Long-term reduction of marine plastic pollution in the oceans and protection of vulnerable aquatic life and habitats

Reduction of plastic pollution paths from land to sea though a transition of the current insufficient waste management system in Bangladesh to a demand- and resource-oriented, safe and flexible process chain from collection to disposal.

Output I

Establishment of a Knowledge Transfer Hub at the CUET campus

Union of stakeholders and decision-makers in the waste sector, overcoming administrative, technical and socio-economic barriers for municipal plastic waste reduction

Output II

Secondary disposal points assessment

Increase plastic recycling rate and reduce environmental pollution through accepted

reorganized collection at source / close to source

Output III

Recycling-Shops assessment

Integration of non-recyclable sorted out plastics from the private recycling sector into

the municipal collection system

Output IV

Landfill assessment

Long-term ensured safe disposal of waste and prevention of open plastic pollution of

the environment at the current landfill site and the perspective development

Output V

Case Study Mongla Port

Identification and transfer of countermeasures to Chattogram port of imminent plastic

discharge into the ocean

Output VI

Plastics substitution potential by Jute

Evaluation of plastic substitution potentials in different areas (city and harbour) and

implementation strategies of selected local jute products

The project entitled "Sustainable Capacity building to reduce Irreversible Pollution by Plastics-shortly SCIP Plastics Project" is a collaborative research between Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology (CUET), Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Khulna, Bangladesh and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (BUW), Germany. The overall objective of this project is the long-term establishment of a knowledge transfer hub on the campus of CUET for land-based reduction and prevention of marine plastic waste in the Bay of Bengal. In this hub, competencies in the fields of activity of plastic prevention, substitution and circular economy will be trained and bundled, sustainable guidelines will be developed and policy advice will be offered. This project is the Grant Programme against marine litter funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany. Within the framework of the consortium, BUW is responsible for the overall coordination of the project. The Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) is accompanying involved. In particular, all participatory processes in the working groups i.e. in the integration of the informal sector, are supported by ISOE in terms of technical content and are to be understood as interactive, adapted processes. The political partners in Bangladesh are Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh; University Grants Commission of Bangladesh; Mayor's office Khulna City Corporation; Mayor's office of Mongla Pourashava and Nirala Janokallan Sanity at Ward no. 24. The duration of the project is from 1^st April 2022 to 30 November 2024.