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Victorian projects taking sustainable action
The Victorian Government Sustainability Fund Activities
Report 2011–12
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The report is a public document and is available online
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Sustainability Fund on 1300 363 744 or sustainabilityfund@sustainability.vic.gov.au
Victorian projects taking sustainable action
The Victorian Government Sustainability Fund Activities Report 2011-12
Sustainability Fund 2011-2012
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Contents
1. Introduction
2. Victoria’s Landfill Levy at work
3. Sustainability Fund governance
4. Investment report 2011-2012
Case Studies
Sustainability Fund allocations 2011-2012
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1. Introduction
Purpose
This Activities Report provides an overview of the support provided from the
Victorian Government Sustainability Fund, outlining the major allocations from the
Fund as well as improved governance arrangements implemented in 2011-12.
The report is published annually and is part of our commitment to operating
transparently and demonstrating how the Victorian Landfll Levy is being invested in
projects state-wide.
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2. Victoria’s Landfill Levy at work
The Victorian Government Sustainability Fund is a perpetual fund that is sourced
from the Victorian Landfill Levy. The purpose of the Sustainability Fund is to support
programs and initiatives that facilitate resource efficiency and waste reduction, as
well as assist communities to improve the environment and respond to climate
change.
Conserve, Invest and Save
This year saw a significant investment made by the Victorian Government in
sustainable waste management with the announcement of a major package of
initiatives through Conserve, Invest and Save (CIS), with support from the
Sustainability Fund.
More than $38 million has been allocated for a range of programs that provide
practical local solutions to help businesses and households manage waste and
resources more efficiently.
This significant investment underpins the Government’s commitment to building a
strong and thriving economy and improving liveability for all Victorians. CIS programs
such as Driving Investment for New Recycling (DINR), which has leveraged more
than $11million in co-investment from industry, are a prime example of the
Government’s policy in action.
A new Priority Statement and guidelines
In February 2012 a new Priority Statement and guidelines for the Sustainability Fund
were announced after a period of public consultation in accordance with the Victorian
Environment Protection Act 1970.
The revised statement renews the focus on supporting Victorians to reduce waste
and dispose of less waste at landfill – supporting industry, government and
communities.
Supporting new grants programs
A number of new grants programs supported through strategic allocations from the
Fund were announced in 2011-12. These add to the wide range of grant programs
already supported by the Fund. Programs supported in previous years and delivered
by Victoria’s Environment Portfolio (Department of Environment and Primary
Industries (DEPI), Sustainability Victoria (SV), Environment Protection Agency (EPA)
and Waste Management Groups) provide direct support to local government,
industry and community. Support for council waste grants, litter protection officers
and local environment projects are all helping to deliver improved waste
management and healthier local environments.
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3. Sustainability Fund governance
About the Sustainability Fund
A portion of the Victorian Landfill Levy is directed to the Sustainability Fund (after
distribution to agencies responsible for Victoria’s waste management system) to
support programs and initiatives that facilitate resource efficiency and waste
reduction, as well as assisting communities to improve the environment and respond
to climate change.
The Victorian Premier and the Minister for Environment and Climate Change are
joint administrators of the Fund.
The governance arrangements for the Sustainability Fund are guided by three key
elements: the Sustainability Fund Priority Statement, the Sustainability Fund
Guidelines and the Sustainability Fund Advisory Panel.
The requirement for these is prescribed in the Environment Protection Act 1970,
which sets the framework for operation of the Sustainability Fund.
Sustainability Victoria is the responsible authority for the Sustainability Fund and
manages the distribution of funds and maintains the Sustainability Fund Secretariat.
Sustainability Victoria is supported in this role by Environment Portfolio partners: the
Environment Protection Authority (EPA) and the Department of Environment and
Primary Industries (DEPI), previously the Department of Sustainability and
Environment.
A New Priority Statement and Guidelines
The Sustainability Fund Priority Statement outlines the priorities for Fund allocations.
All allocations made from the Fund must be in line with the priorities set out in the
statement.
In February 2012, the Minister for Environment and Climate Change announced a
new Priority Statement for the Sustainability Fund. This sets out a clear agenda for
sustainable waste management in Victoria.
The new statement was shaped by feedback received during a consultation process
that successfully engaged a broad cross-section of stakeholders from local
government, industry, peak bodies and community groups. This process was carried
out in accordance with the Environmental Protection Act 1970.
The majority of submissions agreed that changes needed to be made to the previous
statement and that while the new statement should focus on waste reduction and
avoidance, it also should incorporate a broader view of sustainability beyond waste.
This feedback is evident in the approved Priority Statement (page 15).
Sustainability Fund Advisory Panel
The Sustainability Fund Advisory Panel is appointed by the Minister for Environment
and Climate Change. Its role is to:
 Provide recommendations for funding to the Premier and Minister,
 Monitor the progress of projects supported by the Fund, and
 Provide general advice on the operation of the Fund and other matters.
The Sustainability Fund Secretariat provides secretariat services to the Sustainability
Fund Advisory Panel.
