(FOA)-Sustainable
Solid Waste Management Research; May 1, 2019
Agency
Environmental
Research and Education Foundation
Description
The
sustainability movement has reached the business models of nearly every
industry in the United States, and many companies, municipalities and states
have set aggressive sustainability goals that include how waste streams are
being managed. The EREF Board of Directors has set an initiative to ensure
research funded reflects EREF’s long-term strategic plan to address all areas
of integrated solid waste management, with a strong focus towards research that
increased sustainable solid waste management practices.
Pre-proposal topics must relate to sustainable solid waste management practices
and pertain to the following topic areas: 1) Waste minimization 2) Recycling 3)
Waste conversion to energy, biofuels, chemicals or other useful products 4)
Strategies to promote diversion to higher and better uses (e.g. organics
diversion, market analysis, optimized material management, logistics, etc. and
5) Landfilling.
Desirable
aspects of the above topics, in addition to or as part of hypothesis driven
applied research, also include: economic or cost/benefit analyses, feasibility
studies for untested technologies or management strategies, life cycle analysis
or inventory, and analyses of policies that relate to the
above.
Closing
Date
May
1, 2019
Link
to Full Announcement
Contact
Information
(919)
861-6876