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National Product Stewardship Investment Fund

Product stewardship promotes shared responsibility for products we use every day. It is about industry, the public and all levels of government helping to manage the impacts of these products over their whole life, particularly at end-of-life.

These schemes can help to:

  • reduce waste and prevent harmful materials from ending up in landfill
  • increase recycling and the recovery of valuable materials and accelerate a circular economy.

To support this goal, we set up the National Product Stewardship Investment Fund.

About the fund

The fund aims to increase the number of industry-led product stewardship schemes in Australia and increase the recycling rates of existing schemes.

Applications are now closed for the competitive round.

We offered grants between $300,000 and $1 million. Grants could be used for new schemes or to expand existing schemes.

See a list of successful grant recipients.

Product stewardship in action

Watch the videos to see how the TreadLightly and PODcycle schemes work to reduce products that end up in landfill, recover valuable materials and contribute to our circular economy.

ASGA’s TreadLightly

[Music plays and an image appears of a blue screen and text appears: Tread Lightly, Supported by The National Product Stewardship Investment Fund]

[Image changes to show a facing and then a profile view of the Hon Trevor Evans MP talking to the camera, and text appears: Hon Trevor Evans MP, Assistant Minister, Waste Reduction and Environmental Management, $1 billion transformation]

Hon Trevor Evans MP: The Federal Government’s driving a $1 billion transformation of Australia’s waste and recycling sectors.

[Images move through to show a facing view of Trevor talking to the camera, a close view of rubbish in a skip bin, a close view of a landfill site, and an aerial view of a landfill site]

Product stewardship can help us all to reduce our waste, reduce what’s going into landfill, but bring about, and propel a more circular economy,

[Image changes to show a profile view of Trevor talking, and then the image changes to show a large loader loading rubbish into a hopper]

where we realise the value that’s in so many of the things we’re currently throwing away.

[Images move through to show rubbish moving along a conveyer belt, Shaun Bajada talking to the camera, and a close view of used shoes, and text appears: Shaun Bajada, Executive Director, Australian Sporting Goods Association]

Shaun Bajada: Previously there was no national co-ordinated footwear recycling programme across Australia until the Tread Lightly Programme.

[Images move through of different views of used shoes, Shaun talking to the camera, and a close view of used shoes again]

The Tread Lightly Programme solely exists to tackle an immediate waste problem of unwanted sports shoes from hitting landfill.

[Images move through of various views of used shoes and text appears: 1000 years to decompose]

Now, a sports shoe composes of many different materials. Now these components they take around 1,000 years to decompose.

[Images move through of Shaun talking to the camera, a customer placing used shoes in a collection bin in a store, and close view of the collection bin]

It all starts with consumers walking in store, placing their unwanted sports shoes and active lifestyle shoes within our collection units.

[Images move through of used shoes in a collection bin, an employee picking up the used shoes and putting them on a conveyer belt, and then foam and rubber pellets moving along a conveyer belt]

From there we collect those shoes, they head over to our recycling plant, where we grind them down into a recycled foam and rubber pellet.

[Images move through of the employee running the pellets through a gloved hand, Shaun talking to the camera, a playground surface, a running track surface, and a gym room floor]

Those foam and rubber pellets are then converted into retail floors, anti-fatigue mats, playgrounds, or running tracks, or gym room floors.

[Images move through of Shaun talking to the camera, foam and rubber pellets being held in the hand, and recycled rubber and foam sheets]

This is a great example of a circular economy at play.

[Image changes to show a collection bin, and then the image changes to show Georgina Dark talking to the camera, and text appears: Georgina Dark, Manager NSW Nth & Qld, The Athlete’s Foot, Easy Way to Recycle]

Georgina Dark: Customers are loving the collection drop-off points. It makes it an easy way for them to be able to recycle.

[Image changes to show a profile view of Georgina talking, and then the image changes to show a close view of a collection box]

Coming into a store where there’s an easy option, dropping shoes into a box, knowing that they’ve done something good.

[Image changes to show used shoes in a collection box, and then the image changes to show a profile view of Georgina talking to the camera]

For retailers, being part of the Tread Lightly Programme, I think the main benefits are connecting with customers in a different manner.

