PISCES PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

The PISCES programme structure is designed around a framework of six interconnected work packages (WPs). These six WPs provide the core integrative requirements of a systems level approach to address the three themes of our programme:

1) Understanding the sources and drivers of plastic pollution

2) Assessing the impacts of plastic pollution

3) Co-designing interventions, mitigations, and adaptations.

WP1 are applying state of the art modelling approaches to understand the causes, sources and pathways of plastic waste and to identify hotspots, informing intervention.

WP2 will establish rapid and robust approaches to understand and monitor sources, distribution and fate of plastic waste generation and littering in Indonesia.

WP3 provides analysis of the impacts of plastic waste leakage on ecosystem services, ecosystem functions, and social and economic structures. Building this evidence base will continue throughout the programme, and will be central to assessing and evaluating the systems of interest before and after intervention. Crucially, WP3 will inform the identification of possible interventions, and their design – the pivotal components of WP4, 5, and 6.

WP4 will contribute to the understanding of behavioural and cultural factors associated with consumption, use, and disposal of plastic products in human systems. WP4 will contribute to WP5, which provides an integrative systems framework (CVORR) within which mass and monetary data collections can be harmonised.

WP5 will also analyse the whole system and identify interventions applicable to different levels of society (local, regional, national). The framework of WP5 is interconnected with the other WPs, and will ultimately provide an overall assessment of how to create value from plastic waste and maximise the efficiency of identified solutions.

WP6 makes theoretical solutions a reality, involving design, testing and iteration of social and technical structures to reduce and eliminate plastic leakage and promote system enablement.

Our systems approach brings environmental, economic, technical and social disciplines together to build scientific understanding of cultural and geographic drivers of attitudes and behaviours underlying plastic use and littering (in this case in the absence of collection infrastructure). It analyses ‘source to sink’ dynamics of plastic leakage and litter, as well as ecological and economic risks and impacts, and potential development of interventions that eliminate leakage of waste plastic into the Indonesian environment.

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WP1: Material Flows Modelling and Prediction

WP1: Material Flows Modelling and Prediction

We are applying state-of-the-art modelling approaches to understand the causes, sources, and pathways of plastic waste to identify hotspots and inform interventions.

WP2: Environmental Measurement and Monitoring

WP2: Environmental Measurement and Monitoring

We will establish rapid and robust approaches to understand and monitor the source, distribution, and fate of plastic waste in Indonesia.

WP3: Socioeconomic Assessment

WP3: Socioeconomic Assessment

We are pioneering cutting-edge approaches to understand and model environmental, socioeconomic, and health and wellbeing benefits of reducing plastic contamination in Indonesia.

WP4: Behaviour Change

WP4: Behaviour Change

We are researching social and behavioural changes needed to reduce plastic pollution.

WP5: Systems Analysis

WP5: Systems Analysis

We will develop a system-wide plastic pollution prevention toolkit, via integration of sustainable production, consumption, and management of plastic resources.

WP6: Innovation

WP6: Innovation

We are designing and testing innovations to prevent and reduce plastic leakage into the environment, looking to drive a sustainable plastic economy through upstream re-design.

Our Team

PISCES is contributed to by an interdisciplinary group of experts from universities, research institutions, and technical bodies across the UK, Indonesia, and Asia.

Meet our team