Summary
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £7 million from the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Programme in innovation projects.
These projects must have the potential to significantly impact the 2025 UK Plastics Pact targets in the long term, and address widely known problems related to plastic packaging for consumer products.
Your proposal must:
Eligibility
Your project must:
To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:
A business can only lead on one application but can be included as a collaborator in a further 2 applications.
If a business is not leading any application, it can collaborate in up to 3 applications.
Scope
The SSPP Challenge aims to establish the UK as a leading innovator in smart and sustainable plastic packaging for consumer products. Its goals are to deliver cleaner growth across the supply chain, with a dramatic reduction in plastic waste entering the environment by 2025.
This competition will fund ambitious R&D projects with the potential to significantly impact the 2025 UK Plastic Pact targets and address widely known problems related to plastic packaging for consumer products.
Your project must primarily address one or more of the UK Plastics Pact targets.
The benefits of your new approach must be quantified in terms of the Pact targets and by comparison to the current system or dominant solutions.
Any environmental impacts must be described and justified.
Your project can focus on one or more of the following:
This list is not intended to be exhaustive; Innovate UK is particularly interested in ambitious projects.
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