[Image changes to show a female customer service officer handing a box of new shoes in a bag to a customer in an Athlete’s Foot store]

[Music plays and images move through of an employee walking through a recycling plant, the employee catching recycled pellets in his hand, and Shaun talking, and text appears: National Product Stewardship Investment Fund]

Shaun Bajada: The Tread Lightly Programme is funded in two components, a grant from the National Product Stewardship Investment Fund,

[Image changes to show used sneakers moving along a conveyer belt]

and co-funded by the 16 brands participating within the programme.

[Image changes to show Shaun talking to the camera, and then the image changes to show an employee watching pellets fall into a hopper in a recycling facility]

The National Product Stewardship Investment Fund has really accelerated the Tread Lightly Programme.

[Images move through of the recycled pellets moving along a conveyer belt, an employee picking up the pellets and inspecting them, and the recycling plant, and text appears: Funding has accelerated the Tread Lightly Program]

What that really has allowed us to do is expand the programme to its fullest, allowing us to collect that data, allowing us to develop logistics, to understand the rates and the material flows of collecting these shoes.

[Image changes to show surface sheets prepared using the foam pellets, and text appears: Make new products we put back into the economy]

This grant really prepares us to a self-sustaining model.

[Images move through to show Shaun talking to the camera, different views of collection units, and an Australian map, and text appears: 500 Collection Units Free to Use]

It is also allowing us to expand the programme to 500 collection units across Australia, free of charge, for all consumers.

[Images move through of Trevor entering a store, handing a pair of sneakers to the owner, the owner looking at the sneakers, the sneaker tread, and Trevor and the owner in conversation]

Hon Trevor Evans MP: The Tread Lightly Scheme is a fantastic new recycling scheme.

[Images move through of the shoes being put into a collection bin, Trevor talking to the camera, and a used sneaker on the top of a collection bin]

All Australians should be encouraged to think about that pair of old sports shoes that they’ve got somewhere at home that they can return to help create a great recycling outcome.

[Images flash through of sneakers moving along a conveyer belt, recycled pellets moving along a conveyer belt, recycled pellets in the hand, tyre crumb bales, and recycled surface sheets]

New recycling schemes are a great way to reduce what’s going into landfill and a great way for all of us to step up and to play a role

[Image changes to show a profile view of Trevor talking to the camera]

so that products can be re-used or the valuable resources in them can go back into the economy.

[Music plays and the image changes to show a blue screen and text appears: Tread Lightly, Supported by The National Product Stewardship Investment Fund]

[New text appears: More Information, AWE.GOV.AU]

[Image changes to show the Coat of Arms and text appears: Australian Government, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment]

PlanetArk’s PODcycle

[Music plays and an image appears of a blue screen and text appears: PODcycle, Supported by The National Product Stewardship Investment Fund]

[Images move through to show a facing and then profile view of the Hon Trevor Evans MP talking to the camera, and then shrink wrapped pallets in a warehouse, and text appears: Hon Trevor Evans MP, Assistant Minister, Waste Reduction and Environmental Management, $25 million dollars]

Hon Trevor Evans MP: The Federal Government's investing over $25 million into creating new,or expanding existing product stewardship schemes.

[Images move through of Professor Veena Sahajawalla and a colleague talking in a warehouse, Veena looking at a bale of circuit boards, and Veena talking to the camera, and text appears: Prof Veena Sahajwalla, Recycling Expert, UNSW Smart Centre]

Prof Veena Sahajwalla: Product stewardship is really about showing that circular economy and circular solutions can actually be brought to life.

[Image changes to show a pile of circuit boards, and then the image changes to show small components of circuit boards]

Real actionable solutions where you can look at waste materials, not as waste, but rather see it as an opportunity.

[Images move through of a pot of material being put into a furnace and melted, the material inside the pot being melted, and then Veena talking to the camera, and the camera zooms in]

Circular economy is really all about valuing our material so that we can keep it in use, make it productive for as long as we can.

[Image changes to show a close view of a coffee pod being held in the hands, and then the image changes to show the front of a Nespresso store]

Rebecca Gilling: Australia is a nation of coffee lovers, and people are increasingly embracing the convenience of coffee pods.

[Images move through to show a close view of Rebecca Gilling talking to the camera, a medium view of Rebecca talking, and then rubbish moving through on a conveyer belt, and text appears: Rebecca Gilling, Co-CEO, Planet Ark]

There is no recycling solution at kerbside for coffee pods, partly to do with their small size, they literally fall through the cracks at the recycling centres.

[Images move through of a view looking down on rubbish moving through on a conveyer belt, a forklift moving a crate of recycling, and Rebecca talking to the camera, and the camera zooms in]

The other problem is that some people are putting their pods in their kerbside recycling where they're a contaminant of the recycling stream.

