The Rockliff Liberal Government is doing what matters by supporting regional jobs and providing up to $1 million of grants for the State’s smaller waste operators to help them to report waste data from July 2024.
Minister for Environment and Climate Change, Roger Jaensch, announced the successful applicants for the Waste Data Readiness Grant Program at the Wynyard Waste Transfer Station.
“The grant program, made available through the Circular Economy Fund, is to assist smaller resource recovery operators with the cost of modifying business systems and infrastructure to support a better understanding of waste streams state-wide,” Minister Jaensch said.
“This assistance means smaller resource recovery operators like Waratah-Wynyard Council will be able to gain a better understanding of waste streams coming through their centres, which will support future recycling and reuse in Tasmania’s developing circular economy.
“Operators will use the grants specifically for various facility upgrades, including tollbooth, weighing and IT infrastructure, software upgrades, and building works.
“This will improve the ability to classify material and to be able to report on the amount of each material type, in compliance with the Waste and Resource Recovery Act 2022.
“The program provides grants for eligible smaller scale resource recovery facilities, with the 11 successful applicants receiving collectively $290,000 in grant funds.”
The successful applicants are:
- Circular Head Council
- Huon Valley Council
- JHRC Group Pty Ltd
- Kentish Council
- Kingborough Waste Services Pty Ltd
- King Island Council
- Latrobe Council
- Meander Valley Council
- Northern Midlands Council
- Spectran Environmental Management Pty Ltd
- Waratah Wynyard Council
The Rockliff Liberal Government will always support the creation of local jobs, which helps to further strengthen our economy.
“There are now 54,900 more Tasmanians in jobs than when the Liberals came to Government in 2014, with a record high of 290,000 Tasmanians now in work, many of those in regional areas,” Minister Jaensch said.
An allocation of $1 million each year for two years was committed by the Liberal Government from the Circular Economy Fund, to support landfill and resource recovery facilities to comply with the Waste and Resource Recovery Act 2022.
The Tasmanian Liberal Government is delivering on its commitment to improve the tracking of waste with $725,855 provided to 16 larger operators to improve data capture. This round brings the total grants provided to $1,015,855.