Sustainability Fund Advisory Panel membership Expiry of current term
Mick Murphy OAM (Chair)
11 February 2015
Dr Sarah Ewing
11 February 2015
Jan Boynton
11 February 2015
Anne Dalton
8 July 2015
Joanne Anderson
8 July 2015
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Managing the Fund’s investment in a more resource efficient future
The Sustainability Fund Secretariat monitors and reports on the performance of
programs supported by the Fund. Grantees and Victorian Government departments
and agencies regularly report on the progress of programs. The Secretariat also
manages the distribution of funds and payments based on performance milestones.
This year saw the completion of a number of projects that were supported in
previous years. The Sustainability Fund Secretariat has continued to work with
grantees supported in previous years to ensure that lessons learnt and outcomes are
shared as projects conclude.
How funds are allocated
The Sustainability Fund Advisory Panel makes recommendations for funding and
ensures that programs align with the Sustainability Fund Priority Statement. The
Victorian Premier and Minister for Environment and Climate Change approve
allocations in accordance with the requirements of the Environment Protection Act
1970.
Two types of allocations can be made from the Fund. They are:
1) strategic program allocations to Victorian Government departments and
agencies to deliver programs (including grants programs); and
2) direct funding for projects.
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Table 1:
Sustainability Fund allocations
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each within a large circle with labelled arrows between them as noted </transcriber’s
note>
Sustainability Fund
(arrow labeled "Strategic allocations for priority programs" leads to ... )
Program implementation - Victorian Government agencies and authorities
(another arrow labeled "At times the Sustainability Fund may provide funding
directly" leads to ... )
Funding Support - Funding for grants, rebates and direct support - to Local
Government, community organisations, industry
(an arrow also leads from Program Implementation to Funding Support and is
labeled "Program delivery"
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4. Investment report 2011-2012
In 2011-2012 strategic allocations were made to support the government’s Conserve
Invest and Save strategy and other Environment Portfolio waste and resource
efficiency programs.
A number of grants were also announced for allocations made in previous years. A
complete list is published in this report – Appendix 1.
Strategic allocations
The Minister for Environment and Climate Change announced a number of strategic
allocations that will further support Victorians to reduce waste and increase
recycling.
Conserve, Invest and Save is a major investment in sustainable waste management.
It will enhance Victoria’s recycling efforts and improve recycling infrastructure.
Through the new package $21.3 million in support is being provided from the Fund
for organics market development, a new organics strategy and to support Regional
Waste Management Groups and improvements to regional landfills. Further
initiatives announced in June 2012 will extend the Driving Investment for New
Recycling grants program and support renewed resource recovery infrastructure.
Further details of the package are outlined in Case Study 1.
An additional $19,925,000 will support resource efficiency initiatives and programs to
be delivered by the Environment Portfolio agencies in 2012-13 and beyond.
While the allocations are made to Victorian Government departments and agencies
to deliver the Conserve, Invest and Save programs, the majority of this funding will
go directly to recipients in industry, local government and community through various
grant programs. A portion of each allocation is used to administer the programs and
undertake activities that directly benefit those recipients. The following graph
provides a breakdown of the end recipients of the Conserve, Invest and Save
programs.
Conserve, Invest and Save
End recipients
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State Government (program delivery) $7,761,748
Local Government $10,802,640
Industry $19,310,612
Community (NGOs, community groups etc.) $350,000
Waste Management Groups $3,000,000
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Table 1 - Strategic allocations made in 2011-12
Conserve, Invest and Save package
Programs
Beneficiary
Regional Organics Strategy
Organisation
Funding
Amount
$2,500,000
Industry, local
government
Organics Market Development Industry
Sustainability
Victoria
Sustainability
Victoria
Resource Recovery
Infrastructure
Industry
Sustainability
Victoria
$6,500,000
RWMGs Support Package
Regional Waste
Management
Groups
Industry
Sustainability
Victoria
$3,000,000
Sustainability
Victoria
$5,000,000
Metropolitan Organics Strategy Local government Metropolitan
Waste
Management
Group
Rural Landfill Improvement
Local
Environment
Package
government,
Protection
industry
Authority
Further Conserve, Invest and
Industry, local
Environment
Save initiatives commencing in government,
Portfolio
2012/13 and delivered by the
community
Environment Portfolio
$3,300,000
Driving Investment for New
Recycling (R1 and 2)
$500,000
$500,000
$19,925,000
For more information about Conserve, Invest and Save, see Case Studies (page 12).
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Supporting a range of grant programs for local government,
community and industry
Sustainability Fund support has been vital in the establishment of a number of grant
programs supporting business, local government and community groups. New grants
programs were also announced in 2011-12 and are due to roll out in 2012-13. These
programs are funded through strategic allocations from the Sustainability Fund and
managed by Victorian Government departments and agencies.
This is a key mechanism for investing Landfill Levy resources into programs that
actively support improved waste management and recycling.
Grant programs established with Fund support are enabling councils to increase
kerbside recycling rates, boost rates of home composting, provide litter prevention
officers in local councils and reduce waste in home construction.
