NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing a sustainable alternative packaging ecosystem in the Great Lakes region (MI, OH)

NSF 引擎开发奖：推动五大湖地区（密歇根州、俄亥俄州）可持续替代包装生态系统

• 批准号: 2314459
• 负责人: Bradley Fingland
• 金额: $ 99.95万
• 依托单位: MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-04-15 至 2026-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2314459&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engines; Development; Award; Advancing

This NSF Regional Innovation Engines Development Award is focused on developing alternative packaging using waste materials. It seeks to build the foundations of an ecosystem that will address packaging waste pollution through a total transformation of existing practices via convergence and coordination of diverse stakeholder groups. Essentially, the goals are to reduce the amount of plastic material in landfills and to increase the lifespan of plastic materials by developing and/or refining alternate markets for plastics use. The project is led by Michigan State University Research Foundation, with the Region of Service broadly defined as encompassing the Great Lakes Region.This project will help change the current treatment of packaging as waste into profitable feedstocks that, combined with agricultural and industrial wastes, will supply the packaging supply chain. The Great Lakes Region is an economic powerhouse representing some of the largest paper and plastics manufacturers and end users. The SHAPE Engine, through its established, growing, and diverse ecosystem of educational institutions, government entities, non-profits, communities, and companies of all sizes, will seamlessly identify and fill all the gaps impeding sustainable packaging today. The effort seeks to establish the Region as a world leader in decarbonized, circular, bio-based, and recycled plastic and paper packaging that addresses United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, and ultimately could help other regions and countries mirror its successful deployment and institutionalization of sustainable packaging. Partnerships to expand technology translation, commercialization, and enhanced development of a diverse community workforce are key components that will be addressed in this project.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.

NSF区域创新发动机开发奖的重点是使用废料开发替代包装。它旨在建立生态系统的基础，该基础将通过汇聚和各种利益相关者群体的融合和协调来解决现有实践的全面转变来解决包装废物污染。从本质上讲，目标是减少垃圾填埋场中塑料材料的量，并通过开发和/或精炼塑料的替代市场来增加塑料材料的寿命。该项目由密歇根州立大学研究基金会（Michigan University Research Foundation）领导，服务区域被广泛定义为涵盖大湖地区。该项目将有助于将当前的包装处理作为废物的处理方式，并将其与农业和工业废物相结合，将提供包装供应链。大湖地区是代表一些最大的纸张和塑料制造商和最终用户的经济强国。形状引擎通过其建立，成长和多样化的教育机构，政府实体，非营利组织，社区和各种规模的公司的生态系统，将无缝地识别并填补所有阻碍当今可持续包装的差距。这项努力旨在将该地区建立为世界领导者，成为脱碳，循环，基于生物的塑料和纸包装，以解决联合国的可持续发展目标，并最终可以帮助其他地区和国家反映其成功的部署和可持续包装的机构化。扩大技术翻译，商业化和增强社区劳动力发展的合作伙伴关系是将在本项目中解决的关键组成部分。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准通过评估来进行评估。