Aims

The Illegal Dumping Prevention Program Grants provide funding opportunities to councils and public land managers for projects to prevent illegal dumping, establish illegal dumping baseline data or develop a business case for illegal dumping prevention.

Funding will be available in the following streams:

• Stream 1: Building an evidence base

  • 1a establishing an illegal dumping baseline (up to $20,000, delivery period up to 12 months) or

  • 1b Preparing an illegal dumping business case (up to $10,000, delivery period up to 12 months)

• Stream 2: Illegal dumping prevention starter grants (up to $60,000, delivery period up to 12 months)

• Stream 3: Illegal dumping prevention grants (up to $120,000 for a single entity, delivery period up to 2 years)

• Stream 4: Collaborative illegal dumping prevention grants (up to $200,000 for a multi-entity project, delivery period up to 2 years). Opens in mid-2024

Program objectives

The overall objectives of the Illegal Dumping Prevention Strategy 2022–2027 are to minimise:

• kerbside illegal dumping activities

• public land and bushland illegal dumping activities

• illegal landfilling / organised crime activities

The 4 streams under the grants program target the first two of these objectives. The objectives of these grants are to support local and state government public land managers to:

• gather baseline and ongoing data on the size of their illegal dumping problem

• develop a business case for investment in illegal dumping prevention

• proactively target localised illegal dumping issues

• collaboratively address illegal dumping across land tenures

• encourage entities to undertake illegal dumping prevention projects if they have not done so before.