Prior to 1 July 2022, this fund was named the Recycling Victoria Recycling Modernisation Fund.
| Number of recipients to date: | 24 |
|---|---|
| Total funding awarded to date: | $67,270,425.66 |
| All projects to be completed by: | 30 April 2027 |
Australian Government Recycling Modernisation Fund
The Recycling Modernisation Fund is an Australian Government initiative that is investing over $190 million to expand Australia’s capacity to sort, process and remanufacture recycled materials such as plastic, paper, cardboard, tyres and glass. The fund will assist Australia to respond to the national regulation of waste exports.
An additional round of Regional and Remote funding under the Recycling Modernisation Fund was also made available to address waste infrastructure gaps in regional and remote areas of Australia. This funding will increase the sorting, processing, and manufacturing or remanufacturing capacity of regional and remote locations.
The Recycling Modernisation Fund is being distributed by state and territory governments. Funding allocated to Victoria from the Recycling Modernisation Fund will be delivered via the Victorian Circular Economy Recycling Modernisation Fund.
For more information, visit the Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
Victorian funding
Funding for infrastructure projects (new infrastructure or upgrades) that:
- address materials subject to the Australian Government’s regulation of waste exports
- increase the capacity and capability of Victoria’s resource recovery sector and/or
- improve the quality of available materials for reprocessing and remanufacturing.
| Funding round | Funding awarded | Number of projects and fund/s |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $4.5 million | 4 infrastructure projects |
| 2 | $18.4 million | 8 projects under Round 2 of the Victorian Circular Economy Recycling Modernisation Fund, including 2 projects awarded funding under the Recycling Modernisation Fund – regional and remote funding round. |
| 3 | $140,000 | One project under Round 3 of the Victorian Circular Economy Recycling Modernisation Fund. |
| 4 | $1.25 million | 2 projects under Round 4 of the Victorian Circular Economy Recycling Modernisation Fund. |
| 5 | $3.9 million | 5 projects under Round 5 of the Victorian Circular Economy Recycling Modernisation Fund. |
Joint Victorian and Commonwealth Government Funding | $39 million | 4 additional projects. |
The projects funded will create over 290 ongoing full-time jobs and process up to 368,300 tonnes of glass, plastic, and paper and cardboard waste each year. In addition, projects targeting an increase in the quality of recycled products will improve up to 66,000 tonnes per year for reuse into new products.
These projects were co-funded by the Victorian Government and the Australian Government.
Read more about the materials recycling infrastructure funding.
Fund recipients
Astron Plastics Pty Limited
Project: bagMUSTER Project
Establish a dedicated processing line to recycle polywoven polypropylene bulk bags collected through bagMUSTER®, a stewardship scheme focused on the recovery and recycling of bags used to transport seed, fertiliser, pesticides, and stockfeed.
Funding: $1,000,000
Australian Paper Recovery Pty Ltd
Project: Soft Plastic Sorting Capacity Upgrade
Improve sorting capability of broad plastics including end of life soft flexible plastics into high quality streams using a near infra-red process from Norway.
Funding: $1,000,000
Austsing Enterprise Pty Ltd
Project: Upgrade LDPE film reprocessing plant
Upgrading existing equipment to increase reprocessing capacity and improve quality of low-density polyethylene films used in pallet wrapping from supermarket warehouses.
Funding: $1,000,000
Re4orm Pty Ltd
Project: Upgrading Agglomerator and Adding Extrusion Line for Plastic Pelletisation
Upgrading existing agglomerator and adding an extrusion line to enable the pelletising of recovered synthetic turf for reuse in manufacturing new products.
Funding: $498,792
ReSource Pty Ltd
Project: RePlastIQ
Enhancing sorting capacity and improving the quality of sorted material by installing advanced hyperspectral imaging technology that can precisely identify and sort over 200 plastic resins from e-plastics.
Funding: $482,500
Announcement date: 5 March 2024
Australian Ewaste Recycling
Project: AusEwaste Plastic E-Waste Recycling Plant in Victoria
Expand Australian Ewaste Recycling's capacity to separate plastics from ewaste and produce flake and pellets for reuse into new products.
Funding: $250,000.
Australian Paper Recovery Pty Ltd
Project: Sorting Facility Upgrade for Australian Paper Recovery Dandenong South Site
Upgrade of APR's sorting facility, to install a new infrared process in Australia to improve the separation and quality of difficult to recover soft plastics.
Funding: $1,000,000
EQ Plastics
Project: Extrusion line to produce PCR PET films.
