Funding Opportunity for Plastics Reprocessing in Scotland
Closing date: 30/8/2010
Zero Waste Scotland is launching a £5 million capital grant programme on behalf of the Scottish Government to develop plastics reprocessing infrastructure in Scotland.
The programme can provide financial assistance towards facilities capable of sorting, recycling and reprocessing a range of plastic waste, thereby diverting a minimum of 20,000 additional tonnes from landfill per annum.
Zero Waste Scotland can fund up to 30% of the total eligible capital costs of the project which could include infrastructure like buildings, hard standing, access roads and purchasing plant and equipment.
To apply for support your project must:
- Be a capital investment (operating costs are not eligible for a grant) to establish one or more facilities in Scotland that can, as a minimum, segregate plastics waste arisings (plastic bottles and / or plastics packaging) and preferably sort by polymer type the resulting material. Applications to give MRFs a plastics packaging segregation and/or separation capability will also be considered. Applications would be more favourably considered that include further downstream reprocessing such as washing, grinding and melt process of at least one of the sorted streams;
- Source inputs from the Scottish household waste stream (ie bottles and plastics) which would otherwise to go to landfill, although waste arisings from other sources ie commercial & industrial, agricultural, can be included;
- Use proven technology;
- Be installed and fully operational by 31 December 2013;
- Be located in Scotland;
- Demonstrate that a need locally for the facility and not displace existing capacity;
- Demonstrate that the project viability is dependent on grant intervention;
- Be commercially sustainable in the medium and long term; and
- Demonstrate clearly defined end markets for the outputs.
Seminar
We aim to hold a seminar in Stirling on 21 April 2010 where further information will be available and the opportunity to discuss on a confidential one to one basis whether or not your project fits the scope of the programme.
For full details please contact Tania Smyth on 01786 468899, or via email.
Want to know more or to apply?
Please register your details below to download a copy of the guidance document which sets out full details of how to apply. You may find it useful to download the templates that need to be completed when you make your application.
Please quote ref: SPP001 on all correspondence