[Images move through of recycling moving through on a conveyer belt, crushed aluminium cans, and then a close view of Rebecca talking to the camera]

So, we really need to find a simpler and better way. They contain a range of materials.

[Camera zooms out on Rebecca talking to the camera, and then the image changes to show a view of waste moving up a conveyer belt at a recycling centre]

So, you've got plastics, metals and of course the coffee grounds themselves.

[Images move through of waste moving through on a conveyer belt]

What's needed is a specialised recycling scheme that will deal with this range of products.

[Image changes to show Rebecca talking to the camera, and then the camera zooms out a little, and then the image changes to show the entrance to a Woolworths store, and text appears: Aluminium, plastic and compostable pods]

Planet Ark is establishing a National Product Stewardship Scheme to enable the recycling of all types of coffee pods, with the support of the coffee pod and retail industries.

[Images move through of coffee capsule collection points at the entrance to the store, Peter Bruce talking to the camera, and then the collection points at the front of the store, and text appears: Peter Bruce, Head of Waste to Resource, Woolworths]

Peter Bruce: Woolworths has got our 2025 sustainability goals, and part of our goals is that we can provide recycling opportunities for our customers.

[Images move through of customers moving past the collection points, Peter talking to the camera, a bank of collection bins, and a close view of the sign on the side of the collection point]

We've been engaging with the product stewardship scheme to provide coffee pod recycling, and we've got a number of stores where we're trialling that solution, and we've seen fantastic results.

[Images move through of Peter talking to the camera, and text appears: 300 kgs of coffee pods collected per month]

At our Crows Nest store here, we're seeing over 300 kilos of coffee pods collected every month, which is just amazing.

[Image changes to show a female customer putting coffee pods into the collection bins, and the camera zooms in on her hand dropping the coffee pods in]

Customers are so engaged. We can't do these solutions alone.

[Image changes to show the female customer walking away, and then the image changes to show Peter talking to the camera, and text appears: Solution from collection to recycling]

We need to work with product stewardship schemes, so across the whole supply chain, we've got a solution from collection right through to recycling.

[Images move through of banks of coffee pods stacked on shelves, and then the image changes to show Jean-Marc Dragoli talking to the camera, and text appears: Jean-Marc Dragoli, Business Executive Officer, Nespresso Oceania]

Jean-Marc Dragoli: The Nespresso scheme is a good example of how circular economy will work.

[Image changes to show a close profile view of Jean-Marc talking to the camera]

We have over 19,000 capsule collection points across four different recycling options.

[Images move through of a collection bin in a store, an Australia post satchel, and then a hand placing used capsules in the satchel and sealing the satchel]

Those options include recycling in our boutiques, our florist partners, bulk recycling kits, and Australia Post location using our special postal satchels.

[Images move through of used capsules moving along a conveyer belt, and the camera zooms in, and text appears: Coffee grounds and aluminium are separated]

Once in our system, used capsule are sent to our processing facility where the coffee grounds and the aluminium are separated.

[Images move through of a bale of crushed coffee pods falling out of a machine, a mound of coffee grounds, and then boxes of capsules stamped with “80% Recycled Aluminium” on the side]

Aluminium is sent back to producers for recycling and the grounds are used in commercial composting.

[Images move through of Jean-Marc talking to the camera, crushed coffee capsules with circular arrows on top, a Velosophy bicycle, a close view of the handlebars, and Jean-Marc holding up a pen]

We have a range of capsule that are themselves made from recycled aluminium, but it can be transformed into anything, from a Velosophy bicycle to a Caran d'Ache Pen.

[Image changes to show a side facing view of Jean-Marc talking to the camera]

We are working with the University of New South Wales to get the most out of this high quality aluminium here in Australia, helping Australian industry.

[Image changes to show Veena talking to the camera, and then images move through of red foamy material on a tray in a recycling centre, and then various samples of benchtop materials]

Prof Veena Sahajwalla: We're looking at waste materials that actually can be reformed and can be used in re-manufacturing and can therefore create value.

[Images move through of a table set with cutlery and crockery, a side table made from recycled material, and then coasters made from recycled material]

All kinds of materials can be brought back to life and reformed.

