Investment Support Grant – Packaging Round 2
Last updated: 3 March 2025
Status:
Applications closed
Closing date:
Thursday 30 September 2021, 11:59 pm
Available to:
Businesses, Social enterprises, Not-for-profit organisations
The Investment Support Grant – Packaging supported small and medium enterprises, not-for-profits and social enterprises to pursue packaging waste reduction or recovery opportunities.
This grant was part of the Recycling Victoria policy funding.
Fund recipients
View the funded projects.
Fund objectives
The fund supported businesses and organisations that generate, recover or reuse packaging waste to transition to more circular business models or activities. It supported purchasing of equipment and infrastructure to enable and accelerate the diversion of packaging waste from landfill. It preferenced projects that create new products using packaging waste.
Projects were required to either:
- reduce generation of packaging waste
- increase or improve recovery of packaging waste
- manufacture packaging using recovered materials
- manufacture new products using packaging waste.
The fund aimed to:
- divert 6,000 tonnes of packaging waste from landfill
- create 30 new full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs
- have at least 50% of grantees produce new products using packaging waste.
Funding available
Grants of between $10,000 and $50,000 were available per project.