The grants programs to be rolled out by the NSW Environmental Trust under the extension of Waste Less, Recycle More are:
This program has been allocated a further $3 million for community recycling centres or similar mobile services to upgrade existing facilities, construct new facilities or develop and trial innovative solutions where a fixed facility is not practicable.
This program has been allocated a further $5 million to support regional and rural local councils with landfill consolidation and closure, building and upgrading transfer stations and implementing a range of environmental improvements.
This program has been allocated a further $25 million to accelerate and stimulate investment in waste and recycling infrastructure and increase resource recovery from businesses, industry and households. It is designed to fund major resource recovery facilities in levy paying areas of NSW which primarily process materials from these areas.
This program (previously known as the Local Government Organics Collection Systems) has been allocated a further $10 million to support the implementation of new or enhanced household kerbside collection services for organic waste. This includes collection systems for garden, food or combined food and garden organic waste.
This program has been allocated a further $14 million to support a broad range of small and large infrastructure projects that recover garden, food or combined food and garden organic waste from households and businesses. It has four funding streams:
- Organics Processing Infrastructure
- Business Organics Recycling
- Food Donation
- Product Quality
This program is a combination of the Innovation in Priority Problem Wastes Management and the Innovation in Shredder Floc Management grants programs. It has been allocated a further $4.5 million to support innovative projects that will provide new recycling infrastructure solutions; establish (or expand) recycled material markets through research and development; and improve and introduce new approaches and technologies to increase the efficiency of recycling facilities for sources of wastes listed as priorities for this program.