[Music plays and the image changes to show a “Recycled glass & coffee cups” sign on a piece of manufactured bench material]

[Images move through of a front end loader tipping into a hopper, waste material moving on a conveyer belt, and Rebecca talking to the camera, and text appears: One effective recycling solution for all pods]

Rebecca Gilling: We need to bring existing programmes under the umbrella of one effective solution so that all Australians know that they can recycle their coffee pods, regardless of which type they use.

[Images move through of waste products moving through on a conveyer belt, a view looking down on the conveyer belt in the recycling facility, and then Rebecca talking, and text appears: Planet Ark are uniting industry]

Planet Ark, with our partners, are uniting industry participants in the design of the scheme so that all Australians will have access to a recycling scheme that captures those valuable materials,

[Image changes to show a close view of Rebecca talking to the camera]

keeps them out of landfill, and gives all the environmental benefits that that action brings.

[Images move through of Trevor talking to the camera, Trevor walking past a Nespresso store, a close view of Trevor recycling a bag of coffee pod capsules, and a side view of Trevor talking]

Hon Trevor Evans MP: This is a win-win-win, where we can get great environmental outcomes, and great circular economy outcomes,

[Images move through of a man putting coffee pods into a collection bin, a close view of the coffee pods landing in the bin, and then Jean-Marc looking at a brick of crushed aluminium]

at the same time as we're growing a more sustainable, self-reliant manufacturing sector, here in Australia.

[Images move through of a close view of the aluminium brick, a Velosophy bicycle, Trevor talking to the camera, and a side facing view of Trevor talking to the camera, and text appears: We can all play a part]

These are the sorts of recycling schemes where we can all play a part and improve our recycling for items that can't just automatically go into the recycling bin.

[Music plays and the image changes to show text on a blue screen: PODcycle, Supported by The National Product Stewardship Investment Fund]

[New text appears: More Information, AWE.GOV.AU]

[Image changes to show the Coat of Arms and text appears: Australian Government, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment]

To learn more about sustainable procurement, watch our recycled content videos.

Highlights

National Product Stewardship Investment Fund infographic

National Product Stewardship Investment Fund highlights:

  • 24 projects funded
  • $18.6 million invested
  • 1.6+ million tonnes of waste projected to be diverted from landfill
  • 1,000+ jobs projected

Access economics reports that recycling waste generates three times more jobs than landfilling, that is 9.2 jobs per 10,000 tonnes versus 2.8 jobs for landfill.

National Product Stewardship Investment Fund factsheets

  • ASGA TreadLightly
  • Battery Stewardship Council
  • Clothing textiles stewardship scheme
  • Coffee cup recycling
  • End-of-life solutions for PVC coated polyester textiles
  • Expanding e-waste recycling programs
  • Improving tyre recovery within the mining sector
  • National Commercial Furniture Product Stewardship Scheme
  • PODcycle
  • Recovering food packaging
  • Recycling absorbent hygiene products
  • Recycling child car seats
  • Recycling cosmetics waste
  • Recycling farm plastics
  • Recycling mattresses and bedding
  • Recycling non-packaging agri-plastics
  • Recycling Polypropylene plant packaging
  • Recycling uniforms and workwear
  • Recycling used oil containers
  • Sports Equipment Product Stewardship
  • Turning organic waste into compost

Product Stewardship Centre of Excellence

We have partnered with research and industry groups to set up a Centre of Excellence.

The centre will:

  • provide mentoring and best practice guidance
  • educate and engage business
  • help industry build networks to support national industry-led schemes.

A $1 million grant from the investment fund will support the centre.

Visit the Centre of Excellence website.

Partners

Our successful partner is a consortium that brings together:

  • Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
  • Australian Industry Group
  • Cox Inall Communications.

Meeting national targets

The National Product Stewardship Investment Fund will help us deliver relevant targets set out in the:

  • 2018 National Waste Policy
  • 2019 National Waste Policy Action Plan.

