Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund: Hazardous Waste – Round 3

Sustainability Victoria (SV) is supporting industry and local government through the Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund (CEIF): Hazardous Waste – Round 3. The fund aims to build the capacity, capability, and resilience of Victoria’s resource recovery sector to increase local reprocessing of hazardous waste and improve the use and quality of recycled materials to make new products.

This grant is funded through the government’s circular economy policy Recycling Victoria: a new economy,

Applications must be submitted by 11:59 pm, Tuesday 25 July 2023. Late applications will not be accepted except under exceptional circumstances.

The following are the guidelines for applying for this fund.

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1. Fund overview

The hazardous waste stream will fund infrastructure projects focused on safe management and high value recovery (where possible) of low-level contaminated soils, Reportable Priority Wastes (RPW) and specified priority wastes (see target materials listed in section 2.3).

Applicants have the opportunity to propose both proven and innovative technology solutions for the Victorian hazardous waste sector.

Funding is available to industry (see definition in section 9) and local government that have been operating for a minimum of 2 years in Australia and either operates an existing hazardous waste reprocessing, recycling or treatment facility in Victoria or are proposing a new hazardous waste reprocessing, recycling, or treatment facility to be located in Victoria.

1.1 Fund objectives

Projects must meet 2 or more of the fund objectives:

• Increase the recovery and local reprocessing of hazardous waste, and to manage those materials in line with the waste hierarchy.

• Increase the use and quality of recycled materials for remanufacturing and to make new products.

• Increase economic development opportunities such as jobs, economic performance and growth of precincts.

• Reduce the amount and impact of waste going to landfill.

CEIF Hazardous Waste Round 3 is seeking projects that will achieve one or more of the following outcomes:

1. Diversion of wastes from Category B landfill disposal.
2. Increased diversion of low-level (Category C and D) contaminated soils (and spoils) from landfill disposal.
3. Increased recovery of solvents and other hazardous wastes for reuse, recycling, or energy recovery.
4. Improved management of hazardous wastes for reuse, recycling, or energy recovery; including short-term storage, and recovery or treatment facilities. Short-term storage infrastructure will only be funded for projects targeting both storage and recovery infrastructure.

1.2 Funding available

Total available grant funding for Round 3 is $4,500,000.

There is no funding cap per project.

Notification of outcome will be delayed for funding requests of $2 million or more as these requests have additional approval requirements.

1.3 Co-contribution

Applicants are required to meet the following minimum cash contribution:

• Industry must co-contribute at least $2 for every $1 funded.
• Local government must co-contribute at least $1 for every $1 funded.

Investment leverage will be a key consideration as part of application assessments. Higher investment from the Applicant will be looked upon more favourably.

Co-contribution must be financial (cash) and cannot include In-kind contributions.

Other grant funding including from federal, state, or local government cannot be counted toward Applicant’s co-contribution.

2. Eligibility

2.1 Who can apply

An eligible organisation must be one of the following organisation types:

• Industry
• Local government

That have existing hazardous waste reprocessing, recycling or treatment facility in Victoria or are proposing a new hazardous waste reprocessing, recycling or treatment waste facility to be located in Victoria and have been operating for a minimum of 2 years in Australia.

Applicants must:

• have a current Australian Business Number (ABN). If the Applicant is a Trust, the Trust as the trading entity must meet this requirement
• have a joint venture partner with an ABN if a joint venture
• have been operating for a minimum of 2 years in Australia by the application closing date (to be validated by the date that the organisation’s ABN is active from). Except that if the Applicant is a joint venture company created for the project, or a Related Entity of an established and experienced industry operator, in which case SV may choose to accept the Applicant’s eligibility, but if so, SV will require the Related Entity, the experienced industry operator, to pass due diligence checks.
• be able to demonstrate financial viability to undertake the project (must meet or exceed the minimum co-contribution requirements)
• agree to comply with the Terms of Participation in Grant Programs
• agree to comply with the funding terms and conditions:
  • for grants $50,000 or less read the Short-form grant funding agreement
  • for grants more than $50,000 read the General grant funding agreement
• submit their Fair Jobs Code Pre-Assessment Certificate number with their application if applying for $500,000 or more (exclusive of GST). At a minimum proof of application for the Certificate must be submitted with their grant application if Certificate has not been received when application closes
• demonstrate financial capability to undertake the project
• demonstrate market supply of the material feedstocks and demand for the processed products. Applications with secured feedstock and end markets will be assessed more favourably by the assessment panel.

