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Cities offered free solution to reduce plastic waste
Leading Cities is inviting local governments and private organisations to apply for a free plastic waste recycling pilot that will also reduce waste collection costs.
The nonprofit Leading Cities has launched a global open call for the next edition of AcceliGov applications, which provides local governments and private organisations with an opportunity to apply for free sustainability and resiliency pilot projects.
This edition offers two prepaid pilots (one for a city and one for a private organisation) that increase plastic recycling while reducing waste collection costs.
Announcing the open call, Michael Lake, president and CEO of Leading Cities, urged city and industry leaders to “move from rhetoric to action” in dealing with growing rates of plastic waste.
The plastic waste challenge
Out of the three hundred million tons of plastic waste sent into recycling bins and facilities each year, less than 10 per cent of it is reportedly recycled. As a result, more than 90 per cent of plastic waste worldwide is getting dumped into landfills, continuing to pollute the planet, and harming the countries which have become the largest plastic waste dumping grounds.
Leading Cities, a global non-profit organisation that drives resilience and sustainability in communities around the world, opened applications for local governments and private industry organisations to apply for a no-cost pilot project.
“Automedi provides communities with the direct opportunity to transform their plastic waste into purposeful valuable products and tools for people to use and benefit from”
Automedi’s circularity-as-as-a-solution pilot aims to reduce the amount of unrecycled plastics by creating an immediate circular recycling economy that not only repurposes plastic waste into necessary objects obtained through its 3D printing vending machines, but it saves up to 98 per cent of the emissions the first time it recycles and also delivers these products cheaper. These products are built unique to the needs of the community by Automedi for a custom solution.
The pilots are open to deployment in any municipality, school, hospital, restaurant, and any industry needing to generate necessary products. It directly addresses the failure of existing recycling programmes, which actually recycles less than 10 per cent of our plastic waste.
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“Plastic recycling programmes are a complete failure for our communities and our planet. Automedi provides communities with the direct opportunity to transform their plastic waste into purposeful valuable products and tools for people to use and benefit from,” said Lake. “With so much talk about the benefits of a circular economy, these prepaid pilots offer recipients a tangible installation of a truly circular system converting rhetoric into action.”
Circular economy
By turning plastic waste into needed products, it is the first of its kind: a unified, distributed circular economy. The plastic waste is turned into filament which is then used as a consumable inside their own distributed 3D printing vending machines. Automedi’s platform is highly configurable and can be tailored to fit any requirement for plastic recycling and more specific treatment for industry processes.
Automedi was chosen from more than 550 solutions worldwide by a distinguished panel of AcceliCity Resilience finalist judges that have included representatives from the World Economic Forum, United Nations, Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, National League of Cities, Code for America, QBE Ventures, and QBE North America.
“With so much talk about the benefits of a circular economy, these prepaid pilots offer recipients a tangible installation of a truly circular system converting rhetoric into action”
AcceliGov serves to deploy some of the world’s most innovative and impactful solutions in communities of all sizes and locations around the globe. The QBE AcceliCity Resilience Challenge, which vets these solutions, has quickly become one of the top three Govtech accelerators in the world and has demonstrated tremendous impact.
AcceliCity alumni have already raised more than $648m and cities around the world have gained access to innovative solutions sourced globally and vetted by international experts.
To apply for a free pilot of the local plastic recycling machines, visit www.AcceliGOV.com before the 15 February 2023 deadline.
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