In 2011-12 funding was provided to 157 projects through the following grants
programs:
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Beyond Waste Fund
Communities for Nature
Litter Prevention Officers, and
Metropolitan Waste and Resource Recovery Fund.
A list of grant programs developed with Sustainability Fund support over the past two
years is outlined in Table 2.
A complete list of all grants allocated in 2011-12 through these programs is included
in this report – Appendix 2. This list is also published in Sustainability Victoria’s
2011-2012 Annual Report.
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Table 2: Grants allocated in 2011-12 with support from the
Sustainability Fund
Grants
Program
Focus
Delivery agency
Beneficiaries Grants
allocated
in 2011-12
Local
Round one
councils
– 11 grants
Round two
– 18 grants
Metropolitan
Waste and
Resource
Recovery Fund
Grants Program
Beyond Waste
Fund
Funding for
metropolitan local
governments
Metropolitan
Regional Waste
Management
Group
Funding for local
government and
business to tackle
waste avoidance
and re-use of
waste products
Sustainability
Industry
Victoria (Previously
managed by
Environment
Protection
Authority)
10 grants in
2011-12
Grants
Program
Focus
Communities for On ground
Nature
environmental
works with local
communities
Litter Prevention Litter Prevention
Officers
Officers in Local
Program
Government
Delivery agency
Beneficiaries Grants
allocated
in 2011-12
Community
110 grants
in 2011-12
Department of
Environment and
Primary Industries
(Previously
Department of
Sustainability and
Environment)
Environment
Local
Protection
councils
Authority
Roadside Litter Funding for public Sustainability
Grants Program land managers to Victoria
Round 1
implement
roadside litter
prevention
campaigns
Community
9 grants for
9 LPOs
employed
across 14
councils
8 grants in
2011-12
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Case Studies
This year has seen the completion of a number of programs established with
Sustainability Fund support. In addition, new funding and support programs are
supporting improved recycling and waste management in Victoria.
These programs are delivered by organisations across the Environment Portfolio Sustainability Victoria, the Department of Environment and Primary Industries, the
Environment Protection Authority and the Metropolitan Waste Management Group.
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Conserve, Invest and Save
The Sustainability Fund this year supported a major investment in Victoria’s
sustainability with the announcement of the Conserve, Invest and Save initiatives.
These will further support the Victorian Government’s commitment to sustainable
waste management in the State.
These initiatives are delivered by a range of Victorian Government departments and
agencies, including Sustainability Victoria, the Department of Environment and
Primary Industries and the Environment Protection Authority. The Sustainability Fund
Secretariat works closely with these agencies to ensure smooth funding
arrangements, reporting and project delivery.
New strategic initiatives supported by the Sustainability Fund as part of the Victorian
Government’s Conserve, Invest and Save strategy, include:
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Metropolitan Organics Strategy and Organics Market Development (delivered
by Sustainability Victoria and Metropolitan Waste Management Group): $3.8
million from the Sustainability Fund to support and develop organics recycling
across Melbourne and to transform food and garden waste into valuable
products.
Rural Organics Strategy (delivered by Sustainability Victoria): $2.5 million
from the Sustainability Fund to increase the recovery of garden and food
organics from the landfill waste stream in regional Victoria by supporting:
– development of sustainable markets
– installation of new or additional infrastructure, or
– implementation of efficient collection systems.
Rural Landfill Improvement (delivered by EPA): $500,000 for environmental
and financial risk assessment of rural landfills, to be conducted by the
Environment Protection Authority. (This is part of a $3.5 million package, to
help rural landfill operators transition to best practice standards. Additional
funding is provided through Sustainability Victoria).
Driving Investment for New Recycling Round 1 and 2 (delivered by
Sustainability Victoria): $5 million grants program to support the installation of
new infrastructure or to upgrade existing infrastructure to improve the
collection, sorting and/or treatment of commercial and industrial waste and
municipal solid waste.
Resource Recovery Infrastructure (delivered by Sustainability Victoria): $6.5
million grants program for resource recovery infrastructure at landfills,
specifically targeting large-scale projects.
Regional Waste Management Groups support package (delivered by
Sustainability Victoria): $3 million to be distributed to Regional Waste
Management Groups (RWMGs) to improve:
– resource recovery in regional Victoria, and
– the capability of Victoria’s RWMGs to implement waste projects.
A key feature of these projects is the sustainable investment of Landfill Levy funds
back into projects and programs that will improve Victoria’s waste infrastructure and
optimise waste avoidance, reuse and recovery.
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Driving Investment for New Recycling Fund
Driving Investment for New Recycling (DINR) is a $5 million grant fund, leveraging
more than $11 million in co-investment from private industry, to increase the
recovery of materials that are a valuable resource or pose a threat to our
environment.
DINR will create up to 70 new jobs and recover almost 2 million tonnes of valuable
resources over the next 10 years.
In 2010, Sustainability Victoria funded nine organisations through DINR.
Polymer Processors and the Victorian Government co-invested almost $1.9 million to
install equipment that can wash, shred and pelletise used agricultural silage wrap.
