$4 million boost to turn Victoria’s hard-to-recycle plastics into new products
More of Victoria’s hard-to-recycle plastics – including soft plastics – will soon be kept out of landfill and turned into new products, following a $4 million investment from the Albanese Government, the Allan Labor Government and industry.
The funding will support four new projects that together will increase plastics recycling capacity by 16,700 tonnes a year, strengthening Victoria’s resource recovery sector while creating jobs across the state’s growing circular economy.
Federal Minister for the Environment and Water Murray Watt said the investment marked another step forward in Australia’s transition to a circular economy. He said new recycling infrastructure in Victoria would help tackle the ongoing challenge posed by plastics, recovering materials that would otherwise end up in landfill and keeping them in productive use. The projects, he added, demonstrated the Australian Government’s commitment to doubling circularity by 2035 through practical, on-the-ground action.
