2019 Global Symposium on Waste Plastic

2019全球废塑料研讨会

• 批准号: 1947262
• 负责人: Jeffrey Seay
• 金额: $ 1.58万
• 依托单位: American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-11-01 至 2020-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1947262&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2019; Global; Symposium; Waste; Plastic

This award will provide support for a symposium titled "2019 Global Symposium on Waste Plastic" scheduled for September 19-20, 2019 in Lexington, KY at the University of Kentucky Gatton Student Center. The proposal will provide partial support for attendees, including a significant number of students. The symposium will focus on developing effective strategies for the management of waste plastic accumulation, which is an important and timely challenge facing not only the US but other countries, especially those in the developing world. The magnitude of the problem is exemplified by waste plastic that currently circulates in oceans, which is especially challenging to remediate. A variety of remediation strategies have been implemented to reduce or otherwise control the accumulation of waste plastic, but, they have not been optimized and have negative environmental effects of their own. The symposium will review recent achievements in academia, government, non-profits, and industry to reduce, recover, reuse, recycle, and remanufacture for the waste plastic supply chain.The symposium will provide opportunities for academic, government, industrial, and non-profit researchers to interact with each other through a series of presentations and informal meetings. Participants will reflect diverse fields of research, including biology, chemistry, and engineering disciplines. The symposium will engage a significant number of young researchers, including graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Support will be provided for students, especially those from underrepresented groups in engineering, including persons with disabilities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项将为定于2019年9月19日至20日在列克星敦，肯塔基州在肯塔基州加顿学生中心大学举行的题为“2019全球废塑料研讨会”的研讨会提供支持。 该提案将为与会者提供部分支持，包括大量学生。 研讨会将重点关注制定有效的废塑料积累管理战略，这不仅是美国，也是其他国家，特别是发展中国家面临的重要而及时的挑战。 这个问题的严重性体现在目前在海洋中循环的废塑料上，这对补救来说尤其具有挑战性。 人们已经实施了多种修复策略来减少或以其他方式控制废塑料的积累，但它们尚未得到优化，并且本身也对环境产生了负面影响。本次研讨会将回顾学术界、政府、非营利组织和工业界在减少、回收、再利用、再循环和再制造废弃塑料供应链方面的最新成果，并通过一系列演讲和非正式会议，为学术界、政府、工业界和非营利组织的研究人员提供相互交流的机会。 参与者将反映不同的研究领域，包括生物学，化学和工程学科。 研讨会将吸引大量年轻研究人员，包括研究生和博士后研究人员。 该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。