Approximately 9,000 tonnes of plastic packaging is used for fodder protection of
Victorian farms every year with around 85 per cent currently burnt or buried. Polymer
Processors estimates recovery from between 1000 to 2000 tonnes of silage wrap in
the first year, increasing to 5000 tonnes after three years.
Another recipient, Resource GV, received $20,000 to increase the recovery of
mercury contained in lights, in partnership with six regional councils.
Resource GV mounted "Tube Terminators" on trailers that travel across the
Goulburn Valley providing a free recycling service for fluorescent lights.
"Fluoro-collect" has a target of recycling 200,000 lights within the first three years of
operation.
DINR is managed by Sustainability Victoria with funding from the Sustainability Fund.
Local Government Litter Prevention Officer Program
This funding program is providing $1.6 million in direct support to local government
to employ Litter Prevention Officers to carry out practical measures to reduce litter
and illegal dumping.
Through the grants program, nine Litter Prevention Officers (LPOs) have been
employed for two years to work on litter prevention programs in 14 councils across
metropolitan and regional Victoria. In Q4 2011-12 one council was unable to
continue in the program. The remaining funds have been directed towards increased
training opportunities.
Fines, direct enforcement, patrolling known hot spots and educating businesses and
the wider community on best practice waste disposal are some of the activities that
LPOs are undertaking in local government areas.
The program commenced in November 2011, and in the six months to June 2012,
the program made a real difference in local areas. Evidence has shown that due to
the increase in intervention activities, capacity building and media, there has been a
decrease in illegal dumping and an increase in litter fines and infringement notices.
For example, the City of Darebin resolved more than 820 litter reports, with more
than 260 litter fines and 215 infringement notices issued in the same period. City of
Greater Dandenong saw a 17 per cent decrease in littering reports in the final
quarter compared to the previous.
The LPOs have created a strong network providing assistance and support to each
other to resolve litter and illegal dumping related issues. The program is currently
being evaluated.
The program is managed by the Environment Protection Authority with funding from
the Sustainability Fund.
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Metropolitan Local Government Waste and Resource Recovery
Fund
Established to foster best practice in waste management and recycling, the
Metropolitan Local Government Waste and Resource Recovery Fund has supported
24 projects. This is part of a $5.5 million investment from the Sustainability Fund in
2010 to support the implementation of the Metropolitan Waste and Resource
Recovery Strategic Plan.
Projects are addressing mattress recycling, diverting food waste in Melbourne’s
CBD, encouraging greater home composting and supporting greater recycling from
multi-unit developments.
The program is delivered by the Metropolitan Waste Management Group with
funding from the Sustainability Fund.
Communities for Nature
In April 2012 Minister Ryan Smith announced $4.5 million for 123 local environment
projects to support practical local action through the first round of Communities for
Nature grants.
The $20 million program provides large and small grants to community
organisations, schools and volunteer groups to conduct work that will protect and
enhance the local environment.
Friends groups, local schools, Landcare groups and other community organisations
received support for projects that will carry out re-vegetation works, establish wildlife
corridors and enhance local biodiversity.
Communities for Nature is managed by the Department of Environment and Primary
Industries with funding from the Sustainability Fund.
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The Priority Statement of the Victorian Government Sustainability
Fund
February 2012
Objectives
The Victorian Government recognises the importance of partnering with business,
local government and the broader Victorian community to improve our environment
and use our resources efficiently.
The Sustainability Fund is a perpetual fund that receives money collected from
Victorian landfill levies. The purpose of the Sustainability Fund is to support
programs and initiatives that facilitate resource efficiency and waste reduction, as
well as assisting communities to improve the environment and respond to climate
change.
For the period of this Priority Statement, the Sustainability Fund will prioritise
initiatives that address the following:
1. As a first priority, the Sustainability Fund will provide funding to:
a) support Victorians to reduce waste and dispose less waste to landfill;
b) support innovators in the waste management and recycling industry
and local government who are willing to invest early in better
technologies, facilities and services; and/or
c) remove logistical and systemic obstacles to recovering commercial
value from otherwise abandoned material.
2. As a second priority, funding will be provided for initiatives to assist all sectors
of the community to improve our environment, respond to climate change, use
our resources efficiently and to support sustainability to advance the social
and economic development of Victoria.
The Hon TED BAILLIEU MP
Premier
The Hon RYAN SMITH MP
Minister for Environment and Climate Change
"Sustainability Fund" or the "Fund" means the fund established within the
Environment Protection Fund with money referred to in section 70(3)(aba) of the EP
Act (referred to in section 70F(1) of the EP Act as the "Climate Communities Fund
Account").
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Sustainability Fund allocations 2011-2012
Projects overseen by Sustainability Victoria
Funding program: Beyond Waste Fund Grants Program – Round 1
(previously managed by EPA)
Organisation
Project
Funding
Amount
Western Health
A financial, environmental and
microbiological assessment of reusable
versus single use plastic anesthetic
circuits
Food Industry Beyond Waste Project
$18,320
City of Whittlesea
$166,200
Organisation
Project
Funding
Amount
Geelong Manufacturing
Council & HLB Mann Judd
Insights to Excellence (i2e)
Geelong Regional Collaborative Beyond
Waste Network
Beyond Waste Insights
$402,700
Burbank Australia
Target Zero Waste Home Construction
$298,000
City of Greater Dandenong
SEBN Transport Packaging Waste
Minimisation project
Metricon Homes
Waste stream analysis of home design
and construction, and the elimination of
material waste.
