About the Waste Minimisation and Innovation Fund

Eligibility for the Waste Minimisation and Innovation Fund (WMIF)

The WMIF will support projects that:

promote or achieve waste minimisation
include educational projects that promote waste minimisation activity only
result in new waste minimisation activity, either by:
- implementing new initiatives, or
- a significant expansion in the scope or coverage of existing activities.
last for a funding timeframe of one to three years, after which the project objectives should have been achieved and, where appropriate, the initiative has become self-funding.

The fund will cover:

projects that promote or achieve waste minimisation
operational or capital expenditure required to undertake a project
up to 50 per cent of the cost of the project. You will need to demonstrate adequate sources of additional funding from your own or other resources
educational projects that promote waste minimisation activity only.

You should know

The fund doesn't cover:

projects that focus on waste disposal or on the treatment of wastes for disposal/clean ups.
ongoing financial support of existing activities
running costs of the existing activities of organisations, individuals or firms
projects that are inconsistent with Auckland Council’s Waste Minimisation and Management
Plan 2018
projects that do not involve waste generated from within the Auckland region
retrospective projects where the funding sought is for work already completed
debt servicing
activities which duplicate other demonstration projects or pilot studies.