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. ...
Plastic Packaging Innovations Receive £30 million Boost from UKRI
Posted on March 3, 2022
The Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenge has announced £30 million in funding for 18 groundbreaking collaborative projects. ...
Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Funding Launch Recording
Posted on March 3, 2022
Join the UKRI Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging team as they announce the winners of the Demonstrator and Business-led R&D competitions. You can now watch back the recording from the event ...
Biome Bioplastics and Impact Recycling: how Innovate UK shaped their journeys
Posted on March 3, 2022
Two Innovate UK funded businesses are actively eradicating plastic waste through innovative solutions; find out how Innovate UK KTN shaped the journeys of Biome Bioplastics and Impact Recycling. ...
