Deadline: 14-Jan-22
The City of Vancouver is seeking innovative, functional and scalable solutions that will help eliminate the disposal of waste (solid and organic) to landfill and incinerator.
Zero Waste 2040 is a long-term strategic vision for Vancouver. The primary objective of the Plan is to eliminate the disposal of solid waste to landfill and incinerator by 2040, through alignment with an approach which includes, in order of priority:
- Avoid & Reduce
Avoid the generation of waste and reduce the amount of waste that can’t be avoided.
- Reuse
Prioritize material reuse such as sharing, repurposing, repairing and refurbishing over recycling and disposal.
- Recycle & Energy Recovery
Increase the total amount of material recycled, reduce carbon emission by maximizing the recovery of inedible food and green waste for composting and renewable energy recovery.
Benefits
- Participation in a high-quality EU programme that seeks to streamline state-of-the-art technologies and sustainable solutions into the Canadian Market;
- Tailored delivery of technical assistance and business coaching to enable Joint Business Concepts (JBCs) between EU SMEs & Canadian Buyers.
- The opportunity to work directly with a Canadian buyer that is actively seeking innovative solutions.
Eligibility Criteria
- All Challenges are fully open to all EU companies who feel they can meet the Buyer Challenge Statement.
- To facilitate purposeful business collaborations between Canadian Buyers and EU Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) and Small/Mid-Caps and Mature-Startups and Micro-Enterprises, that have a distinct positive low-carbon and circular economy environmental impact, are scalable, reflect a sound return on investment, and enable innovative technology transfer and business transactions.
Criteria
- The City is seeking low-cost, high impact solutions that help to eliminate the disposal of solid waste to landfill and incinerator. Solutions can include, but are not limited to, alternative recycling technologies, food rescue and recovery solutions, biogas, biofuel production technologies, and fleet material recycling (scrap metal, oil and batteries).
- The City of Vancouver is targeting companies with solutions that land between TRL 6-9 of the technology readiness scale (TRL), although it will consider low TRL solutions on a demonstration basis if they are especially novel.
- Proponents must explain how their solutions meets safety and regulatory standards and provide a description of successful deployments where applicable.
- Provide CAPEX and OPEX details for the solution. The City of Vancouver prefers an investment payback/cost recovery within fewer than five years. However, it will consider five- to eight-year paybacks with additional due diligence.
- If applicable, proponents should explain coverage (i.e., how many installations will the solution need?), impact (i.e., how does the solution help Vancouver achieve its Zero Waste 2040 Strategic Plan), reliability (i.e., how well will the solution perform in real-world environments?).
For more information, visit https://lcbacanada.com/challenge-archive/municipal-waste-reduction-and-reuse-vec-city-of-vancouver/