Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund: Hazardous Waste – Round 2
Sustainability Victoria is supporting businesses and local government through the Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund: Hazardous Waste – Round 2. The 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.
This grant is part of the Recycling Victoria policy funding.
Fund recipients
For information on the fund recipients. Visit Circular Economy Infrastructure Fund: Hazardous Waste – Round 2 – Funded projects.
Fund overview
The hazardous waste stream is available to fund infrastructure projects that target low-level contaminated soils and reportable priority waste.
Funding is available to businesses (domestic and international) and local government that have existing hazardous waste facilities in Victoria or are proposing a new facility to be located in Victoria.
Read the Environment Protection Authority’s classifications for prescribed industrial waste, including reuse, disposal, temporary storage and contaminated soil. Please note: only low-level contaminated soils and reportable priority waste projects are eligible for this fund. Reportable priority waste must be defined as a transaction and transport reportable priority waste to be eligible for this funding.
Fund objectives
The Recycling Victoria Infrastructure Fund objectives are to:
- increase the recovery and local reprocessing of hazardous waste, and to manage this material 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.
The hazardous waste stream is seeking projects that will achieve one or more of the following outcomes:
a. Diversion of wastes from Category B landfill disposal.
b. Increased diversion of low-level contaminated soils from landfill disposal.
c. Increased recovery of hazardous wastes for reuse, recycling or energy recovery.
d. Improved management of hazardous wastes for reuse, recycling or energy recovery.
Projects to increase landfill airspace will not be considered but infrastructure that achieve fund outcomes in 2.3 What will be funded may be co-located at landfills.
Funding available
There is no funding cap per project. The total funding available for this grant round is $9.7 million.
Co-contribution
Applicants are required to meet the following minimum cash contribution:
Industry must co-contribute at least $3 for every $1 funded.
Local government must co-contribute at least $2 for every $1 funded.
Funding from other government sources (including federal, state or local) cannot be included in your co-contribution.
Funding conditions
Successful applicants approved for funding must do the following.
Before starting the project
- Participate in an inception meeting to discuss project and funding agreement.
- Determine roles and responsibilities with clear expectations of funding
- 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 30 days of approval.
- Provide a project plan.
- 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.
During and after the project
- Deliver the project as outlined in the application and comply with the funding agreement.
- Contribute to regular project progress update, meetings and site inspections.
- 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. 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.
Timeline
Dates may change.
Why the Victorian Government provided this funding
This funding was 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.
Recycling Victoria will fundamentally:
- reduce waste
- boost jobs
- establish a recycling system Victorians can rely on.
The Recycling Victoria Infrastructure Fund addressed urgent challenges that have caused disruption to Victoria’s recycling services. Investing in priority infrastructure:
- supports increase recycling
- responds to new bans on waste export
- safely manages hazardous waste.