The Australian and state governments are working together to build essential waste processing and recycling infrastructure for plastics, tyres, paper and cardboard.
The Recycling Modernisation Fund (RMF) is a national initiative designed to improve Australia’s recycling infrastructure and capabilities. Its goal is to build the capacity, capability and resilience of resource recovery systems and support businesses to respond to the national export ban on waste.
The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation is administering the program for WA projects.
Background
Show moreThe RMF aims to improve recycling outcomes by addressing critical infrastructure gaps in WA’s waste management and resource recovery system.
The Australian Government and the State Government are co-funding the RMF with a $70 million investment in WA. The State Government is providing up to $30 million in grant funding and access to industrial-zoned land valued at up to $5 million for processing infrastructure or upgrades.
The program outcomes will facilitate greater resource recovery by:
- increasing the supply of quality recycled materials available for use; and
- increasing the capacity for domestic sorting, processing and manufacturing of materials affected by the national waste export ban.
RMF general stream ‒ plastics, tyres, paper and cardboard
Show moreThe RMF general stream has been allocated across two competitive grant funding rounds:
- July 2020, the State Government called for expressions of interest for funding to support the development of new plastic and tyre processing infrastructure.
- September 2023, the State Government called for applications for grant funding to support organisations to build, expand or upgrade plastics, tyres and paper and cardboard waste processing infrastructure.
Joint government funding has been allocated to projects aimed at improving recycling capabilities across Perth and in regional areas.
WA projects
Organisation | Waste stream | Project | Funding allocation |
AusWaste Recycling (WA) Pty Ltd | Paper and cardboard | Construction of a new paper and cardboard processing facility in East Rockingham to produce dry pulp, increasing WA’s capacity for domestic sorting, processing and manufacturing of paper and cardboard materials. | $10,000,000 |
Chairay Sustainable Plastic Company Pty Ltd | Plastics | Establish a new plastics reprocessing facility in Canning Vale to recycle PET, HDPE, PP and mixed plastics, including installing flaking and pelletising lines. | $5,640,000 |
Complete Tyre Solutions Tyre Recycling Pty Ltd | Tyres | Construction of a new tyre recycling plant in Neerabup to process waste tyres into crumb rubber for use in the WA asphalt and spray seal industry. | $3,500,000 |
Complete Tyre Solutions Tyre Recycling Pty Ltd trading as CTS Tyre Recycling | Tyres | The Neerabup tyre recycling facility will expand operations and install advanced rubber moulding equipment to make specialty rubber products which increase commercial applications of recycled rubber crumb. | $4,500,000 |
East-West Pilbara Rubber Recycling Pty Ltd | Tyres | Establish a dedicated off-the-road tyre recycling and devulcanisation facility in Port Hedland to produce devulcanised rubber compound that can replace natural and synthetic rubber at ratios of 20 to 50 per cent. | $2,255,000 |
Elan Energy Matrix Pty Ltd | Tyres | Welshpool end-of-life tyre reprocessing facility expanded with the installation of additional machinery including a high-capacity shredder to increase recycling capacity. | $357,867 |
4M Waste Pty Ltd | Tyres | Expansion of operations at a new site in the Perth metropolitan area to recycle used tyres into tyre derived fuel and rubber crumb. | $2,150,000 |
Matters Enterprises Pty Ltd trading as RubberGem | Tyres | Installation of off-the-road tyre recycling and rubber devulcanisation technology at its new state of the art remanufacturing facility in East Rockingham. | $5,000,000 |
Re.Cycle Operations Pty Ltd | Paper and cardboard | The Canning Vale Material Recovery Facility will upgrade existing paper and cardboard sorting equipment to meet the Australian export ban rules. | $7,920,000
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Remondis Australia Pty Ltd | Plastics | Expansion of plastic waste processing operations at the Jandakot purpose built recycling facility, installing interchangeable processing lines to produce high quality LDPE, HDPE, PP plastic commodities to supply to domestic and international markets. | $2,250,000 |
Shire of Exmouth | Paper and cardboard | Expansion of the Exmouth Recycling Centre to include a horizontal baler machine and build a storage facility to bale large volumes of cardboard for recycling. | $255,000 |
T C Waste Pty Ltd trading as D & M Waste Management | Plastics | Installation of machinery at a new plastics recycling facility at Kwinana Beach, repelletising waste HDPE material, transforming it into high-quality HDPE drainage pipe for various waste management applications. | $832,000 |
Tyrecycle Pty Ltd | Tyres | Relocation and expansion of tyre recycling operations to a new site in East Rockingham, including the installation of new equipment producing tyre-derived fuel and rubber crumb. | $5,191,383 |
Veolia Recycling & Recovery Pty Ltd | Paper and cardboard | The Bibra Lake Material Recovery Facility will upgrade existing paper and cardboard sorting equipment to meet the Australian export ban rules. | $8,317,333 |
Additional projects may be announced as they are finalised.
More information
Show moreCall 6364 7162 or 0481 061 311 during business hours for more information or queries on the Recycling Modernisation Fund or email wastegrants@dwer.wa.gov.au
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