Eligible Applicants may be consortia, however SV will only contract with one organisation. The consortium must name a lead partner who will enter into a funding agreement with SV (usually the partner purchasing the infrastructure). Research institutions and individuals are not eligible for funding.

If the Applicant is a Trust, the funding agreement must be executed by the Trustee of the Trust for example XYZ Pty Ltd as The Trustee for the XYZ Trust. The Trust as the trading entity must meet all the eligibility requirements of the fund (for example ABN).

Demonstration of a stable and ongoing funding source will be considered favourably in the assessment of not-for-profit organisations.

Funding will be targeted at projects that are unlikely to proceed without government financial assistance or may have the financial means to only proceed at a much later date or with limited scope.

Applicants who do not agree with the Grant Funding Agreement Terms and Conditions will be asked to provide full details of proposed amendments that would render the contractual provision acceptable to the Applicant in the SmartyGrants application form. Applicants should note that significant or substantive variations will not be viewed favourably unless the Applicant is able to demonstrate the necessity for such variations. Should an Applicant be successful, no further amendments to SV’s standard terms and conditions will be considered beyond the variations included in the application form.

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations.

Sustainability Victoria manages several grants. Although you can apply for more than one grant for a project, you can only receive one grant. If you’ve already applied for a Sustainability Victoria grant and now find this grant is more relevant or suitable, you can withdraw your application by emailing grantsenquiries@sustainability.vic.gov.au.

2.2 Who cannot apply

The following Applicants will not be funded:

• Research institutions
• Individuals
• Unincorporated entities

2.3 What will be funded

Funding aims to:

• diversify and attract new investment to increase the quality of hazardous wastes recovered for recycling

• attract reprocessing infrastructure to increase the quantity of materials re-entering manufacturing streams and improving the circularity of materials.

Funding will focus on:

• capital purchases, installation and commissioning of infrastructure or equipment
• pre-construction (site preparation) such as site clearing, earthworks or site accessibility works directly associated with the installation of new equipment

• construction/modification of buildings to house the new equipment (pre-construction works through to commissioning stage).

Funding will be provided for:

• new equipment, new facility or upgrade of existing facilities to increase domestic recovery of contaminated soils, RPW and specified priority wastes (see target materials list below in this section).

Projects must:

• be located in Victoria
• be commissioned and operational/completed by 31 May 2025
• meet regulatory or planning requirements and are not being undertaken to comply with regulation or a regulatory notice or order
• have outcomes that are directly attributable to the SV grant funding
• not be seeking funding for research, demonstration and development
• not have received funding or support for the same activities from other sources.

The projects need to meet one or more of the below fund outcomes:

a. Diversion of wastes from Category B landfill disposal

Treatment technologies that will enable recovery and reuse including:

• Waste to Energy and Process Derived Fuel

• Treatment that reduces contamination to achieve Category C disposal requirements.

b. Increased diversion of low-level (Category C and Category D) contaminated soils from landfill disposal

• Treatment to enable reuse (on or off site).

• Mobile and relocatable treatment equipment.

• Treatment at site of generation to reduce Category C to Category D to enable on-site containment under permit.

• Technologies to support the containment under permit at generation site of Category D soils.

• Short-term storage facilities to de-water, categorise soils and aggregate volumes for further management.

c. Increased recovery of hazardous wastes for reuse, recycling or energy recovery

Funding can be for new or an expansion or upgrade of existing infrastructure and will need to achieve one or more of the following:

• Increased recovery of hazardous wastes for reuse, recycling, Waste to Energy or Process Derived Fuels.

• Increased diversion from landfill.

• Improved ability to manage feedstock or market fluctuations (volumes and/or quality).

• Improved quality of end product.

• Increased market offerings or reduced reliance on interstate infrastructure.

d. Improved management of system resilience for reuse, recycling or energy recovery

• Collection, short-term storage, and recovery or treatment facilities.

