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Four Australian waste and recycling pilots received AUD 3 million each
Four selected projects in Australia's 18th Cooperative Research Centres Projects round each received AUD 3 million in published grant funding. Their total project values ranged from AUD 6.25 million to AUD 9.14 million.
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Grant
Shared scale · 0 AUD to 9,137,000 AUD
Total project value
Shared scale · 0 AUD to 9,137,000 AUD
Both measures use the same Australian-dollar scale.
The same grant supported different project budgets
Each of the four grants reached the programme's AUD 3 million cap. Their combined published project value was AUD 31.39 million, of which AUD 12 million was grant funding. Programme rules allow matched contributions in cash or in kind. Source 1 Source 2
Two projects address materials recovery
The soft plastics pilot aims to sort and reprocess waste into plastic pellets. The lithium battery recycling pilot aims to recover materials suitable for battery supply chains. Each project tests a distinct way to recover a saleable material from a waste stream. Source 1
Waste truck fires sit earlier in the collection process
The fire project aims to detect and respond to lithium battery fires in waste collection vehicles. It covers a risk that can arise before discarded material reaches a sorting or recycling site. Its published project value was AUD 8.42 million. Source 1
The carbon project tests a separate source of feedstock
The selected carbon utilisation project aims to use fermentation-derived carbon dioxide to make soda ash, with winery trials and end-user validation in the project description. The published values are grant decisions. Performance and commercial sales require later evidence. Source 1