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New Plastics Economy Innovation Prize: Apply for $1 million Circular Design Challenge!

Building Community Resilience through the Reduction and Prevention of Nonpoint Source Pollution

Deadline: 11 June 2017

The New Plastics Economy Innovation Prize is currently inviting designers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and academics to create a plastics system that works.

The New Plastics Economy Innovation Prize is led by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and was launched in collaboration with HRH The Prince of Wales’s International Sustainability Unit. The Prize is funded by Wendy Schmidt, Lead Philanthropic Partner of the New Plastics Economy Initiative.

Participants may apply for any of the following two challenges, namely:

  1. $1 million Circular Design Challenge
  2. $1 million Circular Materials Challenge

The Circular Design Challenge

The Circular Design Challenge, led by the Ellen Macarthur Foundation and hosted by OpenIDEO, is calling upon a global community to submit ideas, innovations, and new technologies with the potential to transform the plastics economy.

The Circular Design Challenge seeks to inspire creatives to design solutions for plastics packaging to stay in the economy, and out of the environment.

A solution could target one or several of these use cases, and could for example work by eliminating the need for small-format packaging that cannot be recycled, or where redesigned formats enable packaging that is economically viable for recycling and not prone to escape into the environment. Some possible conceptual angles could be:

Solutions

For this Challenge, the following solutions are not in scope:

Evaluation Criteria

Submitted ideas to the Circular Design Challenge will be evaluated by an experienced Judging Panel according to the following criteria:

Award Details

Eligibility Criteria

How to Apply

Interested participants must apply online via given website.

For more information, please visit Circular Design Challenge.

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