POLLUTION AND WASTE MANAGEMENT

To protect human health and preserve ecosystems, FFEM promotes training, awareness, and information for producers and consumers, with the goal of encouraging changes in behavior. With our actions, we want to help bring about a transition to a circular-economy model that includes the entire life cycle of products, from prevention to waste recycling. We also support the emergence of bio-economy sectors, by promoting a cooperative-type energy model and the production of biomass for energy.

FFEM supports projects that aim rational use of chemicals, one of the challenges being the transition to safer alternatives. We especially take into consideration persistent organic pollutants (POPs), heavy metals, and pesticides. We also support projects that reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants, mainly soot, methane, fluorinated gases, and ozone, which represent a major environmental and health threat due to their impact on climate and air pollution. All these projects include awareness raising activities aimed at changing practices, and the transfer of skills and technologies

In countries of the South where access to adequate and efficient hazardous waste management services is limited, FFEM supports projects that seek to prevent the production of such waste, promote their recovery and improve treatment systems. In particular, we target areas that are significant sources of or impacted by poor waste management. For example, these projects encourage the strengthening of governance and the structuring of waste-management channels. Waste from electrical and electronic equipment and plastic waste receive special attention due to their increasing volume and impact on ecosystems.