NSW businesses are being encouraged to apply for a grant under a new $60 million national program to transform plastic waste into valuable products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Australian Government\u2019s Recycling Modernisation Fund (RMF) Plastics Technology stream will boost existing recycling infrastructure and uncover new methods of processing plastics that are difficult to recycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NSW businesses can apply for grants of between $1 million and $20 million per project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There will be a focus on projects that take hard-to-recycle plastics, including soft plastics like shopping bags, bread bags and cling wrap, and recirculate them back into the economy in a safe and sustainable way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Projects can include new infrastructure or improvements to existing machinery, equipment, technology and processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This program will help NSW drastically reduce its reliance on plastic and progress towards NSW\u2019s target of tripling the recycling rate by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For further information on the program and application process visit the NSW Environment Protection Authoritylaunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NSW Minister for the Environment, Penny Sharpe said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNSW generates around 800,000 tonnes of plastic waste every year, but only 10% is currently recycled. This is significantly below recycling rates for all other types of waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis funding aims to triple the plastic recycling rate by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBy recycling plastic, we\u2019re not only limiting impacts on the environment, but we can also transform waste materials into valuable assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This Federal Government investment will support NSW to take another huge step forward towards the circular economy we\u2019re striving for.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Federal Minister for the Environment and Water, the Hon Tanya Plibersek MP said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAustralians use about 3.8 million tonnes of plastic a year and dispose of about 2.7 million tonnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s about 50 times the weight of the Sydney Harbour Bridge being thrown out each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnd we\u2019re only recycling about 13% of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe can do better. That\u2019s why we\u2019re investing $60 million to boost Australia\u2019s recycling and recovery rates for hard-to-recycle plastics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe funding will invest in exciting technologies that could help solve challenges in recycling plastic waste like soft plastics going into landfill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor is driving the transition to a circular economy by 2030. It\u2019s good for the economy and great for the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NSW businesses are being encouraged to apply for a grant under a new $60 million national program to transform plastic waste into valuable products. The Australian Government\u2019s Recycling Modernisation Fund (RMF) Plastics Technology stream will boost existing recycling infrastructure and uncover new methods of processing plastics that are difficult to recycle. NSW businesses can apply … Continue reading “$60 million in grants to transform plastics recycling”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21853,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21852\/revisions\/21853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}