• Short-term storage can be for waste consolidation prior to transport for treatment, managing feedstock fluctuations, post- processing and before transport to market.

Please note: Short-term storage infrastructure will only be funded for projects targeting both storage and recovery infrastructure.

In general, grant funding will not be provided to projects that commence prior to entering into a funding agreement.

However, after submitting their application and prior to receiving a formal written notification from SV that their application is successful, an Applicant may at their own risk:

• order and/or purchase equipment
• commence civil works
• assemble infrastructure.

Prior to executing the funding agreement with SV, Applicants must not commission, electrically and/or hydraulically connect or commence operating equipment.

The Applicant must notify SV in writing of any project related activities that need to commence before entering into contract. Failure to notify SV prior to the commencement of any project related activities could result in the project activities becoming ineligible for funding.

You can submit multiple applications. Each application must be for a different project. An application must not be for multiple projects.

Target materials

All wastes currently categorised as RPW and some priority wastes as listed below, excluding those covered by other outcomes.

Refer to the Environment Protection Authority’s Waste classification assessment protocol to determine if your waste is RPW.

RPW including but not limited to:

• low -level contaminated soils

• asbestos contaminated soils

• solvents (including wastes from laundry and dry-cleaning process)

• grease-trap wastes (K110)

• clinical wastes (R100, R120, R130, R140)

• biosolids (K400-H)

• waste oil and water mixtures (J120)

• asbestos containing materials (ACMs).

Priority waste limited to:

• treated timbers (K310-H)

• biosolids (K-400-NH)

• lithium batteries

• brominated and flame-retardant plastics (BFRs).

2.4 What will not be funded

The following project types are ineligible for funding:

• research projects
• options for increasing landfill airspace will not be considered but infrastructure may be co-located at landfill.

Funding will not be provided for projects that:

• have commenced prior to signing the funding agreement with SV (if Applicants fail to execute a funding agreement with SV within 60 days of being notified in writing that their grant application has been successful, their eligible costs will not be reimbursed)
• are undertaken solely to increase landfill airspace, however infrastructure may be co-located at landfills
• focus on materials not listed in these guidelines
• do not meet the eligibility criteria of the fund
• do not clearly demonstrate a need for government support
• are being undertaken solely in order to comply with regulation or a regulatory notice or order
• have received funding or support for the same activities from other sources
• don’t meet regulatory or planning requirements.

Please note:

‘Project commencement’ includes commissioning, electrically and/or hydraulically connecting or commencing operating equipment (refer to section 2.3 for project related activities that can be undertaken prior to signing the funding agreement with SV and at Applicant’s own risk)

The following costs are ineligible for funding:

• In-kind contributions
• Requests for assistance in managing cash flow
• Lease or purchase of land
• Routine or cyclical maintenance works
• Ongoing operational costs such as, but not limited to, salaries, electricity, water and other utilities
• Purchase or lease of vehicles and equipment not dedicated to the project purpose (for example, vehicles including front end loaders, forklifts etc)
• Projects that involve the repair of facilities damaged by vandalism, fire or other natural disasters where the damage should be covered by insurance
• Security such as fencing, cameras and alarm systems
• Business case development
• Feasibility studies
• Research, demonstration and development
• Consultancy or contract work
• Permit, licensing and approval costs
• Project management costs
• Marketing, advertising, promotional costs; and other educational activities
• Contingency costs
• Fuel and other travel costs.

3. Assessment process

3.1 Assessment criteria

Projects will be assessed against merit-based criteria and preference will be given to projects providing higher order recovery (where applicable), based on treatment options and management methods that align with the waste hierarchy:

• avoidance
• reuse
• recycling
• recovery of energy
• treatment
• containment
• disposal

What

Weighting: 30%

Projects must meet 2 or more of the fund objectives:

• Increase the recovery and local reprocessing of hazardous waste, and to manage those materials in line with the waste hierarchy.

• Increase the use and quality of recycled materials for remanufacturing and to make new products.

• Increase economic development opportunities such as jobs, economic performance and growth of precincts.

• Reduce the amount and impact of waste going to landfill.

The project is viable, including a demonstration of:

• technology
• infrastructure
• feedstock
• improved management of hazardous waste
• higher order recovery (where applicable) including:
  • outputs (where applicable)
  • end markets and offtake agreements
• objectives of the proposed project aligning with the strategic priorities of Applicant's organisation.

