The Tasmanian Government is a strong supporter of businesses investing in solutions to waste issues that can enhance our State’s clean, green and sustainable brand image through the processing and re-purposing of organic materials into high quality products.
Our Government is committed to ensuring that Tasmania builds a circular economy and encourages business and industry to adopt responsible methodologies for a sustainable future.
During the 2021 election campaign, the Tasmanian Liberals committed to provide $3 million towards Dulverton’s proposed state-of-the-art in-vessel composting facility near Latrobe, recognising its importance to Tasmania.
Today we are delivering on that commitment in conjunction with the Federal Liberal and National Government’s $6 million under the Regional Recovery Partnerships program.
In total the $16.05 million upgraded facility will provide a high quality solution to the management of organic waste from the Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO) collection and disposal system used by Councils across the North West of the State.
The facility will also provide an important service to manage organic waste from the equivalent of 46,000 homes and numerous industrial, agricultural and aquaculture processes around the State.
This project will help progress towards the Australian and Tasmanian Government target to halve the amount of organic waste sent to landfill by 2030. The project also aligns with the Tasmanian Government’s commitment to build a circular economy and diverting waste from landfill to resource-based waste management solutions.
The project will lead to 92 construction jobs, 4 on-going positions with the not-for-profit Dulverton Regional Organics Facility and 20-25 indirect on-going positions within the North-West community.
It is expected that the more advanced composting technology will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45,000 tonnes, address 46 per cent of the North-West’s landfill classified as organic and generate 16,000 tonnes of compost by-product for use in local agriculture and returning carbon to our soils.
The Tasmanian Liberal Government is pleased to be supporting this project and the benefits in brings to the whole community and we are currently looking for proposals for a similar facility in Southern Tasmania.