Welcome to the first instalment of our new weekly series of news updates from the UK Circular Plastics Network, entitled Plastics Newsroom.

Innovate UK is changing its relationship with KTN to create the Innovate UK KTN.

Climate change is a chemical problem and chemistry and chemical engineering can provide some of the solutions. What kind of chemistry should we be doing? Two of our speakers at GRIPS 2022, Anthony J. Ryan and Rachael H. Rothman, try to answer this question with their article on Nature.com

Watch back the recording from BPF’s event with Horners, on the road to net zero. Also find out about BPF’s Net Zero Hub.

With over £30 million funding already awarded to date, the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge programme is supporting projects to drive major changes around plastic packaging reduction, re-use and recycling.

Single-use cutlery and plates could be banned in England as part of a public consultation, and call for evidence launched to tackle other problematic plastics.

Find out more about Impact Recycling, a recipient of UKRI’s Sustainable Innovation Fund for adaption of their existing recycling technology, BOSS.

On 17th November 2021, the Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub (SMI Hub) hosted a workshop with UK Circular Plastics Network (UKCPN), to work through the challenges reprocessors and recyclers face in dealing with plastic waste.

Better World Collective is proud to partner with Innovate UK KTN, an innovation exchange network creating diverse connections to drive positive change.

You’re up to three times more likely to receive funding in Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging challenge if you contact KTN.