BORDER IMPACT BOND
Cross-border solutions for solid waste & marine-bound plastics
It all starts at home.
The Border Impact Bond is a pragmatic initiative with accomplishable goals that will re-write the border narrative.
A Big Problem
Single-use plastics, foam, tires and sediment flow across the border, threatening the Tijuana River Estuary (TRE). Quality of life, the environment, and public health in San Diego County is severely impacted, costing the state of California millions of dollars annually to clean up, but ultimately does not solve the problem or make changes at the source. The added difficulty is that state institutions are prohibited from acting upstream and can only react downstream with costly dredging and landfill measures.
3,000 tires, 60,000 cubic yards of sediment,
Millions of pieces of plastic and foam.
Current Spending is $1.8Million/ year in dredging and landfill costs!
This occupies 20% of California State Park’s
Budget for the SD Coast District.
The Solution
4Walls International has turned this problem into an investment opportunity.
California can save millions in dredging and landfill expenses while positively impacting the environment and local economy with minimal risk. The Border Impact Bond (BIB) is a public-private partnership that invests private capital in green infrastructure projects upstream to incentivise solid-waste collection in Mexico while cleaning beaches and waterways downstream in San Diego County. The solution keeps tires, plastics, foam and sediment from flowing into California, and no public funds ever cross the border.
Big Opportunity
There is a huge opportunity to re-imagine neighborhoods, beautify them and make them safer for much much less with innovative recycling and re-use programs. All while creating jobs that increase quality of life in the historically ignored corners of our border society.
Upstream priority areas that contribute the most loading have been identified for maximum-impact interventions and would control the downhill flow of waste and sediment flowing from Tijuana. Interventions are backed by 10 years of community guidance, academic research, bi-national governmental plans & strategies, and development banks worldwide. Hillslope and channel stabilization, including reforestation, armoring sub- tributary confluence hard points, batted erosion control, and road surfacing will all contribute to sediment and trash load reduction. Community- centered waste management, innovative recycling incentives, trash capture devices and regulatory enforcement will target clandestine dumpsites to create economic growth, jobs, and increased access to basic services and healthier communities.
Creating Jobs That…
Beautify neighborhoods
Feed families
Increase service areas
More economic stability
The best part…
It’s completely scalable. The complexity of environmental impact from upstream pollution can be found not only in other cross-border terrains of the region, but across the world. 4Walls International is the framework for solutions to a problem that once proven in our region, can be applied anywhere in the world today.
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