Solutions Pty Ltd
Building a new facility in West Melbourne to recycle glass into glass sand and glass fines, which will be used in roads or turned into products like fibreglass.
Funding: $582,400.
Pinegro Products Pty Ltd
Building an enclosed composting facility in Gippsland to process kerbside food organics, garden organics, and commercial food waste.
Funding: $2,000,000.
Rural City of Wangaratta
Expanding the processing capacity of the Wangaratta Organics Processing Facility.
Funding: $381,000.
Van Schaik’s Bio Gro Pty Ltd
Establishing a Regional Organics Recovery Facility in the Bendigo region to process a range of organics including decontaminated kerbside FOGO.
Funding: $1,669,500.
Van Schaik’s Bio Gro Pty Ltd
Expanding the processing capacity of Bio Gro’s Dandenong South Organics Processing Facility.
Funding: $600,790.
More information
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