The Victorian Government has announced an $11.5 million funding package to improve recycling infrastructure across the state. The spending package follows a $13.8 million in infrastructure funding under the State Government’s Conserve Invest and Save strategy.

 

The latest round of funding includes:

  • $5 million for Round 2 of the Driving Investment in New Recycling (DINR) fund through grants and;
  • $6.5 million for Resource Recovery Infrastructure (RRI) at landfills, which will target large scale projects.

 

"We are continuing our reinvestment of the landfill levy back into the waste management industry to improve our capacity to sort and recover resources that would otherwise be sent to landfill," State Minister for the Environment Ryan Smith said.

 

"Funding will be available to local government, private industry, waste management groups and non-profit organisations working in recovery and recycling.”

 

The programs will be offered through a two-stage assessment process, an Expression of Interest (EOI) phase followed by a detailed application from successful EOI applicants. The phase one EOI will be open for application in late July 2012.