Modernising waste and recycling in NSW

NSW Environment Minister Mark Speakman has announced $4.5 million in government funding to expand or upgrade recycling equipment at nine of the state’s waste facilities.

The funding, which has been awarded under round two of the Resource Recovery Facility Expansion and Enhancement grants program, is intended by the NSW Government to help modernise the state’s waste and recycling infrastructure and to improve the capacity for resource recovery.

“We’ve set an ambitious target of diverting 75% of waste from landfill by 2021,” said Speakman.

“To achieve this, we are expanding kerbside collections to create a new network of community recycling centres and improve the infrastructure at waste facilities to enable them to recover more recyclable materials.”

The recently awarded waste facilities include Australian Native Landscapes, Direct Group Industries, Grasshopper Environmental Services, NSW Glass Recyclers, Veolia Environmental Services (Australia) and Cessnock City, Lismore City and Wyong Shire Councils. They join the eight facilities which were last year awarded $4.2 million as part of the program’s first round.

The funding is part of the government’s five-year $465.7 million Waste Less, Recycle More initiative. Information about the projects undertaken by each waste facility is available here.