Angela GismondiFILE PHOTO - The Civic Innovation Challenge is being delivered as part of the Circular Opportunity Innovation Launchpad’s Zero Waste Economic Transformation Lab which aims to provide strategies that reduce or redirect waste. The program was launched by Guelph-Wellington earlier this year.
“We have some funding to see if a company within our area wants to pilot a change in their hauling methods and it’s aimed towards a hauling company or a contractor,” said Madeline Carter, program adviser, lead with COIL. Bids to develop waste diversion solutions are being accepted until 2:30 p.m. on Oct. 5. They can be submitted at Bids and Tenders – Guelph
COIL is looking to work with companies/organizations to prototype ideas in the food, environment and CRD sectors. Successful teams will receive $20,000 in funding to prototype their idea. The deadline to apply is Sept. 23 at 5 p.m. “There is a lot of work done throughout Canada and the United States on the circular economy within the built environment so we’re doing a lot of that background research as well.