Applications Invited for Third call for PWP Pilot Project Proposals

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About the Organization

The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal was adopted on 22 March 1989 by the Conference of Plenipotentiaries in Basel, Switzerland, in response to a public outcry following the discovery, in the 1980s, in Africa and other parts of the developing world of deposits of toxic wastes imported from abroad.

Awakening environmental awareness and corresponding tightening of environmental regulations in the industrialized world in the 1970s and 1980s had led to increasing public resistance to the disposal of hazardous wastes – in accordance with what became known as the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) syndrome – and to an escalation of disposal costs. This in turn led some operators to seek cheap disposal options for hazardous wastes in Eastern Europe and the developing world, where environmental awareness was much less developed and regulations and enforcement mechanisms were lacking. It was against this background that the Basel Convention was negotiated in the late 1980s, and its thrust at the time of its adoption was to combat the “toxic trade”, as it was termed. The Convention entered into force in 1992.

Objective:

The overarching objective of the Basel Convention is to protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects of hazardous wastes and other wastes requiring special consideration. Its scope of application covers a wide range of wastes defined as “hazardous wastes” based on their origin and/or composition and their characteristics, as well as four types of wastes defined as “other wastes” - household waste, incinerator ash, certain plastic wastes and certain electronic and electrical wastes.

About the Grant

A Plastic Waste Partnership (PWP) has been established under the Basel Convention to mobilise business, government, academic and civil society resources, interests and expertise to improve and promote the environmentally sound management (ESM) of plastic waste at the global, regional and national levels and to prevent and minimize its generation.

Goal:

The goal of the PWP is to improve and promote the ESM of plastic waste at the global, regional and national levels and to prevent and minimize its generation so as to, among other things, reduce significantly and in the long-term eliminate the discharge of plastic waste and microplastics into the environment, in particular the marine environment.

Overall tasks:

The overall tasks of the PWP include those listed below. The full list can be found in the terms of reference.

• Advance the prevention, minimization, collection and environmentally sound management of plastic waste;
• Undertake pilot projects which support the delivery of the other overall tasks;
• Collect, analyse and consider possibilities to improve information on transboundary movements of plastic waste;
• Encourage and promote relevant innovation, research and development.

PWP working group and project groups:

The work of the Partnership is overseen by a working group which established four project groups at its first face-to-face meeting as follows:

• Plastic waste prevention and minimization
• Plastic waste collection, recycling and other recovery including financing and related markets
• Transboundary movements of plastic waste
• Outreach, education and awareness-raising

Pilot projects:

Pilot projects are to be implemented under the Basel Convention PWP to improve and promote the environmentally sound management (ESM) of plastic waste and to prevent and minimize its generation. To date, 23 pilot projects have been selected for implementation.

A third call for proposals for pilot projects under the PWP is open.

• Indicative budget: approx. USD 50,000 to 180,000 per project, for national projects, and USD 200,000 to 500,000 for regional projects.
• Indicative timeframe: approx. 12-24 months for national projects and 18-24 for regional projects.
• Selection decision expected in September 2025.

Eligibility

Proposals may be submitted by:

• Parties to the BRS Conventions;
• Basel and Stockholm Convention Regional and Coordinating Centres;
• not-for-profit entities that have observer status under the Basel Convention; and
• non-Party States that have observer status under the Basel Convention.

How to Apply

Deadline for submission: 30 April 2025 at 23h59 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Modalities for the submission, selection, implementation and evaluation of pilot projects of the Basel Convention Partnership on Plastic Waste working group

Template for proposals

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