Roger Jaensch,Minister for the Environment
The Tasmanian Liberal Government is delivering on its election commitment to reduce waste and build Tasmania's circular economy, including significant investment to improve organic waste collection and reprocessing infrastructure right across the State.
Earlier this year, this Government committed $3 million to support Dulverton Waste Management to establish a state-of-the-art, industrial-scale organics composting facility to service the north of the State, receiving municipal kerbside organic (or FOGO) waste, as well as organic waste streams from a wide range of food processing, agricultural and industrial waste treatment industries, reducing greenhouse gas and leachate emissions and producing commercial compost products for use in agriculture, landscaping and rehabilitation.
Today, I am pleased to announce an Expression of Interest process to establish or upgrade a regional organic waste processing facility with similar capabilities servicing the south of the State.
This will be supported by up to $3 million in seed funding, which we expect will attract significant investment from other sources.
We have set a target to reduce the volume of organic waste sent to landfill by 50 per cent by 2030, and investments like these will help us achieve this target, as well as our state-wide emissions reduction target.
These initiatives complement our commitment to establish a Container Refund Scheme for Tasmania and to implement a Waste Levy that, when delivered, will underpin ongoing investment in our overall Plan to reduce waste, protect our environment and build Tasmania's circular economy.
Expressions of Interest close on 31 January, 2022, and more details about the Organic Waste Processing Grant Program are available from: https://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/environmental-management-grants
