Western Australian businesses, local governments and community groups will share in $250,000 in waste reduction funding to encourage the community to do better than the bin and help make landfill the last resort.
- WasteSorted Community Education Grants awarded to 18 projects.
- Grant budget increased to $250,000 in 2023.
- Funding boost for businesses, not for profits, local governments, and community groups.
Western Australian businesses, local governments and community groups will share in $250,000 in funding to encourage the community to do better than the bin and help make landfill the last resort.
The WasteSorted Community Education Grants Program supports organisations that promote better waste behaviours, practices and awareness.
Projects funded by this year’s program include waste workshops at farmers markets, waste facility tours for culturally and linguistically diverse community members and clothes swap events for all ages from a range of local government, charity, and not-for-profits.
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Funding was awarded to projects that support the Waste Strategy’s objectives of avoiding waste, recovering value and resources, and protecting the environment.
The State Government has provided more than $8.65 million in WasteSorted grants since 2017 for projects which improve the recovery of materials including plastics, construction and demolition waste, textiles, food organics and garden organics.
“This grant round attracted an exceptional number of quality applications and project proposals,”said WA Climate Action Minister Reece Whitby.
“I congratulate the successful recipients on their innovative ideas to promote the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling waste. “This program is just one way we can support industry and the community, create jobs and bring some of the best waste projects to life.”
Read more on the WasteSorted Community Education Grants here