New reports into the growing opportunities for recycled PET in India
Posted on November 21, 2022
Two new India Plastics Pact reports on market opportunities for recycled PET and a video on India’s informal waste management have just been published. ...
Sustainable Plastics Live 2023 joins forces with market-leading Global Research & Innovation in Plastics Sustainability (GRIPS) Conference
Posted on October 24, 2022
Sustainable Plastics Live 2023 and the Innovate UK KTN GRIPS team are partnering to host this event which is the only dedicated plastics sustainability conference in the UK and is ...
Cheltenham and South Gloucestershire join the UK’s biggest flexible plastic household collection and recycling pilot
Posted on October 12, 2022
Cheltenham and South Gloucestershire are the first local authorities to agree to trial kerbside collections of flexible plastic packaging under the Flexible Plastic Fund (FPF) FlexCollect project. ...
Apply now for Future Plastic Packaging Solutions Round 2
Posted on October 10, 2022
Are you innovating in sustainable plastics? Then don’t forget to check out the new funding competition from the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenge. ...
RWM: Changing the Game for Plastic Packaging
Posted on September 21, 2022
UKRI’s Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenge attended this year’s RWM & Letsrecycle Live (Stand R-P160) sharing news about a planned new funding competition to drive sustainability in plastic packaging ...
New funding competition to drive innovation in smart sustainable plastics
Posted on September 20, 2022
UK Research & Innovation’s Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenge has launched a new £2.5 million Future Plastic Packaging Solutions Round 2 competition for research and innovation projects seeking grant ...
iX Challenges: re-processing, re-using or modifying excess PPE and hand sanitiser
Posted on August 30, 2022
This challenge is to support the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) in finding innovators that can reprocess, re-use or modify large quantities of surplus PPE gowns, goggles, visors ...
Partnering up to end plastic packaging waste
Posted on July 28, 2022
£1.2 million innovation funding and a knowledge exchange network to stimulate global collaboration are just two ways in which the UK is working with international partners to help catalyse change ...
UKCPN’s Plastics Newsroom – Episode 7: 24th May 2022
Posted on May 24, 2022
Welcome to the seventh instalment of our new series of news updates from the UK Circular Plastics Network, entitled Plastics Newsroom. ...
FlexCollect: Industry-led consortium announces UK’s biggest flexible plastic household collection and recycling pilot
Posted on May 20, 2022
The £2.9m Flexible Plastic Fund FlexCollect project is the most extensive pilot for household collection and recycling of flexible plastic packaging ever undertaken in the UK. It is supported by ...
Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge Release Three Case Studies
Posted on April 27, 2022
The Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge Team have released three case studies on ReNew ELP, Recycling by Design, and Reath. Find out more below. ...