How

Weighting: 30%

Demonstrate how to successfully deliver the project including:

• approved internal business case
• feasibility to deliver milestones within the timeframe
• appropriate site considerations
• regulatory, statutory and works approvals will be achieved
• financial viability demonstrated through financial assessment:
  • level and certainty of the whole-of-life cost of the project
  • the level and appropriateness of financial support provided
  • maximises public value and private sector co-investment
• risk identification and appropriate mitigation measures
• a strong monitoring and evaluation framework to track performance.

Who

Weighting: 20%

Demonstrate the participants’ capability and capacity to successfully deliver the project including:

• Applicant’s capability and capacity to deliver the project
• appropriate governance structure to support the implementation of the project
• project partner(s)’ capability to deliver the project
• appropriate commercial structures and contractual agreements
• stakeholder engagement considerations to support the implementation of the project.

Why

Weighting: 20%

Demonstrate why the project is needed including:

• the need for government financial assistance, including any impacts on scope and timing if not funded
• economic benefit (including value for money for Victorians and potential leveraged funding)
• social benefit
• public health and environmental benefit
• policy and regulatory alignment.

3.2 Diversity consideration

SV may overlay rankings to achieve an overall mix of projects that represent:

• a geographical spread across Victorian regions
• a mix of project types (for example, Projects that increase sector diversity and resilience of markets).

3.3 Due diligence checks

A risk-based approach will be used to assess the Applicant’s social, economic, safety and environmental risks in relation to the project. This assessment will include the Applicant’s Related Entities and may include Project Partners and/or Project Participants (see Section 9: Program definitions).

Applicants (and their Related Entities and, if applicable, their Project Partners and/or Project Participants) must:

• have had no Environmental, Safety or Workplace Breaches in the last five years or, if there was a breach, Sustainability Victoria may assess that the Applicant’s breach poses a satisfactory level of risk
• have not been the subject of an enforceable undertaking or successful litigation by the Fair Work Ombudsman for a breach of the Fair Work Act 2009 or a fair work instrument within the last five years
• demonstrate financial capability to undertake the project
• have adequate insurance as outlined in the funding agreement such as:
  • Public liability $20M minimum
  • Professional indemnity $5M minimum (if required)
  • WorkCover
• have not failed to satisfactorily progress or complete previous projects funded by Sustainability Victoria within funding program timelines and without sufficient reason
• manage any conflicts of interest adequately.

Assessment of satisfactory level of risk will include but not be limited to Sustainability Victoria’s consideration of:

• the seriousness of any finding/s
• whether the finding/s has been resolved to the satisfaction of the relevant enforcement agency, or the Applicant can demonstrate it is working effectively to resolve the finding
• the efforts made by the Applicant including implementation of management systems, to ensure no further finding/s occur
• whether, since the finding, the Applicant has had a satisfactory level of compliance with relevant Environmental and Safety Laws and Workplace Laws.

Sustainability Victoria may conduct due diligence checks on the Project Partners and/or Project Participants involved in the delivery of the project. The Applicant must ensure that any Project Partners and/or Project Participants agree to cooperate with this requirement and will provide information at Sustainability Victoria’s request.

Sustainability Victoria reserves the right not to award funding to Applicants where the due diligence risk (including that of Project Partners and Project Participants) is unsatisfactory or not able to be managed.

4. Funding conditions

Successful Applicants approved for funding must:

Before starting the project

• Participate in an inception meeting to discuss their project and the funding agreement.
• Provide Sustainability Victoria pre-funding documentation as discussed in inception meeting.
• Agree to realistic evidence-based and performance-based milestone payments.
• Provide Sustainability Victoria with insurance certificates of currency.
• Sign Sustainability Victoria’s funding agreement within 60 days of approval.
• Provide a project plan and deliver the project as outlined in the application and comply with the funding agreement.
• If you receive funding of more than $250,000, plan for capital works signage.
• If your project is based in metropolitan Melbourne or across Victoria, and is given funding of at least $3 million, you need to meet Local Jobs First requirements.
• If your project is in regional Victoria, and is given funding of at least $1 million, you need to meet Local Jobs First requirements.
• Notify SV in writing of any project related activities that need to commence before entering into contract. Failure to notify SV prior to the commencement of any project related activities could result in the project activities becoming ineligible for funding (refer to section 2.3 for project related activities that can be undertaken prior to signing the funding agreement with SV and at Applicant’s own risk).

