SCIP Plastics Project
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. 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 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 overall objective of this project is the long-term establishment of a knowledge transfer hub on the campus of CUET and KUET for land-based reduction and prevention of marine plastic waste in the Bay of Bengal. The SCIP Plastics project is split up into five distinct working groups (WG I-V) according to their activities and goals. The working groups are directly responsible for the timely completion of the project objectives under different work packages. As an implementing partner of SCIP project, the activities of CUET are organized by working group IV (Case Study Mongla Port) and V (Plastics substitution potential by Jute).
Impact(s)
Outcome(s)
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.
Project Outputs
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
Secondary disposal points assessment
Increase plastic recycling rate and reduce environmental pollution through accepted reorganized collection at source / close to source
Recycling-Shops assessment
Integration of non-recyclable sorted out plastics from the private recycling sector into the municipal collection system
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
Case Study Mongla Port
Identification and transfer of countermeasures to Chattogram port of imminent plastic discharge into the ocean
Plastics substitution potential by Jute
Evaluation of plastic substitution potentials in different areas (city and harbour) and implementation strategies of selected local jute products
