CEFAS23-113 Contract for services for Waste Audit Framework Creation and Waste Baseline Data Collection in Sri Lanka, under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP)

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The OCPP was announced in 2021 as a key bilateral aid programme under the £500m Blue Planet Fund. The OCPP is a UK Government-led programme delivered under the Blue Planet Fund. Through this programme, Cefas, in partnership with JNCC and MMO, provide technical assistance to support countries in tackling marine pollution, support sustainable seafood practices, and establish designated, well-managed and enforced MPAs. Currently, there is a lack of easily accessible waste data available in Sri Lanka. Cefas requires services to to establish a baseline data set, which can be used to set waste and plastic reduction targets against and develop a method for ongoing periodic collections; this work will aim to provide the foundations. This work will collect a set of baseline data across Sri Lanka and design a method for the future monitoring of waste in Sri Lanka. The project is broken into two elements 1) Creation of a Waste Audit Framework, and 2) Data Collection.

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