The Business Food Waste Partnership Grants program provides funding to peak bodies, sector leaders, councils, educators and other relevant organisations working with food wasting businesses, to help them reduce and source separate food waste.

The program supports NSW Government targets to halve organics waste sent to landfill and achieve net zero emissions from organics waste in landfill by 2030.

The Food Waste Partnership Grants provide funding for projects that:

• raise awareness of FOGO business mandates requirement
• support businesses that meet the FOGO mandate threshold to source separate food waste. Note in Round 3 priority will be given to projects that support businesses that meet the threshold to source separate food waste from 1 July 2026
• provide food businesses with knowledge and skills in food waste reduction and source separation
• provide tools and training to source separate and reduce food waste.

The grants support projects that will contribute to the following NSW Government waste targets:

• Reduce total waste generated by 10% per person by 2030
• 80% average resource recovery rate from all waste streams by 2030
• Halve the amount of organic waste sent to landfill by 2030.

The program provides $7 million over 4 years from 2023-27. Up to $200,000 ex GST is available for projects to educate and support businesses and institutions to source separate food waste.

Applications are open to industry peak bodies, sector leaders, councils and relevant organisations. Eligible applicants must:

1. be an organisation with an Australian Business Number (ABN)
2. be operational in NSW
3. demonstrate experience in project delivery with the target audience
4. be an owner of an active network and/or have ongoing engagement with the target audience
5. demonstrate the project is a new activity that can be incorporated into, or build on, existing activities, programs or other initiatives
6. provide evidence, such as a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), detailing the clearly defined roles and responsibilities for each party involved in the delivery of a joint project
7. demonstrate shared values or organisational goals aligned with the NSW organics waste and emissions targets
8. deliver education and communication that aligns with the EPA position statement on what can be recycled through Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO) or Food Organics (FO) bins
9. be submitted using SmartyGrants by 4pm 21 October 2025.

Applications that do not satisfy these conditions will be deemed ineligible and will not be funded.

• Email: organics.grants@epa.nsw.gov.au or info@epa.nsw.gov.au