Successful grants

Organisation Title Project description Grant amount (excl GST) Completion date
Asaleo Personal Care Pty Ltd (Trading as Essity) Project Divert This project will establish a new industry-led product stewardship scheme for commercial facilities to recycle used absorbent hygiene product; a problematic waste that typically ends up in landfill. $561,031 30/12/2022
Australasian Circular Textile Association Ltd Circular Threads This project will develop a business case and design a product stewardship scheme to collect, reuse and recycle uniforms and workwear. $360,510 26/01/2023
Australia and New Zealand Recycling Platform Sports Equipment Product Stewardship This project will design and implement a National Sports Equipment Product Stewardship scheme to recycle sporting equipment. $669,125 31/03/2023
Australian Bedding Stewardship Council Limited Launch a national product stewardship scheme for mattresses and bedding This project will design and implement a product stewardship scheme for used mattresses and used bedding. $937,700 30/10/2022
Australian Fashion Council Clothing Textiles Stewardship Scheme The project will design and operationalise an industry-led stewardship scheme for clothing textiles. $1,000,000 31/03/2023
Australian Food and Grocery Council Limited National Plastics Recycling Scheme This project will bring the food and grocery supply chain together to deliver a national scheme to enhance the collection and processing of plastic packaging and increase the use of recycled content. The scheme aims to increase the recovery of plastics by an estimated 189,700 tonnes per year. $985,866 31/03/2023
Australian Resilient Flooring Association ResiLoop – Stewardship for resilient flooring This project will design, develop and trial a product stewardship scheme for resilient flooring products. $1,000,000 31/03/2023
Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association Limited Business Case to expand MobileMuster This project will develop a business case to expand the scope of MobileMuster’s e-waste collection to include electronic products that are currently not covered by other product stewardship programs. $373,200 31/01/2022
Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation Limited A comprehensive product stewardship framework for plastic oil containers This project will develop a business case, then design and implement a product stewardship scheme for used plastic oil containers. $632,000 31/03/2023
Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation Ltd - supported by Greenlife Industry Australia Polypropylene Plant Packaging Recycling Program This project will design and implement a national, industry-led, plant packaging product stewardship scheme. $549,000 30/01/2023
Australian Sporting Goods Association ASGA TreadLightly This project will establish a new industry-led program that provides the Australian public with a free sports footwear collection and recycling service. $998,531 31/01/2023
Battery Stewardship Council Establishing a National Product Stewardship Scheme for Batteries This project will establish and implement an effective and efficient National Product Stewardship Scheme for batteries in Australia. $1,000,000 31/07/2022
BioPak Pty Ltd The Compost Network This project will enhance and expand the Compost Network, an organic recycling initiative and online platform providing businesses with access to a product stewardship scheme for organic waste and compostable packaging. $398,000 31/12/2022
Close The Loop Ltd. Developing a National Cosmetics Circular Economy This project will develop a cosmetic waste stewardship scheme, including a centralised network to collect, process and recirculate used cosmetic packaging. $999,019 30/06/2022
Closed Loop Environmental Solutions Pty Ltd Simply Cups expansion and enhancement project This project will expand the Simply Cups product stewardship scheme to all states and territories; while undertaking research to ensure products manufactured from the recycled cups meet industry specifications. $697,200 31/12/2022
Dairy Australia Limited A Circular Economy for Silage Wrap This project will assess the requirements for a successful and resilient product stewardship scheme and run regional pilots before moving to national implementation. $965,400 30/03/2023
Edge Environment National Commercial Furniture Product Stewardship Scheme This project will develop a business case to minimise commercial furniture in landfill and assist in the recycling process. $372,890 30/09/2022
Equilibrium OMG Pty Ltd SeatCare This project will finalise a design and implement a product stewardship scheme for old, unwanted or obsolete child car safety seats. $930,000 31/03/2023
Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries End-of-life vehicle waste management solutions This project will design a stewardship scheme, supported by a proof of concept, to address end-of-life vehicle waste in Australia. $1,000,000 31/03/2023
Planet Ark Environmental Foundation PODcycle - National coffee capsule product stewardship recycling scheme This project will establish a national product stewardship scheme to collect and recycle all brands and types of coffee capsules (pods). $940,000 30/09/2022
RM Consulting Group Pty Ltd National Non-Packaging Agricultural Plastics Stewardship Scheme This project will develop a business case and complete a scheme design, then run two 6-month pilots in South-East Queensland and Victoria for non-packaging agricultural plastics. $893,866 31/03/2023
The Australian Furniture Association Designing out waste for commercial furniture and furnishings This project will develop a design focused product stewardship scheme for commercial furniture and furnishings. $1,000,000 31/03/2023
Tyre Stewardship Australia Improving tyre recovery within the mining sector This project will expand Tyre Stewardship Australia to recycle tyres used in mining, agriculture and aviation, rubber tracks and conveyor belts. $987,717 30/09/2022
Vinyl Council of Australia TexBack: PVC-Polyester Textiles Stewardship Scheme This project will develop the business case and design a national product stewardship scheme for PVC coated polyester textiles. $349,850 30/06/2022
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