Project description
Bio-based solutions for the humanitarian sector’s waste management
The global waste crisis is forcing a major rethink in how we handle humanitarian logistics. While emergency aid is vital for saving lives, the massive amount of packaging and discarded supplies often creates a long-term environmental burden for the communities receiving it. The EU-funded Bio4HUMAN project aims to identify bio-based solutions for solid waste management. It will conduct a scoping exercise to list potential solutions, identify supply chain gaps, and evaluate the socio-economic impacts of these solutions through life-cycle assessments. Feasibility evaluations will take place in Africa. The project will also develop a roadmap for future implementation, ultimately seeking to improve waste management and create sustainable value chains for consumers in Europe and beyond.
Objective
As the solid waste management crisis is growing in its urgency, humanitarian aid practitioners are faced with the question of how to manage environmental challenges linked with aid that is being shipped across various humanitarian settings. One of the sound solutions how to address this challenge is to open up a streamline of cooperation between humanitarian aid operators and the bio-based sector allowing them to explore the application potential of bio-based products, systems, and innovative technological solutions. Bio4HUMAN aims to contribute to the identification of bio-based solutions for solid waste management that have the potential to be applicable in various humanitarian settings. To achieve this goal, Bio4HUMAN will conduct a scoping exercise that will come up with a list of solutions but also identify existing supply chain gaps. Following that, it performs life cycle assessments of the proposed solutions and evaluates their applicability with regard to socio-economic and governance aspects. To explore if solutions fit the purpose of key solid waste management stakeholders and to explore the possibility of their acceptance by the community, local businesses, and local authorities, Bio4HUMAN conducts a feasibility evaluation process in 2 African locations. Simultaneously, the project will develop a replication roadmap that will contribute to the future replicability of the solutions identified. Altogether, all of the Bio4HUMAN’s actions will help to improve ways of addressing waste management challenges under humanitarian contexts and to the reduction of waste littered in the environment. In the long run, Bio4HUMAN is expected to contribute to the development of innovative and sustainable value chains that will benefit consumers and citizens in Europe and beyond.
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HORIZON.2.6 - Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL6-2023-CIRCBIO-01
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7632845 Rehovot
Israel
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