WasteSorted Community Education Grants

The WasteSorted Community Education Grants program is a State Government initiative administered by the Waste Authority.

WasteSorted Community Education Grants provide funding of up to $25,000 per project to improve waste behaviour in ways that support the aims of the Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Strategy 2030 (waste strategy).

The waste strategy outlines objectives to avoid waste, reuse or recover more value and resources from waste, and protect the environment. Integral to this is supporting behaviour change work through communication, education and the development of better practice systems and processes.

Preference in the 2025-26 funding round was given to projects that:

communicate messages for behaviour change consistent with the ‘WasteSorted’ and ‘Be a GREAT Sort’ communications materials
develop and implement targeted waste behaviour change initiatives with an emphasis on focus materials

Focus materials

Achieving the avoidance targets will require an emphasis on the waste materials that, by weight, currently make up more than 90 per cent of the waste Western Australians generate:

Construction and demolition materials ‒ concrete, asphalt, rubble, bricks, sand and clean fill
Glass ‒ packaging and containers
Metals ‒ steel, non-ferrous metals, packaging and containers
Organics ‒ food organics and garden organics
Paper and cardboard ‒ office paper, newspaper and magazines
Plastics ‒ packaging and containers
Textiles ‒ clothing and other fabric-based materials
Hazardous waste – non-household

To apply

Applications are currently closed for 2025.

Information webinar

We held a webinar to provide information on how to apply for a WasteSorted Community Education Grant on 16 July 2025.

Copies are available to view below.

Video: WSGCE25 Webinar - MP4

PDF: WSGCE25 Webinar - PDF

Contact details

For further information about WasteSorted Grants, please contact our Grants team via email (wsg@dwer.wa.gov.au) or phone (08 6364 6962).

Successful grant recipients

Future funding

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