{"id":4654,"date":"2019-12-18T04:36:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T04:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=4654"},"modified":"2019-12-18T04:36:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T04:36:13","slug":"more-than-23-million-in-grants-to-boost-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/12\/18\/more-than-23-million-in-grants-to-boost-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"MORE THAN $23 MILLION IN GRANTS TO BOOST RECYCLING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NSW Government is awarding more than $23 million in grants to fund new infrastructure to increase recycling and support the use of recycled materials in manufacturing.<br \/>\nEnvironment Minister Matt Kean said NSW has a strong history of recycling and we are working hard to ensure that continues by investing in major resource recovery infrastructure.<br \/>\n\u201cNSW will continue to lead the way with this new funding, aimed at accelerating investment in waste and recycling infrastructure and help address challenges the industry faces in NSW,\u201d Mr Kean said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe capital costs of major infrastructure can be a significant barrier to the establishment of new and innovative recycling facilities, so these grants give projects the boost they need to get up and running quickly and effectively.<br \/>\n\u201cThe grants will see new large-scale infrastructure built to recover and process valuable waste materials into new products.\u201d<br \/>\nFour projects have been awarded $17.58 million funding under Round 4 of the Major Resource Recovery Infrastructure grants program. They are part of the NSW Government\u2019s $802 million\u00a0<em>Waste Less, Recycle More\u00a0<\/em>initiative, the largest waste and recycling funding program in Australia.<br \/>\nThree of the projects will support new facilities to process paper, cardboard and plastic to a quality that can be re-used to make new products. The fourth project, a chlorine bypass system, will enable the Berrima cement kiln to be able to use more locally produced refuse-derived fuel (RDF) as a cleaner alternative to coal.<br \/>\nA further 13 projects have been awarded almost $5.5 million under Round 2 of the Product Improvement Program.\u00a0These projects will increase the recycling and reuse of a range of challenging materials including tyres, plastics, crushed glass and polystyrene.<br \/>\n\u201cThese projects will reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill, maximise the use of our valuable resources by promoting reuse, and will create new jobs for the people of NSW.\u201d<br \/>\nFor further information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.nsw.gov.au\/working-together\/grants\/infrastructure-fund\">https:\/\/www.epa.nsw.gov.au\/working-together\/grants\/infrastructure-fund<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NSW Government is awarding more than $23 million in grants to fund new infrastructure to increase recycling and support the use of recycled materials in manufacturing. Environment Minister Matt Kean said NSW has a strong history of recycling and we are working hard to ensure that continues by investing in major resource recovery infrastructure. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/12\/18\/more-than-23-million-in-grants-to-boost-recycling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MORE THAN $23 MILLION IN GRANTS TO BOOST RECYCLING&#8221;<\/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-4654","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\/4654","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=4654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}