DPI Update (Issue 25)

Call for Applications: Recycled Organics Market Development Incentive Funding Program

The Victorian Government, through Sustainability Victoria, has made up to $300,000 of funding available for producers and suppliers of quality Recycled Organic (RO) products to undertake targeted Market Development activities that will increase market uptake of RO products in Victoria.

Applications are invited for individual grants of up to $50,000 each for the development and implementation of Market Development projects over and up to a 2 year period to develop new and viable markets for RO products in Victoria.

The funding is intended to benefit the Victorian Recycled Organics industry. Applications will be accepted from:

• Individual re-processors and/or resellers of Recycled Organics and their representatives
• Local Government and Regional Waste Management Groups
• Recycled Organics industry groups
• Landowners, groups of landowners, grower and industry groups, and land management organisations
• Cooperative partnerships of the above.

Activities to be eligible for funding assistance include:

• Development of new ‘fit for purpose‘ products from demonstrated markets
• Development and dissemination of marketing information targeting specific markets
• Activities and events that promote market awareness and understanding of the benefits of quality RO products
• Establishment and maintenance of demonstration sites/trials that form the basis of a structured education/technology transfer program (Note that the available funding applies for up to 2 years, so the operation of demonstration sites beyond this period will not be funded by the program)
• Purchase of equipment for spreading/application of RO products that will increase the viability of using products
• Development and implementation of product quality processes and recognised accreditation systems that will improve market confidence in products
• Purchase of equipment that will improve product quality, product differentiation and/or contamination removal to meet specifications of target markets
• Support of one-off incentives to markets to try products, with funding support for RO product and transport costs (for example, sample giveaways for domestic markets, or up to 100 cubic metres of RO product per user may be subsidised for trial, where it can be demonstrated that the user has potential to buy greater quantities in the future)
• Achieving certification to AS 4454, the Draft Compost Australia industry certification scheme, and/or other certification schemes that will promote sales into target markets.

Other activities that are likely to improve markets will also be considered.

It is expected that applications will typically include several of the above listed activities as part of the applicant’s detailed Market Development Plan and timetable for implementation.

Further information and an application form can be obtained from the CMPA (or they can be obtained at the “Tenders & EoIs” section of the Sustainability Victoria website, www.sustainability.vic.gov.au or by contacting Bill Grant on (03) 9639 3322 or via bill.grant@sustainability.vic.gov.au

Applications must be submitted before 4.00pm Monday 6 March, 2006 by email: organics@sustainability.vic.gov.au, or by hand or registered mail to: Sustainability Victoria Level 2 / 478 Albert Street EAST MELBOURNE VIC 3002

Please also note that a separate (and much more significant) funding round under the Sustainability Fund opened on Friday 27 January.

This funding could include land management and rehabilitation programs using recycled organic products. Information will be available on the website.

Information supplied by: Bill Grant, Project Manager Sustainability Victoria
03 9639 3322

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