WasteSorted Community Education Grants

Supporting projects that contribute to the waste strategy’s targets

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, 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 2024-25 funding round was given to projects that:

  • communicated messages for behaviour change consistent with the ‘WasteSorted’ and ‘Be a GREAT Sort’ communications materials
  • developed and implemented 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
 
To apply

Applications closed on Monday 19 August 2024.

 

Information webinar

We held a webinar to provide information on how to apply for a WasteSorted Community Education Grant on Wednesday 24 July 2024.

Link to mp4 copy of the webinar 

Link to pdf copy of the presentation

 

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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Supporting documents

Created Date:
Mon 25 July 2022

Last Edit Date:
Fri 10 January 2025