Victorian Circular Economy Recycling Modernisation Fund – Funded projects
Australian Government Recycling Modernisation Fund
The Recycling Modernisation Fund is an Australian Government initiative that is investing over $190 million to expand Australia’s capacity to sort, process and remanufacture recycled materials such as plastic, paper, cardboard, tyres and glass. The fund helped Australia respond to the national regulation of waste exports.
An additional round of Regional and Remote funding under the Recycling Modernisation Fund was also made available to address waste infrastructure gaps in regional and remote areas of Australia. This funding increased the sorting, processing, and manufacturing or remanufacturing capacity of regional and remote locations.
For more information, visit the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
Victorian funding
The Recycling Modernisation Fund was distributed by state and territory governments. Funding allocated to Victoria from the Recycling Modernisation Fund was be delivered via the Victorian Circular Economy Recycling Modernisation Fund.
This grant provided funding for infrastructure projects that address the specific national waste export bans for:
- 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.
Successful applicants were required to co-contribute $1: $1: $1 ($1 from the applicant, $1 from Sustainability Victoria and $1 from the Commonwealth)
These projects were co-funded by the Victorian Government and the Australian Government.
Fund recipients
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$1.4 million was awarded to 3 projects under Round 4. This included $103,334 awarded to one project being delivered under the Market Acceleration Program and co-funded through the Recycling Modernisation Fund.
Announcement date: 5 March 2024
Australian Ewaste Recycling
Project: AusEwaste Plastic E-Waste Recycling Plant in Victoria
Expand Australian Ewaste Recycling's capacity to separate plastics from ewaste and produce flake and pellets for reuse into new products.
Funding: $250,000.
Australian Paper Recovery Pty Ltd
Project: Sorting Facility Upgrade for Australian Paper Recovery Dandenong South Site
Upgrade of APR's sorting facility, to install a new infrared process in Australia to improve the separation and quality of difficult to recover soft plastics.
Funding: $1,000,000.
Corex Recycling Pty Ltd
Project: DiversiCor. Converting waste to worth.
Install new equipment that will enable recovery of highly contaminated soft plastic waste and maintain the highest level of end product purity.
Funding: $103,334.
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$140,000 was awarded to one project under Round 3.
EQ Plastics
Project: Extrusion line to produce PCR PET films.
Installing a new extrusion line to produce new PET rigid films using locally recycled PET material for the packaging industry.
Funding: $140,000.
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$19.9 million was awarded to 9 projects under Round 2, including 2 projects awarded funding under the Recycling Modernisation Fund – regional and remote funding round.
Corex Recycling Pty Ltd
Project: Project Succeed.
New equipment for processing difficult-to-recycle plastics (such as coat hangers and car bumper bars) for remanufacturing.
Funding: $286,746.66.
Fulton Hogan Industries Pty Ltd
Project: Fulton Hogan Warrnambool Glass Processing Hub.
Creating a new regional glass processing hub at their Warrnambool Asphalt Plant, which will recycle glass for use in local roads.
Funding: $740,000.
Garden City Planters Pty Ltd
Project: Upgrade and expansion of plastic product manufacturing.
Expanding Garden City Planters’ Dandenong facility, with the installation of new equipment which will increase the use of recycled plastic in their production of plant pots.
Funding: $5,315,975.
J. J. Richards & Sons Pty Ltd
Project: Wangaratta and Bendigo materials recovery facility (MRF) upgrades.
Upgrading facilities in Bendigo and Wangaratta, including by installing glass decontamination equipment to enable the use of recycled glass in constructing local roads.
Funding: $225,350.
Plasgain Pty Ltd
Project: Waste plastic to corrugated pipe project.
Purchasing new manufacturing equipment to produce corrugated pipe from recycled plastic.
Funding: $251,064.
Pro-Pac Group Pty Ltd (Integrated Recycling)
Project: Production line for recycling plastic sleepers.
installing a modular production line at Integrated Recycling’s Mildura facility that will enable waste plastic to be recycled into Duratrack plastic railway sleepers.
Funding: $1,453,057.47.
Polymer Processors Pty Ltd
Project: Expansion of plastics reprocessing facility.
Increasing Polymer Processors’ capacity to reprocess hard and soft post-consumer plastics into pellets for manufacturing.
Funding: $9,708,487.
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$4.5 million was awarded to 4 infrastructure projects under Round 1.
Announcement date: 18 January 2021.
Circular Plastics Australia (PE) VIC Pty Ltd
Project: Post-consumer plastics reprocessing plant: An end-to-end solution.
Building a facility capable of processing 20,000 tonnes of plastic per annum. Circular Plastics Australia (PE) VIC Pty Ltd, a joint venture between Cleanaway and Pact Group.
Funding: $3,000,000.
Repurpose It
Project: Plant Capacity Optimisation – Waste Glass Recovery.
Installing an additional centrifuge to increase processing capacity at Repurpose It’s Epping plant.
Funding: $166,375.
Socobell O.E.M Pty Ltd
Project: CLEVA POD Recycled Plastic Void Former System for Concrete Foundations.
Installing a patented new CLEVA POD void forming system, which creates concrete slab foundations made from 100% recycled plastic – which will be marketed to the construction industry.
Funding: $847,961.
Wheelie Waste Pty Ltd
Project: Wheelie Waste Warrnambool Recycling Facility.
Constructing a new facility that will sort and process glass as well as bale paper and plastic for transport.
Funding: $481,800.
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ASQ Group Pty Ltd
Project: ASQ Glass Washing Facility.
Installing a new glass washing facility at their existing recycling and glass crushing plant in California Gully, to remove sugars, yeast and organic contaminants from the glass and produce a higher quality glass sand product.
Funding: $848,000.
Tambo Waste Pty Ltd
Project: Tambo Waste MRF Upgrade & Glass Recycling Operation.
Upgrading and expanding the Materials Recovery Facility in Bairnsdale with the establishment of a glass recycling facility, improving recovery, processing and the end uses for recyclables in the region.
Funding: $1,027,375.
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Circular Plastics Australia (PET) VIC Pty Ltd
Project: Victorian PET Recycling Plant.
Establishing a PET recycling plant in Melbourne to recycle up to 26,000 tonnes of collected used plastic bottles into PET pellets each year, for use within Coca-Cola, Asahi Beverages and Pact Group’s own packaging. Circular Plastics Australia (PET) VIC Pty Ltd, a joint venture between Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, Asahi Beverages, Pact Group and Cleanaway.
Funding: $6,000,000.
GT Recycling Unit Trust
Project: Flexible Plastic Capacity and Technology Upgrade Project.
Expanding their plastics recycling facility in Geelong to reprocess an additional 8,000 tonnes of plastic, including soft plastics, per annum.
Funding: $3,000,000.
Kantfield Pty Ltd (Martogg & Company)
Project: Martogg Hot Wash Flake plant.
Establishing a new plant that will take 24,700 tonnes of mixed plastic each year and create food grade plastics that will be turned into new plastic packaging.
Funding: $6,000,000
Visy Industries Australia Pty Ltd
Project: Project Zepplin.
Installing advanced Drum Pulping technology to recycle 95,000 tonnes of mixed kerbside paper each year.
Funding: $24,000,000.
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