(FOA)-Intercepting
Plastic Waste from Rivers; July 12, 2019
Agency
Benioff
Ocean Initiative
Description
Through
the RFP, up to $3 million will be awarded in installments to a single team to
design and implement a pilot plastic waste intervention strategy, both to
effectively capture plastic and also create change inspired by the waste
captured that addresses issues associated with plastic waste production and
management in and around rivers.
Teams
are invited to submit proposals for pilot projects aligned with both of the
following goals:
Effectively
deploy a physical plastic waste capture system, in a river anywhere in the
world, that will intercept a significant amount of plastic waste in that river
before it reaches the ocean. The proposed river plastics capture system should
include the most effective techniques for plastic interception in the proposed
river system. The complexity of engineering solutions can range from
traditional to novel.
Effectively
leverage the plastic intercepted by the capture system to communicate about the
problem of plastic waste to the community where the intervention is based. The
intervention itself should provide data and inspiration to community partners
that empowers them to consider taking action in one or more of the following
areas, including local infrastructure for waste management and recycling, local
engagement and behaviors associated with the generation of plastic waste, local
policy governing waste management or plastic waste, or regional industry
standards associated with plastic waste.
Teams
should include representation from all or most of the following categories: a
non-governmental organization (or similar) which will convene, organize, and
oversee activities of all partners in the collaborative team as well as receive
and manage project funds; a governmental advisor with the jurisdiction to
permit a plastic waste intervention strategy in the river of interest; a
communication specialist that will mobilize incoming data on plastic captured
to identify the sources and routes by which plastic waste comes to that river;
engineers to design and implement the physical river plastic waste capture
system; and watershed or other environmental scientists to advise or conduct in
situ research to guide elements of the plastic waste capture system. A
non-governmental (or similar organization) shall serve as the team
leader.
Proposals
are welcomed from teams focused on a focal river in any region of the world and
need not be submitted from top-ranked high plastic emissions rivers. The
foundation especially encourages proposals from focal rivers in which the river
is situated in a region that can be shown to have high concentrations of
plastic waste or in which plastic waste presents a particularly high threat to
communities or local ocean health; and in which plastic capture systems are
planned near a city or settlement of a size that could stand to meaningfully
collaborate with communications specialists on the proposal team to use the
data and story of the plastic waste collected in capture system to address
regional problems with plastic waste.
Closing
Date
July
12, 2019
Link
to Full Announcement
https://boi.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/BOI-River_Plastics_RFP.pdf
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