RMIT University
A Supply Chain Management Framework
for Waste Minimisation for the Residential
Sector
Victorian Employer’s
Small and Medium sized Enterprises
Chamber of Commerce and Waste Audits – Research
Industry (VECCI)
Restaurant and Catering
Green Table Waste Reduction Pilot
Association (Australia)
Program
$45,000
$50,000
$200,000
$112,480
$55,000
$94,601
Funding program: Roadside Litter Grants Program – Round 1
Organisation
Project
Funding
Amount
Calder Regional Waste
Management Group
CHILI Squad – Calder Highway
Illegal Dumping and Litter
Investigation Squad
Act on tourism litter in northern
Victoria
$50,000
Keep Cardinia Clean
$26,345
NevRwaste (North East Victorian
Regional Waste Management
Group
NevRwaste (North East Victorian
Regional Waste Management
Group)
Parks Victoria
Secure your load or secure a fine
$26,322
Take Away Litter campaign
(Cancelled)
$18,500
Roadside Recycling Trailer
$10,282
City of Greater Dandenong
Keep Railway Parade litter free
$10,200
Yarra Ranges Council
Enforcement – Roadside Litter
Surveillance Cameras
$6,975
Resource GV (Goulburn Valley
Regional Waste Management
Group)
Cardinia Shire Council
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$30,000
Projects overseen by the Department of Sustainability and
Environment
Funding program: Communities for Nature Grants Program – Round One
Organisation
Project
Funding
Amount
$25,000
Surf Beach Sunderland Bay
Coastcare
Neerim District Progress
Association
Greening Australia (Vic)
Surf Beach to Sunderland Bay
Coastal Boardwalk
Neerim South Wetlands Habitat
Creation Project
Marlay Point Woodland Restoration
Friends of Tyers Park
Willow Control, Tyers River
$70,000
Phillip Island Conservation
Society
Protection of Moonahs through
Erosion Control, Appley Ave, Red
Rocks, Phillip Island
Habitat for Life – Friends of
Strzelecki Koalas
Jack and Albert River Restoration
Project
Enhancing Threatened EVC’s in a
Disturbed Landscape
Preserving Kalimna Gully Rainforest
$13,000
$96,485
$128,513
South Gippsland Landcare
Network
Yarram Yarram Landcare
Network
East Gippsland Landcare
Network
East Gippsland Rainforest
Conservation Management
Network
Friends of Cape Liptrap
Reconstruction of sections of the
Peninsula Including Bald Hill and Walking Trail at Bald Hill Reserve
Kings Flat Reserves
Rhyll Coast Action
The Mirror Bush Project
$600,000
Friends Of Tarra Bulga National
Park
Rehabilitation of Sycamore Maple
Infestation Site at Tarra Bulga
$9,960
Wonthaggi Urban Landcare
Group
Community College Gippsland
Enhancing Historic Tank Hill
$10,000
McMillan Creek Restoration
$10,000
Rutherglen Landcare Group
Indigo Feral Olive Control Program
$96,000
Regent Honeyeater Project
Habitat Restoration for Threatened
Species – People Power in Action
$30,000
High Country Rail Trail Steering
Committee
Broken Boosey Conservation
Management Network
Extending the High Country Rail
Trail Wildlife Corridor
A Blueprint For Woodland Birds In
The Broken Boosey
$100,930
Yea Wetlands Committee of
Management
Yea Wetland Weed Whackers
$25,050
$600,000
$125,250
$33,055
$9,900
$9,710
$599,640
Organisation
Farm Trees and Land
Association and Upper Ovens
Valley Landcare Group
Violet Town Action Group
Project
Funding
Amount
Riparian Restoration – Upper Ovens $149,650
River
Implementing Stage 2 of the
Honeysuckle Recreational
Environment Project
$185,090
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Projects overseen by the Department of Sustainability and
Environment
Funding program: Communities for Nature Grants Program – Round One
Organisation
Project
Funding
Amount
Strathbogie Ranges
Conservation Management
Network
Parklands Albury Wodonga
Strathbogie Ranges:
$137,355
Farm Wetlands for Threatened
Woodlands
Restoring Nationally Significant Murray $149,000
River Wetlands and Floodplains
Greta Valley Landcare Group Habitat Linking in the Greta Valley
$59,615
Kiewa Catchment Landcare
Group
Euroa Environment Group
Boosting Baranduda Biodiversity
$149,665
Seven Creeks Restoration Project
$385,000
Body Corporate Strata Plan
No 300166
Broken River Environment
Group
Wallan Environment Group
$4,350
Body Corporate Strata Plan
No 300166
Mid-Loddon Sub-Catchment
Management Group
Environmental Weed Removal From
Sunday Creek
Goomalibee Pilot Macrofauna Baseline
Survey
Wallan Crown Land Reserve Weed
Removal and Flora Enhancement
Project
Lyndale Park Management Committee
– Small Grant
Mid Loddon-CMN’s Shelbourne Nature
Conservation Reserve Restoration
Harston Community Land
Care Group
Cohuna Neighbourhood
