New recycling plant at Katherine part of $11m federal recycling investment | NT Independent

New recycling plant at Katherine part of $11m federal recycling investment

by | Feb 9, 2022 | News | 0 comments

A $7.2 million Materials Recovery Facility will soon be built in Katherine to sort, process, and re-manufacture materials such as mixed plastic, paper, tyres and glass, as part of the Federal Government’s $1 billion program to overhaul Australia’s waste and recycling industries.

Under the Recycling Modernisation Fund (RMF), the NT and Australian governments will co-invest $11 million into the new recycling infrastructure in the Northern Territory.

The $7.2 million will go to the facility and the remaining $3.8 million will fund a grants program, focusing on new recycling and recovery infrastructure Environment Minister Eva Lawler said.

She did not provide details of the grants program or who would be eligible.

Information on where exactly the facility will be built in Katherine was also not mentioned by Ms Lawler.

Federal Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley said the announcement is focused on addressing the imbalance of recycling opportunities across parts of the country.

Ms Ley said the Katherine Materials Recovery Facility is targeted to meet the needs of areas that are currently without access to recycling facilities.

Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environmental Management Trevor Evans said the Coalition Government want to drive improvement without economies of scale, adding that the solutions will involve innovative technology and carefully targeted investments.

“Today’s announcement will allow the Northern Territory to increase its recycling infrastructure, as it seeks to overcome the difficulties that come with a small and dispersed population affected by seasonality,” Mr Evans said.

The $190 million RMF is generated from recycling investments from the Australian Government, state and territory governments and industry investments.

By mid-2024 when the full waste export ban comes into effect, Australia’s target is to recycle around 645,000 additional tonnes of waste plastic, paper, glass, and tyres each year.

The RMF and other measures that support Australia’s National Waste Policy Action Plan, will create approximately 10,000 new jobs and divert over 10 million tonnes of waste from landfill, the government said.

To date, the Australian Government has co-funded various projects with states and territories, including targeted projects for a national solution for paper recycling.

As of January 18, 2022, the RMF co-funding program has spent a total of $242,639,488, according to the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment.

This amount hasn’t included projects for the Northern Territory and Queensland.

 

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