The Tasmanian Government has backed the Dulverton Organics project to help manage the state’s compostable waste.
During the 2021 election campaign, the Tasmanian Liberals pledged $3 million towards Dulverton’s proposed state-of-the-art in-vessel composting facility near Latrobe.
Roger Jaensch, Minister for State Growth last month delivered on that commitment in conjunction with the National Government’s $6 million under the Regional Recovery Partnerships program.
“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,” Jaensch said.
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.
“This project will help progress towards the Australian and Tasmanian Government target to halve the amount of organic waste sent to landfill by 2030,” Jaensch said.
“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.”
Jaensch said the project will lead to 92 construction jobs, four 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 soils.
For more information visit: premier.tas.gov.au
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