Resource recovery
The Queensland Resource Recovery Industries 10-Year Roadmap and Action Plan is a framework to accelerate this transition and develop Queensland’s resource recovery industries.
In 2021, the Queensland Government announced a 10-year $2.1 billion waste and resource recovery package, including a $1.1 billion Recycling and Jobs Fund.
The waste and resource recovery package:
- supports infrastructure and non-infrastructure priorities, facilitating the recovery of more resources from waste
- enables the transition to the circular economy
- continues to ensure households are not directly impacted by the waste levy.
Outcomes
- Supporting developing and implementing 10 regional and four First Nations waste management plans. These plans provide a blueprint for improved waste management and resource recovery practices and support the transition to a circular economy.
- The Queensland Recycling Modernisation Fund, delivered in partnership with the Australian Government, funds projects that improve waste material sorting, processing, recycling and remanufacturing.
- The Regional and Remote Recycling Modernisation Fund, co-funded with the Australian Government, provided grants of up to $500,000 for local governments and their industry partners to improve the viability of waste sorting, processing, recycling or remanufacturing in regional Queensland.
- The Recycling Enterprise Precincts Guideline and Location Strategy have been published to increase economic opportunities and help facilitate industrial land growth.
- Since the launch of the roadmap in August 2019, 46 business and local government projects have received funding, diverting 1.41 million tonnes of waste annually from landfills, delivering an additional $255 million in capital investment and creating more than 468 jobs across Queensland
