Program snapshot
Category: Organics Infrastructure Fund
Amounts: Total of $6.25 million; individual grants of up to $2 million.
Eligible bodies: business, NSW councils, groups of NSW councils, other local government-controlled organisations and organisations upgrading the five AWT facilities eligible for waste levy exemption.
Contact: organics.recycling@epa.nsw.gov.au or info@epa.nsw.gov.au
Status: Round 9 is open. Applications close 21 October 2021.
Managed by: NSW Environmental Trust.
Aims
The Waste Less, Recycle More Organics Infrastructure (Large and Small) Program (2013-21) provided $57 million over nine years to fund infrastructure and equipment to reduce food and garden organics waste going to landfill. Previous rounds have allocated $46.6 million to 99 projects, with 3.5 million available this round.
An additional $3.75 million has been made available to support organisations impacted by the Mixed Waste Organics Outputs decision. The first round of this funding allocated $1 million to one project, with $2.75 million available this round.
Only stream 1 – Organics Processing Infrastructure is available this round.
The NSW EPA intends to apply to the Commonwealth Food Waste for Healthy Soils Fund for matched funding for eligible projects through this round. The Commonwealth Government’s $57 million Food Waste for Healthy Soils Fund will support infrastructure upgrades and developments to support the diversion of organic waste from landfill and the production of recycled organic products for use on agricultural soils.
How to apply
Guidelines are available from the Environmental Trust website.
Stream 1: Organics Processing Infrastructure
Provides funding for new and enhanced infrastructure to process food, garden or combined food and garden organics from households and/or businesses.
Previous funding streams
Stream 2: Business Organics Recycling – not available this round
Provides funding for onsite processing or pre-processing equipment.
Stream 3: Food Donation Infrastructure – not available this round
Provides funding for infrastructure to facilitate the collection and redistribution of edible food waste from businesses to people in need, such as fridges, freezers, refrigerated vans and storage equipment like forklifts.
More information about food donation grants.
Stream 4: Product Quality – not available this round
Provides funding for equipment to improve the quality of recycled organics products to support access to new markets.
Stream 5: Transfer Stations – not available this round
Provides funding for the capital costs relating to infrastructure and equipment to establish new or upgrade existing transfer stations so that they can also be used as transfer stations for food (or food and garden) organics.
Past recipients
Round 8
Round 8 allocated $1 million across the following stream.
- Stream 1 Processing - One project was awarded $1,000,000. View project summary.
Round 7
Round 7 allocated $8,901,450 to 18 projects across the following three streams:
- Stream 1 Processing - Seven projects were awarded $6,847,875. View project summaries.
- Stream 2 Business Organics Recycling – Five projects were awarded $1,153,469. View project summaries.
- Stream 3 Food Donation - Six projects were awarded $900,106. View project summaries.
Round 6
Round 6 allocated $9,864,640 to 17 projects across the following three streams:
- Stream 1 Processing - Four projects were awarded $7,041,851. View project summaries.
- Stream 3 Food Donation - Four projects were awarded $440,470. View project summaries.
- Stream 4 Product Quality - Seven projects were awarded $2,382,319. View project summaries.
Round 5
Round 5 allocated $5,214,055 to 15 projects across the following three streams:
- Stream 1 Processing - Four projects were awarded $2,704,912. View project summaries.
- Stream 3 Food Donation - Four projects were awarded $636,053. View project summaries.
- Stream 4 Product Quality - Seven projects were awarded $1,873,090. View project summaries.
Round 4
- Stream 1 - Five projects were awarded $1,780,500. View project summaries.
- Stream 2 - Three projects were awarded $850,904. View project summaries.
- Stream 3 - Four projects were awarded $584,459. View project summaries.
- Stream 4 - was not available during this round
Round 3
- Stream 1 - Ten projects were awarded $11,582,309. View project summaries
- Stream 2 - Six projects were awarded $510,289. View project summaries
- Stream 3 - Seven projects were awarded $932,428. View project summaries
- Stream 4 - One projects was awarded $21,475. View project summaries
Round 2
- Stream 1 - Seven projects were awarded $7,122,850. View project summaries
- Stream 2 - Two projects were awarded $340,267. View project summaries
- Stream 3 - Four projects were awarded $186,018. View project summaries
- Stream 4 - Seven projects were awarded $385,088. View project summaries
Round 1
- Stream 1 - Eight projects were awarded $13.2 million. View project summaries
- Stream 2 - This stream was not open during Round 1.
- Stream 3 - Three projects were awarded $1.2 million. View project summaries
- Stream 4 - Four projects were awarded $1.2 million. View project summaries
More information
Circular Economy Programs
Organics Unit
Phone: (02) 9995 6890
Email: organics.recycling@epa.nsw.gov.au