House
Connecting Country (Mt
Alexander Region)
Stockyard Plain Wetland Community
Project
Revegetation of Gilrole Park Cohuna
3568
Enabling Woodland Birds to Thrive in
the Mount Alexander Region
$119,504
$10,000
$7,750
$9,900
$140,770
$89,840
$150,000
Organisation
Project
Whroo Goldfelds
Conservation Management
Network
Sustainable Living in the
Mallee
St Mary’s School Lancefeld
Yellow Gums and Goldfields-Nectar for $596,840
Whroo’s Woodland Birds
Post Office Hill Action Group
Baynton Sidonia Landcare
Group
Nyah West Golf Club
Sunraysia Institute of TAFE
Funding
Amount
Nyah West Road Reserve
$80,200
Enhancement and Protection
St Mary’s Primary School Revegetation $9,260
Project
Chewton Community Working Together $9,900
to Improve Chewton’s Post Office Hill
Species protection and diversification
plus understory focus in Baynton,
Sidonia
Nyah West Golf Club Environmental
Improvement and Biodiversity
Conservation
Building Capacity Knowledge for
Revegetation
$6,000
$10,000
$10,000
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Projects overseen by the Department of Sustainability and
Environment
Funding program: Communities for Nature Grants Program – Round One
Organisation
Project
Castlemaine Landcare
Moonlight Creek Stage 2 Rehabilitation
Group
Friends of Campbells Creek Campbells Creek – Streamside
Rehabilitation at Winters Flat
Newham and District
Hanging Rock Revegetation Project
Landcare Group
Nyah West Landcare Group Nyah West Landcare Group Rabbit
Ripping Project
Friends of Steele Creek
Restoration of Steele Creek: Stream Bank
Shrubland: Stage 2
Merricks Beach Foreshore
Weed removal from escarpment to allow
Committee of Management threatened indigenous plants to flourish
and revegetation where appropriate
La Trobe University
La Trobe University Biodiversity Trail
National Trust of Australia
(Victoria)
Funding
Amount
$4,702
$5,285
$5,310
$10,000
$27,198
$17,000
$120,000
Endeavour Fern Gully Rehabilitation and $150,000
Revegetation Project
Organisation
Project
Funding
Amount
Flinders Christian
Community College
Flinders Christian Community College
Biodiversity Enhancement Project
$32,225
Round the Bend
Conservation Co-Operative
Ltd.
Mornington Peninsula and
Western Port Biosphere
Reserve Foundation
Friends of Merri Creek
Incorporated
Framework for Strategic Action: Weeds
$10,240
The Biolink Challenge – Community
Actions for Western Port
$143,100
Galada Tamboore Grassland and
Escarpment Restoration: Bringing the
Management Together
Dromana Foreshore Fern Recovery
$150,000
Monbulk Creek/Birdsland Rehabilitation
Project, Stage 1
Locals Creating Wildlife Passages
$19,685
Dromana Foreshore
Committee of Management
Friends of Birdsland
Bentleigh West Primary
School
Strathallan Golf Club
Friends of the Eltham
Copper Butterfly
$21,000
$28,320
Strathallan Golf Club Stormwater Capture $43,000
and Filtering Project
Pulling Back From the Brink: An Action
$459,210
Plan for the Eltham Copper Butterfy
Friends of Leadbeater’s
Possum
Community Supported Habitat
$67,356
Enhancement to Help Save Leadbeater’s
Possum
Wurundjeri Tribe Land
Cultural Environment Connections at the $25,000
Compensation Cultural Herit Bend of Islands
Age Council
Australian Trust for
Woodlands Community Grassland for
$524,972
Conservation Volunteers
Endangered Eastern Barred Bandicoot
Recovery
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Projects overseen by the Department of Sustainability and
Environment
Funding program: Communities for Nature Grants Program – Round One
Organisation
Project
Funding
Amount
Crib Point Stony Point
Foreshore Committee of
Management
Protecting the Biodiversity of Crib Point
Foreshore Reserve
$44,900
Organisation
Project
Funding
Amount
Merri Creek Management
Committee
Reversing the Decline of Microserris
Scapigera in the Merri Catchment
$149,247
Moreland Energy Foundation Moreland Biodiversity Corridors, Creeks
and Streets
Emu Plains Racecourse and Emu Plains Reserve Weed
Recreation Reserve
Management Project
Friends Of Emerald Lake
Emerald Lake Park Vegetation
Park
Management Project
Australasian Native Orchid
Diuris Fragrantissima Recovery and
Society
Plains Grassland Rehabilitation,
Laverton Grasslands
Habitat Restoration Fund
Restoration of Waterholes Creek for
Endangered Flora and Fauna
$149,500
Southern Ranges
Environment Alliance
Friends of Merri Creek
Puffing Billy Trackside Management
Plan – Green Tracks
Continuing and Extending Golden Sun
Moth Density and Habitat Quality
Surveys
Dunmoochin Landcare Group Nillumbik’s Conservation Corridors