During and after the project

• Deliver the project as outlined in the application and comply with the funding agreement.
• Contribute to regular project progress updates or meetings.
• Notify Sustainability Victoria immediately about any delay or change to the project.
• Provide update reports to Sustainability Victoria at agreed milestones with evidence of expenditure, progress and performance.
• Provide adequate monitoring and evaluation of the project according to the funding agreement.
• Collect and release data to Sustainability Victoria for up to 5 years after project completion. Sustainability Victoria may share or report on the data.
• Contribute to the project’s promotional activities (for example, provide Sustainability Victoria with support by reviewing and approving written stories or videos).
• Participate in and contribute to Sustainability Victoria activities to distribute the findings to broader stakeholders (for example, government and industry).
• Acknowledge that Sustainability Victoria has contributed funding in all communications related to the project.

5. Timeline

Dates may change.

There is no date for the announcement of application outcomes. We will provide Applicants with updates as much as possible and when necessary.

Applications open: 14 June 2023

Applications close: 25 July 2023

Information session: Tuesday 20 June 2023 and Thursday 29 June 2023

Notification of outcome*: estimated November 2023

Funding agreements established by: March 2024

Projects commenced by: April 2024

Project completed by: 31 May 2025

*Notification of outcome will be delayed for funding requests of 2 million or more as these requests have additional approval requirements.

6. How to apply

Before applying, we recommend you attend an information session.

The grant program involves a competitive, merit-based application process.

1. Ensure that your organisation can apply.
2. Ensure that your project meets the criteria for funding.
   
3. Read Sustainability Victoria’s funding agreement. You must meet the terms and conditions to ensure funding.
   1. For grants $50,000 or less read the Short-form grant funding agreement.
   2. For grants more than $50,000 read the General grant funding agreement.
4. Read Sustainability Victoria’s Terms of participation in grant programs.
5. Create an account and start your application on the SmartyGrants website.
6. Submit your Fair Jobs Code Pre-Assessment Certificate if required, with the application. At a minimum proof of application for the Certificate must be submitted with the grant application if Certificate has not been received when application closes.
7. Submit your application by 11:59 pm, 25 July 2023. Late applications will not be accepted except under exceptional circumstances.

Your application

• Allow adequate time to plan, research, gather supporting documentation and draft your application.
• As this is a competitive grant, we cannot review drafts or provide feedback.
• You must use SmartyGrants, unless you have written permission from Sustainability Victoria.

7. Assistance available

7.1 Information sessions

There will be 2 information sessions.

Sessions will be online via Teams. A recording will be available after the session.

Session 1 was held on Tuesday 20 June 2023.

Session 2 Date: Thursday 29 June 2023.

Time: 11 am to 12 pm AEST.

7.2 Contact us

For questions specifically related to this program, please contact SV on:

Phone: +61 3 8656 6757 Monday to Friday, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.

Email: grants.enquiries@sustainability.vic.gov.au

In the subject line, use the grant name: CEIF – Hazardous Waste Round 3.

The Grants Team cannot review drafts or provide feedback. Please see section 7.3 below if you require assistance with your application.

7.3 Investment facilitation

We recommend Applicants to engage with Sustainability Victoria’s investment support services before submitting their application to ensure their project is investment ready and set up for success. Sustainability Victoria offers an investment facilitation service for projects that increase Victoria’s resource recovery sector.

Read about our free Application Review and Advisory Service.

Investment facilitation support services is separate and removed from the panel evaluation scoring process.

Use of this service does not guarantee any level of success with any application.

8. Why the Victorian Government is providing this funding

The Industry and Infrastructure Development Fund (IIDP) that includes the Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund (CEIF) is designed to increase the capacity and capability of Victoria’s resource recovery sector, and to viably increase the recycling of resources for use in the Victorian economy.

