£3.2 million for innovation in plastics reduction
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Seventeen ground-breaking projects announced in March 2023 have the potential to alter the UK’s relationship with, and management of, plastic packaging.
Seventeen projects selected
Funded through the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) challenge’s future plastic packaging solutions round two competition, the projects will support a broad range of innovation, including:
- Encouraging consumers to move to refill and reuse
- New edible and biodegradable bio-based materials
- Advanced recycling technologies
- Plastic pollution mapping
The SSPP challenge represents the largest UK government investment into sustainable plastic packaging. The projects announced today will go on to support the achievement of the UK Plastics Pact.
Project categories
The projects fall into three categories.
Alternative materials
Five of the projects will be assessing the viability of a range of different plant-based biodegradable polymers to replace fossil-fuel-based plastics.
The projects will develop new, ...
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