Afri-Plastics Challenge

The Afri-Plastics Challenge is part of the Marine Litter Mitigation Fund which targets to lessen marine plastics in Sub-Saharan Africa by developing and scaling innovative solutions to plastic mismanagement. It involves a public competition that will reward the best solutions to addressing marine plastic litter in developing countries in a way that promotes gender equality and empowerment of women and girls.

The Challenge will help communities throughout Sub-Saharan Africa to prevent plastic waste from entering the marine environment by finding ways to minimize reliance on plastic, new ways of managing plastic waste, and/or new uses for plastic that has been discarded.

Applicants must be formally constituted and operating in Sub-Saharan Africa as either a registered business or non-governmental organization.

For all details on the challenge: https://afri-plastics.challenges.org/about-the-challenge/

The closing date for applications is 15 September 2021.