$147,000
Australasian Native Orchid
Society
Caladenia Robinsonii, Damp Sands
Herb-Rich Woodland/ Healthy
Woodland Recovery
Ongoing Restoration of Williams Road
Beach – Friends and Mentored
Community
Hogan Park Environment Enhancement
Project
Protection of Diuris Punctata Orchid,
Mornington Tourist Railway 2012
$37,908
Wurundjeri Walk Biodiversity Project
$2,181
Friends of Williams Road
Beach
Hogan Park (Emerald)
Committee of Management
Mornington Railway
Preservation Society
Wurundjeri Walk Advisory
Committee
Melbourne Girls College
Friends of Edgars Creek
$100,000
$600,000
$38,264
$56,000
$138,374
$599,134
$8,103
$10,000
$6,400
Defragmenting Habitat Along the Yarra $10,000
River
Edgars Creek Remnant Indigenous
$5,146
Vegetation Protection and Enhancement
Montmorency South Primary Montmorency South School Community $9,750
School
Bushland Regeneration Project
Bellbird Dell Advisory
Committee
Copperfeld College
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Bellbird Dell Weeding Program
$10,000
Grassland Habitat Garden
$10,000
Projects overseen by the Department of Sustainability and
Environment
Funding program: Communities for Nature Grants Program – Round One
Organisation
Project
Bittern Bushland
Preservation Association
Community Engagement and Habitat
Protection for Threatened Orchids of Crib
Point
Friends of Westgate Park
Restoring Native Vegetation at Westgate
Park to Improve Biodiversity Using
Community Volunteers
Christmas Hills Landcare
Woody Weed Control to Improve the
Group
Habitat Quality of Remnant Vegetation in
Christmas Hills
Westbourne Grammar
The Promenade Habitat Restoration
School
Program
Friends of the Williamstown Path to the Birds
Wetlands
Friends of Sherbrooke
Rehabilitation of Yanakie
Forest
Dromana Foreshore
Dromana Foreshore Rehabilitation
Committee of Management Program
Scoresby Primary School
Scoresby Primary School – Championing
Biodiversity Within School Grounds
Williamstown High School
Williamstown High School Wetland
Revival
Friends of the Maribyrnong Maribyrnong Valley Parklands Serrated
Valley
Tussock / Chilean Needle Control Stage
One
Leigh Catchment Group
Back from the Brink –
Communities Growing to Saving Their
Landscapes
Bellarine Landcare Group Building the Resilience of the Bellarine
Ramsar Sites
Camperdown-Timboon Rail Protection of Pneumatopteris Pennigera
Trail Management
(Lime Fern) on the Camperdown Timboon
Committee
Rail Trail
Project Platypus
Saving the Platypus in the Upper
Association
Wimmera Catchment
Ballarat Environment
Management of the BEN Biodiversity
Network
Reserves
Laharum Landcare Group Laharum Landcare Group (Member Of
Victorian Farm Tree and Landcare
Association Inc.)
Funding
Amount
$10,000
$8,000
$9,218
$6,213
$10,000
$10,000
$3,585
$9,370
$30,000
$4,800
$126,103
$133,875
$23,850
$78,000
$149,147
$314,000
Organisation
Project
Lake Cartcarrong
Committee
The Lismore Land
Protection Group
Enhancing Lake Cartcarrong Biodiversity
Funding
Amount
$24,136
Protecting and Enhancing the Biodiversity $308,130
Values of the Lismore Region
Rokewood Cemetery Trust Fencing and Protection of Native
$19,937
Vegetation within Rokewood Cemetery
Extension
Dowling Forest Cemetery
Communities for Nature
$18,643
Trust
Mount Elephant Community Community Enhancement of Mount
$149,574
Management
Elephant Scoria Cone Biodiversity Values
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Projects overseen by the Department of Sustainability and
Environment
Funding program: Communities for Nature Grants Program – Round One
Organisation
Project
Point Danger Committee of
Management
Point Danger Coastal Heathland
Protection and Regeneration Project
Southern Otway Landcare
Network
Avoca & District Landcare
Sunnyside Wildlife Corridor
Funding
Amount
$10,000
$9,990
Preparing, Propagating and Planting
$6,430
Eucalyptus Pyrenean in the Pyrenees
Nelson Reserves Committee of Flora/Fauna Management – Protection $10,000
Management
and Restoration of Riverside Reserve
Wattle Flat-Pootilla Landcare
Group
Biodiversity Enhancement on the
Upper Yarrowee River (Phase 2)
$9,860
Friends of Ralph Illidge
Naringal Powerful Owl Nest Box
Sanctuary
Project
Landsborough Landcare Group L.B.L.C.W.M.P
$7,150
Bannockburn Cemetery Trust
$3,259
Ocean Grove Coastcare Inc
Alvie Tree Planters
Environmental Weed Control at
Bannockburn Cemetery
Enhancing and Protecting Coastal
Moonah Woodland For Improved
Biodiversity Outcomes
Red Rock Reserve Revegetation
$9,950
$10,000
$4,940
Organisation
Project
