Funding to increase the management and recovery of hazardous waste

Sustainability Victoria is announcing an additional $4.5 million in grant funding to support hazardous waste infrastructure projects.

Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund: Hazardous Waste – Round 3

Funding is available to industry (including for profit and not-for-profit organisations) and local government. 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.

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.

About Recycling Victoria

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

The Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund 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 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.

Grant applications close at 11:59 pm, 25 July 2023.

For more information, visit Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund: Hazardous Waste – Round 3.