Installing a new extrusion line to produce new PET rigid films using locally recycled PET material for the packaging industry.
Funding: $140,000.
Corex Recycling Pty Ltd
Project: Project Succeed.
New equipment for processing difficult-to-recycle plastics (such as coat hangers and car bumper bars) for remanufacturing.
Funding: $286,746.66.
Fulton Hogan Industries Pty Ltd
Project: Fulton Hogan Warrnambool Glass Processing Hub.
Creating a new regional glass processing hub at their Warrnambool Asphalt Plant, which will recycle glass for use in local roads.
Funding: $740,000.
Garden City Planters Pty Ltd
Project: Upgrade and expansion of plastic product manufacturing.
Expanding Garden City Planters’ Dandenong facility, with the installation of new equipment which will increase the use of recycled plastic in their production of plant pots.
Funding: $5,315,975.
J. J. Richards & Sons Pty Ltd
Project: Wangaratta and Bendigo materials recovery facility (MRF) upgrades.
Upgrading facilities in Bendigo and Wangaratta, including by installing glass decontamination equipment to enable the use of recycled glass in constructing local roads.
Funding: $225,350.
Plasgain Pty Ltd
Project: Waste plastic to corrugated pipe project.
Purchasing new manufacturing equipment to produce corrugated pipe from recycled plastic.
Funding: $251,064.
Polymer Processors Pty Ltd
Project: Expansion of plastics reprocessing facility.
Increasing Polymer Processors’ capacity to reprocess hard and soft post-consumer plastics into pellets for manufacturing.
Funding: $9,708,487.
Announcement date: 18 January 2021.
Circular Plastics Australia (PE) VIC Pty Ltd
Project: Post-consumer plastics reprocessing plant: An end-to-end solution.
Building a facility capable of processing 20,000 tonnes of plastic per annum. Circular Plastics Australia (PE) VIC Pty Ltd, a joint venture between Cleanaway and Pact Group.
Funding: $3,000,000.
Repurpose It
Project: Plant Capacity Optimisation – Waste Glass Recovery.
Installing an additional centrifuge to increase processing capacity at Repurpose It’s Epping plant.
Funding: $166,375.
Socobell O.E.M Pty Ltd
Project: CLEVA POD Recycled Plastic Void Former System for Concrete Foundations.
Installing a patented new CLEVA POD void forming system, which creates concrete slab foundations made from 100% recycled plastic – which will be marketed to the construction industry.
Funding: $847,961.
Wheelie Waste Pty Ltd
Project: Wheelie Waste Warrnambool Recycling Facility.
Constructing a new facility that will sort and process glass as well as bale paper and plastic for transport.
Funding: $481,800.
ASQ Group Pty Ltd
Project: ASQ Glass Washing Facility.
Installing a new glass washing facility at their existing recycling and glass crushing plant in California Gully, to remove sugars, yeast and organic contaminants from the glass and produce a higher quality glass sand product.
Funding: $848,000.
Tambo Waste Pty Ltd
Project: Tambo Waste MRF Upgrade & Glass Recycling Operation.
Upgrading and expanding the Materials Recovery Facility in Bairnsdale with the establishment of a glass recycling facility, improving recovery, processing and the end uses for recyclables in the region.
Funding: $1,027,375.
Circular Plastics Australia (PET) VIC Pty Ltd
Project: Victorian PET Recycling Plant.
Establishing a PET recycling plant in Melbourne to recycle up to 26,000 tonnes of collected used plastic bottles into PET pellets each year, for use within Coca-Cola, Asahi Beverages and Pact Group’s own packaging. Circular Plastics Australia (PET) VIC Pty Ltd, a joint venture between Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, Asahi Beverages, Pact Group and Cleanaway.
Funding: $6,000,000.
GT Recycling Unit Trust
Project: Flexible Plastic Capacity and Technology Upgrade Project.
Expanding their plastics recycling facility in Geelong to reprocess an additional 8,000 tonnes of plastic, including soft plastics, per annum.
Funding: $3,000,000.
Kantfield Pty Ltd (Martogg & Company)
Project: Martogg Hot Wash Flake plant.
Establishing a new plant that will take 24,700 tonnes of mixed plastic each year and create food grade plastics that will be turned into new plastic packaging.
Funding: $6,000,000
Visy Industries Australia Pty Ltd
Project: Project Zepplin.
Installing advanced Drum Pulping technology to recycle 95,000 tonnes of mixed kerbside paper each year.
Funding: $24,000,000.