Friends of Edwards Point
Reserve Inc
Edwards Point Nature Conservation
Reserve Revegetation and Weed
Removal
Natural Assets: Women In The
Environment
Environmental Weed Control of the
Yarriambiack Creek Warracknabeal
South West Coast Network Inc
Warracknabeal Special
Developmental School
Anglesea Aireys Inlet Society
for the Preservation of Flora
and Fauna
Batesford Fyansford
Stonehaven Landcare Inc
Natimuk Pre-School Centre
Funding
Amount
$9,100
$9,240
$5,310
Edna Bowman Flora Reserve
Understorey Restoration
$5,100
Restoration of Dog Rock Sanctuary
$10,000
$3,329
Friends of Grass Tree Park
Red-Tailed Black Cockies for Kids –
Embracing Early Learning Principles
for Conservation
Habitat Restoration at Tower Hill
Wildlife Reserve
Bio-Diversity Revegetation Trial –
Griffith Island
Grass Tree Park Restoration Works
East Otway Landcare Group
Enhancing the Bambra Wetlands
$4,000
Birregurra Community Group
Birregurra Parkland Creek Restoration $8,370
Friends of Tower Hill
Friends of Griffths Island
$10,000
$4,911
$5,625
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Projects overseen by the Metropolitan Waste Management Group
Funding program: Metropolitan Waste and Resource Recovery Fund
Grants Program – Round 1
Organisation
Project
Funding
Amount
Melbourne City
Council
Melbourne City
Council
City of
Boroondara
Improving recycling in high rise residential buildings $175,635
Cardinia Shire
Council
"Halve Your Waste" (education campaign promoting $150,000
waste reduction options including home composting)
City of Darebin
Flexible Plastic Kerbside Recycling Trial
Public housing recycling service trial
$49,400
Schools as gateways to community behaviour
change on waste
$187,500
$60,000
Organisation
Project
Funding
Amount
City of Monash
Recycling Education Program
$53,120
City of Monash
Waste and recycling education program for culturally $33,343
and linguistically diverse communities, including
Chinese, Indian and Greek communities
Bayside City
Council
"Zero Food Waste to Landfill" (trialing the use of new $50,110
"Green Cone" composting units in the community)
City of Kingston
"Who’s Eating Your Scraps?" campaign'
(food waste reduction and home composting
campaign)
Residential resource recovery program
$20,688
Moonee Valley waste audit program
$5,000
Moonee Valley
City Council
Moonee Valley
City Council
$24,250
Funding program: Metropolitan Waste and Resource Recovery Fund
grants program – Round 2
Organisation
Project
City of Darebin
Funding
Amount
Collection and recycling of used mattresses $58,000
City of Knox
Collection and recycling of used mattresses $215,000
City of Casey
Collection and recycling of used mattresses $97,000
Melbourne City
Council
City of Yarra
Degraves Street Food Waste and Recycling $223,000
Project
Bin Lid Standardisation Pilot
$20,000
City of Yarra
Neighbourhood Based Community Compost $242,000
City of Banyule
Districts + Lifestyles + Avoiding Waste
$25,000
City of Hume
Transfer station drop sort pad upgrade
$169,417
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Organisation
Project
Funding
Amount
City of Darebin
Maximising diversion from hard
waste and streetscape collections
$18,500
City of Yarra
Resource Recovery in multi-unit
dwellings
$25,000
Organisation
Project
Funding
Amount
City of Maroondah
$18,000
City of Frankston
Solutions to waste management in
multi-unit dwellings
Construction of a Waste Recovery
Platform
Halve Your Waste Challenge
City of Casey
Casey Composting Communities
$74,077
City of Greater Dandenong and
Frankston
City of Maribrynong, City of
Boroondara and City of Yarra
Multi-unit dwelling Contamination
and Recycling
Commercial and Industrial Landfill
Waste Avoidance Project
$18,000
City of Whitehorse
Composting and Food Waste
Avoidance
Be a Brimbank Gem
$82,000
City of Darebin
City of Brimbank
$80,000
$215,000
$62,400
$40,000
Strategic allocations
Organisation
Project
Sustainability Victoria Regional organics strategy
Funding
Amount
$2,500,000
Sustainability Victoria Organics market development
$500,000
Sustainability Victoria Resource recovery infrastructure
$6,500,000
Sustainability Victoria RWMGs support package
$3,000,000
Sustainability Victoria Driving Investment in New Recycling
$5,000,000
Metropolitan Waste
Metropolitan organics strategy
Management Group
Environment
Rural landfill improvement package
Protection Authority
Environment Portfolio Further details will be provided on the
remaining Conserve, Invest and Save
initiatives to commence in 2012–13.
$3,300,000
$500,000
$19,925,000