UK Research & Innovation’s Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK, will be at this year’s Resource & Waste Management 2024 event this week (Stand R-G150, Hall 19, Birmingham NEC) showcasing some of the exciting current research and innovation projects it has funded, as well as wider research initiatives to improve plastic circularity and reduce plastic pollution.

Ocado Retail and the UK Refill Coalition have announced a pilot of a new reusable packaging scheme in an effort to reduce the use of single-use packaging from customers’ weekly shops.

Leading sustainable online grocer Abel & Cole has been stealing the limelight recently with an innovation breakthrough part funded by UKRI’s Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK.

A transformative, not-for-profit packaging data-sharing platform (GING) has been launched this week to support efficient, consistent and secure capture, sharing and reporting of packaging data.