Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund: Materials – Funded projects
The Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund: Materials stream supports infrastructure projects that increase capacity and improve the recovery of paper and cardboard, plastics, glass, tyres, organics and textiles.
$6.4 million has been awarded to 7 infrastructure projects that will increase Victoria’s capacity to process and recycle glass, organic, plastics, paper and carboard waste from the state.
The funded projects will create more than 81 new ongoing full-time jobs and increase processing capacity for these materials by almost 290,000 tonnes per year, as well as increasing the quality of recycled glass and organics products for reuse.
For background, view the Materials recycling infrastructure funding guidelines.
Fund recipients
Announcement date: 12 November 2021
Citywide Service Solutions Pty Ltd
Citywide will build a new facility in West Melbourne to recycle glass into glass sand and glass fines, which will be used in roads or turned into products like fibreglass.
Funding: $582,400
Pinegro Products Pty Ltd
An enclosed composting facility will be built in Gippsland to process kerbside food organics, garden organics, and commercial food waste.
Funding: $2,000,000
Rural City of Wangaratta
The funding will be used to expand the processing capacity of the Wangaratta Organics Processing Facility.
Funding: $381,000
Van Schaik’s Bio Gro Pty Ltd
Bio Gro will establish a new Regional Organics Recovery Facility in the Colac Otway region to process kerbside and commercial organics.
Funding: $1,669,500
Van Schaik’s Bio Gro Pty Ltd
The funding will be used to expand the processing capacity of Bio Gro’s Dandenong South Organics Processing Facility.
Funding: $600,790
Upcycled Building Materials Australia Pty Ltd
Upcycled Building Materials Australia will establish a new saveBOARD facility in Campbellfield. The facility will upcycle liquid paperboard beverage containers, coffee cups, soft plastics and other used packaging into sustainable building products.
Funding: $1,000,000
Manningtree Corporation Pty Ltd
Manningtree Corporation will establish a portable biochar unit at its Elmore Compost and Organics facility to thermally process oversized green waste and produce biochar, wood vinegar, tar and liquid biochar. These products will provide organic, carbon rich, soil additives for the farming industry.
Funding: $175,000
More information
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