The Recycling Industry Strategic Plan (RISP) and the Recycling Victoria – a new economy policy, identified opportunities for significant expansion in Victoria’s capacity to process and reprocess mixed, contaminated kerbside materials such as paper and cardboard, glass, plastics, and hazardous waste.

This funding is offered as part of the Victorian Government’s $515 million investment to deliver the biggest transformation and reform of Victoria’s waste and recycling industry. This includes $380 million to deliver Recycling Victoria

Investment in priority infrastructure will support increased recycling and respond to new bans on waste export to safely manage hazardous waste. The fund will also target, where appropriate, increased market diversity and competition in areas, where market consolidation poses a risk to continuity of service.

The fund also contributes to the government’s State-wide Waste and Resource Recovery Infrastructure Plan (SWRRIP) and the currently under development Victorian Recycling Infrastructure Plan (VRIP) that will replace the SWRRIP and provides a 30-year vision and guide for future planning for waste and resource recovery infrastructure to achieve an integrated system.

9. Definitions

Applicant

The applicant who applies for the funding and is responsible for all details in the submission of an application and the contractual obligations under the funding agreement with Sustainability Victoria if successful for grant funding. Applicants must be legally constituted organisations and with a current ABN that has been active for a minimum of 2 years by the application closing date.

Business
A commercial enterprise seeking to generate profit through its activities, including Social Enterprises.

Charity
A Charity is an organisation that is not-for-profit and has only charitable purposes that are for the public benefit. A Charity must not be an individual, political party or government entity, and must be registered on the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Charity Register.

Co-contribution

The Applicant’s required financial cash contribution to the total project income. Co- contributions must be for eligible activities.

Collaborative Partnership

A relationship established between a Lead Applicant and Project Partner/s for the purposes of meeting common project objectives and outcomes. Collaborative Partnerships need to be demonstrated by a formal agreement between the partners that outlines the governance, financial and intellectual property arrangements and roles and responsibilities of each party. A formal agreement must either be in place or be finalised before commencement of the project.

Community Group

Any organisation engaged in charitable or other community-based activity operating under Australian law and not established for the purpose of making a profit. This definition can include not-for-profit entities pursuing a range of ‘for-profit’ commercial activities. It can also include organisations engaged in advocacy or other activities that may not be primarily charitable in nature. Unincorporated entities are ineligible to apply.

Direct Jobs

Actual new full-time positions created by your business. This can include training or upskilling of employees who would otherwise be made redundant through the implementation of your project.

End market

The receipt of source-separated recyclable material for utilisation of the material as a finished product or as a raw material for a manufacturing process.

Environmental, Safety or Workplace Breach

An environmental or safety breach is any past or current prosecution, reportable incident, investigation, notice, penalty, warning, regulatory intervention or enforcement action from the Environment Protection Authority (EPA), Victorian WorkCover Authority (WorkSafe) or Fair Work or failure to comply with any environmental, safety and workplace laws.

Environmental and Safety Laws

Environmental and safety laws are the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004, Environment Protection Act 2017 or any other legislation, regulation, order, statute, by-law, ordinance or any other legislative or regulatory measure, code, standard or requirement relating to the protection and safety of persons or property or which regulate the environment including laws relating to land use planning, pollution of air or water, soil or groundwater contamination, chemicals, waste, the use, handling, storage or transport of dangerous goods or substances, greenhouse gas emissions, carbon trading, or any other aspect of protection of the environment.

Feedstock

Hazardous wastes used for process input.

Full-Time Equivalent Employees (FTE)

The hours worked by one employee on a full-time basis.

Calculating FTE

The calculation is used to convert the hours worked by several part-time employees into the hours worked by full-time employees. For example, you have three employees working the following - 40, 40 and 20 hours per week, giving you 100 hours per week in total.

Assuming full-time hours are 40 hours per week, your full-time equivalent calculation is 100 hours divided by 40 hours which equals 2.5 FTE.

Indirect Jobs

Jobs created by other businesses that come into existence due to the economic growth of your business.

Industry

For profit and not-for-profit organisations who have been operating for a minimum of 2 years in Australia.

In-kind Contribution

A contribution of a good or a service other than cash.

In-kind contributions should include the cost for activities that are directly related to delivering your project. Examples include:

• staff time to manage project implementation (project management and installation costs that utilise existing internal resources)
• time spent on project activities by volunteers
• donated goods or services related to the project.

