Funding-Sustainable Solid Waste Management Research Grants; July 15, 2014

Agency Name

Environmental Research & Education Foundation

Description

The Environmental Research and Education Foundation is accepting applications for its Research in Sustainable Solid Waste Management grants program.

The program supports research projects related to sustainable solid waste management practices, including waste minimization; recycling; waste conversion to energy, biofuels, chemicals, or other useful products; strategies to promote diversion to higher and better uses (e.g., organics diversion, market analysis, optimized material management, logistics, etc.); and 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 (e.g., extended producer responsibility, recycling goals, carbon legislation, bottle bills, etc.).

Grant awards in the past have ranged from $15,000 to more than $500,000, with the average amount about $160,000.

EREF does not discriminate against any parties for any reason responding to this request for proposals. Proposals will be accepted from outside the United States and from non-academic institutions provided that the principal investigators are well-qualified to conduct the research. While postdoctoral personnel can be listed on a submitted proposal, they cannot be listed as a principal investigator.

Announcement Number:

Due Date: July 15, 2014

Link to Full Announcement

http://erefdn.org/index.php/grants/proposal

Contact Information

Bryan F. Staley, Ph.D., P.E.
President and Chief Executive Officer
919.861.6876 ext. 102
proposals@erefdn.org