Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund: Hazardous Waste – Round 2 – Funded projects

Last updated: 28 October 2022
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Number of recipients to date: 4
Total funding awarded to date: $4,705,454
All projects to be completed by: March 2024
Prior to 1 July 2022, this fund was named the Recycling Victoria Infrastructure Fund: Hazardous Waste stream.

The Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund aims to assist businesses and local government to increase the capacity and capability of Victoria’s resource recovery sector and recover high quality products.

The hazardous waste stream funds projects that will achieve one or more of the following outcomes:

  • Diversion of wastes from Category B landfill disposal.
  • Increased diversion of low-level contaminated soils from landfill disposal.
  • Increased recovery of hazardous wastes for reuse, recycling or energy recovery.
  • Improved management of hazardous wastes for reuse, recycling or energy recovery.

For background, view the Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund: Hazardous Waste – Round 2 guidelines.

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Fund recipients

Announcement date: 20 October 2022.

PFAS treatment plant using ozofractionation technology
Project lead: Cleanaway Pty Ltd (Cleanaway)
Status: In progress
Funding source: Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund: Hazardous Waste – Round 2
Funding amount: $826,867
Cleanaway will build a new ozofractionation plant at their Campbellfield site to treat PFAS contaminated water.
Victoria Campbellfield PFAS treatment plant Cleanaway Hazardous waste Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund
Reactor for safe disposal of end-of-life chemicals
Project lead: Cleanaway Pty Ltd (Cleanaway)
Status: In progress
Funding source: Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund: Hazardous Waste – Round 2
Funding amount: $1,056,187
Cleanaway will build a new Toxshield Reactor at their Laverton North site to enable the safe disposal of highly reactive, end-of-life chemicals.
Victoria Cleanaway Hazardous waste Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund Toxshield reactor Laverton North
Contaminated soil washing technology
Project lead: EarthSure
Status: In progress
Funding source: Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund: Hazardous Waste – Round 2
Funding amount: $1,155,846
Establishing a soil washing plant to transform contaminated soils into re-usable aggregate, sand and road base.
Victoria Hazardous waste Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund Veolia Soil Earthsure
Hazardous liquid waste processing plant upgrade
Project lead: Veolia Environmental Services (Australia) Pty Ltd (Veolia)
Status: In progress
Funding source: Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund: Hazardous Waste – Round 2
Funding amount: $1,666,554
Replacement and upgrade of the existing liquid waste processing plant in Brooklyn, Victoria, with a more efficient, modern and automated plant.
Victoria Hazardous waste Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund Liquid waste plant Veolia Brooklyn

More information

This grant program is closed, but you can email us if you have any queries.

Contact:

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