The following activities cannot be considered as In-kind contributions:

• operating expenses that are not directly associated with delivering the project
• opportunity costs such as staff ‘downtime’ during the installation of equipment or implementation of activities.

Note: Under this fund In-kind contributions are ineligible expenditure and cannot be counted toward Applicant’s co-contribution but are acknowledged as project income.

Applicants must fairly justify how they determined the dollar value for In-kind contributions.

Lead Applicant

The listed applicant for the purposes of a Collaborative Partnership. The Lead Applicant will be responsible for all details in the submission of an application and the contractual obligations under the funding agreement with Sustainability Victoria if successful for grant funding. The Lead Applicant is also responsible for managing the project outcomes and deliverables of the Collaborative Partnership.

Liquid hazardous wastes

Liquid wastes regulated under the Environment Protection (Industrial Waste Resource) Regulations 2009 with Victorian EPA waste codes F & G:

• wastes generated from the production, formulation and use of paints, lacquers, varnish, resins, inks, dyes, pigments and adhesives
• organic solvents and solvent residues.

Not-for-profit

A not-for-profit (NFP) organisation is an entity that does not operate for the profit or gain (either direct or indirect) of particular people. Unincorporated entities are ineligible to apply.

Priority waste

Priority waste is a subset of industrial waste such as processed food waste, e-waste and liquid organic wastes. This type of waste has greater regulatory controls and duties because it:

• is prone to mismanagement
• is hazardous to human health or the environment
• has potential for reuse or recycling opportunities.

Process Derived Fuel

A fuel product produced as alternative to conventional fuels from a variety of wastes including waste solvents, oils, organic materials (including timber) and plastics.

Project Participant/s

An organisation engaged by the Applicant to assist in the delivery of the Applicant’s project, including but not limited to major subcontractors, contractors, product suppliers and consultants.

Project Partner/s

An organisation/s in a Collaborative Partnership with a Lead Applicant that have a critical role in the project and a formal commitment to delivering the support required to ensure the project’s success.

Public value

Public value includes a projects ability to:

• achieve objectives of the Recycling Victoria: A new economy policy
• fill a infrastructure capacity gap (as per the Statewide Resource Recovery Infrastructure Plan - to be replaced by the Victorian Recycling Infrastructure Plan)
• Demonstrates reduction in environmental impacts and on human health
• Jobs creation (particularly in regional areas)
• Social and community value and benefit sharing

Related Entities

Entities which are related to the Applicant, including:

• holding companies of the Applicant
• subsidiaries of the Applicant
• subsidiaries of holding companies of the Applicant
• companies with common directors or shareholders as the Applicant
• companies that are a beneficiary under a trust of which the Applicant is a trustee
• trustees of a trust under which the Applicant is a beneficiary
• companies that conduct business at the same address as the Applicant, or the same address as the location of the activity for which the funding is sought.

Related Person/s

Related Person means a director, officer, employee, agent, board member or contractor of the Applicant or a Related Entity.

Reportable Priority Waste (RPW)

Reportable Priority Waste is generally hazardous by nature. It is a subset of priority waste and carries the highest levels of controls. This type of waste poses the greatest level of risk to human health and the environment.

Secondary wastes

Wastes produced as a result of the recycling of solvents wastes, including packaging and distillate by-product.

Social Enterprise

A social enterprise is a business that trades to intentionally tackle social problems, improve communities, provide people access to employment and training, or help the environment.

Social enterprises:

• are driven by a public or community cause, be it social, environmental, cultural or economic
• derive most of their income from trade, not donations or grants
• use the majority (at least 50%) of their profits to work towards their social mission.

Waste to Energy

The term Waste to Energy describes a number of treatment processes and technologies used to generate a usable form of energy from waste materials. Examples of usable forms of energy include electricity, heat and process derived fuels (transport fuels).

Workplace Laws

Workplace laws are the Fair Work Act 2009, or any other legislation, regulation order, statute, by-law, ordinance or any other legislative or regulatory measure, code, standard or requirement relating to the provision of fair, relevant and enforceable minimum terms and conditions for all persons and to prevent discrimination against employees.