Victorian Recycling Infrastructure Plan

This section provides a concise overview the VRIP, including:

• scope and context
• land use planning and environmental approvals
• investment attraction
• directions and priorities
• actions arising from the VRIP
• infrastructure needs analysis.

This section introduces Recycling Victoria and the VRIP outlining the purpose and function of the plan and its underlying methodology, including:

• Recycling Victoria
• VRIP purpose
• objectives
• methodology
• target audience
• how to use the VRIP.

This section gives an overview of regulatory, policy and legislative settings, trends across the sector, and current and future infrastructure requirements, including:

• Victoria’s waste, recycling and resource recovery system
• policy context
• climate change
• trends affecting waste generation and resource recovery
• waste trends and infrastructure overview
• overview of current and projected total waste
• current waste, recycling and resource recovery infrastructure.

This section details existing infrastructure needs and future requirements by individual material type, including:

• organics
• paper and cardboard
• plastics
• glass
• tyres and rubber
• metal
• aggregates, masonry and soil
• textiles
• e-waste and emerging materials
• hazardous waste.

This section details the current and future recovery and transfer infrastructure needs with supporting capability and capacity analysis, including:

• resource recovery centres and transfer stations
• material recovery facilities.

This section details the current and future regional residual infrastructure needs with an overall and regional capability and capacity analysis, including:

• current infrastructure
• infrastructure needs
• overall assessment
• the landfill schedule.

This section identifies current infrastructure, waste projections and investment opportunities for each region, including:

• Barwon South West
• Gippsland
• Goulburn Valley & North East (Hume)
• Grampians Central West
• Loddon Mallee
• Port Phillip Region.

This section covers land use planning and environment processes for urban, peri-urban and regional Victoria and obligations and considerations for Traditional Owners’ rights and interests, including:

• the strategic context
• locations for new infrastructure
• assessing proposed locations for new infrastructure
• informing planning decisions relating to existing infrastructure
• informing strategic land use planning
• informing permissions and approvals
• land use maps.

This section covers security of materials supply, ongoing market demand, regulatory and policy stability and government support for businesses, including:

• investment conditions and support.

This section considers the key strategic priorities and directions for the sector, the actions for government to take in support of these directions and progress monitoring requirements, including:

• directions
• priority areas
• actions
• next steps and measuring progress.

A. Future waste, recycling and resource recovery infrastructure list.

B. Landfill schedule.

C. Modelling assumptions.

D. References.