Deadline- May 15, 2012
The goal of the LAUNCH: Beyond Waste Challenge is to identify ten “game changing” innovations that have the potential to transform the current waste management systems and practices to ones focused on minimizing waste and/or transforming waste into new products.
LAUNCH invites proposals for innovative design for zero waste solutions, waste elimination, waste transformation, and waste mitigation technologies, as well as waste reduction-focused education, business, and financial strategies that have the potential to reduce and/or eliminate waste at a household, community, office building, campus, or industrial level.
The Waste Hierarchy establishes a ranking of management options in context of increasing environmental impact, and is based on the simple premise that it is better to avoid generating waste than to treat or dispose of waste.
The ultimate goal of LAUNCH is a sustainable future for planet Earth and its inhabitants.
ELIGIBILITY–
Responses from companies (small to large), consultants, entrepreneurs, inventors, nonprofit organizations with strong program implementation capacity, research institutions, social enterprises, and venture capitalists are welcome. Applicants poised to “go to market” and/or scale up their innovations will receive the most benefit from the LAUNCH experience. A principal from your organization must be available to attend the LAUNCH: Beyond Waste Forum at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California from July18 to July 22, 2012.
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