UK: SSPP Future Plastic Packaging Solutions (Round 2)

Deadline: 9-Nov-22

UK registered businesses and organisations can apply for a share of up to £2.5 million for early-stage and mid-stage projects in smart and sustainable plastic packaging.

This funding is from the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenge which 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.

Aims

Your project must aim to:

• Help make the plastics packaging supply chain more circular
• Deliver the objectives of the UK Plastics Pact, creating a circular economy for plastics, keeping them in the economy and out of the natural environment
• Embed life cycle thinking and end of life in packaging design and decisions

Specific Themes

Your project can focus on one or more of the following:

• The prevention, mitigation or measurement of plastic packaging litter polluting the environment
• Facilitating and scaling the adoption of reuse, refill and prefill packaging systems
• Chemical recycling approaches for PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) packaging

Funding Information

Your project’s total grant funding request must be between £30,000 and £250,000.

Eligibility Criteria

Your project must:

• Start by 1 April 2023
• End by 31 March 2025
• Last up to 24 months
• Carry out all of its project work in the UK
• Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
• Lead organisation
  • To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:
    • Be a UK registered business of any size
    • A research and technology organisation (RTO)
    • Charity, not for profit or public sector organisation
    • If the lead organisation is an RTO it must collaborate with 2 businesses (one SME, and one business of any size).
    • Academic institutions cannot lead or work alone.
• Project team
  • To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
    • Business of any size
    • Academic institution
    • Charity
    • Not for profit
    • Public sector organisation
    • Research and technology organisation (RTO)
    • Each partner organisation must be invited into the Innovation Funding Service by the lead to collaborate on a project. Once accepted, partners will be asked to login or to create an account and enter their own project costs into the Innovation Funding Service.
    • The lead and at least one other organisation must claim funding by entering their costs during the application.
    • Your project can include partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, for example non-UK businesses. Their costs will count towards the total project costs.
• Subcontractors
  • Subcontractors are allowed in this competition.
  • Subcontractors can be from anywhere in the UK and you must select them through your usual procurement process.
  • You can use subcontractors from overseas but must make the case in your application as to why you could not use suppliers from the UK.
  • You must provide a detailed rationale, evidence of the potential UK contractors you approached and the reasons why they were unable to work with you. They will not accept a cheaper cost as a sufficient reason to use an overseas subcontractor.
  • All subcontractor costs must be justified and appropriate to the total project costs.

For more information, visit Innovate UK.

For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1285/overview/30fab724-cc5e-4dca-8874-1c559629168f