Recycling Victoria Business Support Fund – Stream 1: Identification grants – Funded projects

Last updated: 10 May 2022
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Number of recipients to date: 10
Total funding awarded to date: $1,353,856
All projects to be completed by: June 2022

Stream 1 of the Recycling Victoria Business Support Fund supports:

  • businesses
  • charities and other not-for-profit organisations
  • industry groups and consultants as either individuals or within a collaborative partnership

to investigate how to adapt and apply circular economy business opportunities and approaches across one, or multiple businesses.

These grants are funded through the Recycling Victoria policy.

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Fund recipients

Round 1

Announcement date: 15 July 2021

Ten recommended projects received a total of $1.35 million to identify and develop new circular economy business models, products, services, and stewardship schemes.

These diverse projects will create business-led solutions for our circular economy and focus on waste prevention, reuse, repair, remanufacture, and recycling. They will support Victorian businesses to identify their next steps to become more sustainable and to create value for our environment, society and economy.

Accelerating new circular business models to reduce food waste in Victoria
Project lead: Rocket Seeder
Project partners: Currie Communications, Monash University
Status: In progress
Funding source: Recycling Victoria – Business Support Fund
Funding amount: $200,000
The business accelerator program will create successful and sustainable new models that tackle food waste and kick-start a circular economy in Victoria’s food industry.
BSF Melbourne Food waste
Circular Economy Action Plan and Roadmap for Toys
Project lead: Australian Toy Association
Status: In progress
Funding source: Recycling Victoria – Business Support Fund
Funding amount: $110,534
The Australian Toy Association (ATA) will develop and implement a circular economy program to map the movement of toys and their materials.
Victoria BSF Toys Manufacturing
Investigating opportunities for a circular mixed-use precinct
Project lead: Coreo
Project partners: Dexus
Status: In progress
Funding source: Recycling Victoria – Business Support Fund
Funding amount: $135,000
Working with the QV precinct to understand, measure and map the flow of materials through mixed-use corporate and retail precincts, with the intention to improve the circularity of these materials.
BSF Melbourne Retail Circular economy Business
From almond waste to nutritional fertiliser
Project lead: Select Harvests
Status: In progress
Funding source: Recycling Victoria – Business Support Fund
Funding amount: $193,400
55,000 tonnes of almond hull and shell waste will be upcycled into organic fertiliser to supplement use of inorganic fertilisers at Murray-Darling basin almond orchards.
Victoria Regional BSF Food waste Fertiliser Almonds
Formwork for a Sustainable Future
Project lead: Mortar Art
Status: In progress
Funding source: Recycling Victoria – Business Support Fund
Funding amount: $70,000
The project will demonstrate an alternative to current single use formwork techniques in the construction industry, which contribute to the waste and greenhouse gas emissions of the sector.
Victoria BSF Melbourne Construction Building
Sparking the circular economy in Melbourne's manufacturing industry
Project lead: Monash University
Project partners: South East Melbourne Manufacturers Alliance
Status: In progress
Funding source: Recycling Victoria – Business Support Fund
Funding amount: $99,922
Identifying and developing practical approaches for manufacturing businesses to adopt practices that create efficiency and reduce waste.
BSF Manufacturing South East Melbourne
A sustainable business model for retired electric vehicle batteries
Project lead: Innovative Mechatronics Group
Status: In progress
Funding source: Recycling Victoria – Business Support Fund
Funding amount: $200,000
The Circular Energy Storage project will develop Australia’s first reuse and resource recovery program to upcycle retired electric lithium-ion batteries.
Victoria BSF Hallam Batteries Battery recycling EV batteries BESS Energy store ESS
Sustainable Tyre Disposal
Project lead: Tyre Stewardship Australia
Project partners: Equilibrium OMG
Status: In progress
Funding source: Recycling Victoria - Business Support Fund
Funding amount: $80,000
Tyre Stewardship Australia is seeking to find solutions to the issue of end-of-life tyres in regional and remote Victoria.
Victoria Regional BSF Tyres
Developing a Dairy Sector Food Waste Action Plan
Project lead: Dairy Australia
Project partners: Fight Food Waste Limited, Australian Dairy Products Federation, with support from the Dairy Manufacturers Sustainability Council
Status: In progress
Funding source: Recycling Victoria – Business Support Fund
Funding amount: $180,000
To meet the dairy industry’s target to halve food waste in Victoria and nationally by 2030, Dairy Australia will identify, assess and recommend commercial and practical food waste reduction opportunities.
Victoria Food BSF Agriculture Dairy
Designing a circular economy action plan for Australia’s clothing
Project lead: Kmart
Status: In progress
Funding source: Recycling Victoria – Business Support Fund
Funding amount: $80,000
This project will address the issue of textile waste and determine industry led solutions to reduce the environmental impact of clothing.
Victoria BSF Fashion Textiles Clothing Design

Stream 2: Implementation grants

Run in parallel to Stream 1, the Stream 2: Implementation grants program seeks to support business to implement evidence-based circular economy business opportunities and approaches in Victoria.

To view the funding recipients, view the Recycling Victoria Business Support Fund – Stream 2: Implementation grants – Funded projects page.

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Sustainability Victoria

Contact:

1300 363 744 grants.enquiries@sustainability.vic.gov.au
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