Deadline: 24-Mar-21
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £16 million from the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Programme to support projects that demonstrate innovation at a commercial scale.
The aim of this competition is to support business-led projects that demonstrate innovation at commercial scale to address problems in relation to plastic packaging for consumer products.
They aim to fund a portfolio of projects addressing the four UK Plastics Pact targets, across a variety of:
- technologies
- markets
Your project must demonstrate a holistic approach, including the likely environmental impacts to:
- humans
- wildlife and
- the broader environment
Your project must demonstrate an idea at commercial scale which:
- improves the sustainability of the plastic packaging supply chain
- helps deliver the targets of the UK Plastics Pact
- utilises innovation in design, technology, processes, business models, supply chains or data for plastic packaging
- embeds a whole-systems approach to plastic packaging sustainability, considering environmental, economic, and social factors
Themes
They are particularly interested in projects which address the UK Plastic Pact targets by demonstrating at scale:
- minimised or reduced plastic packaging
- refillable packaging and systems
- sustainable solutions for film and flexibles
- food grade recycled polypropylene and polyethylene
- behaviour change leading to less packaging waste or higher recycling rates
- solutions for problematic or unnecessary single use plastic packaging items
Funding Information
Innovate UK wants to fund large-scale commercial demonstration projects. You must request a grant of no less than £1 million and no more than £12 million for your project, subject to subsidy control.
Eligibility Criteria
Lead organisation
- To lead a project your organisation must:
- be a UK registered business of any size
- collaborate with other UK registered business, , academic institution, charity, not-for-profit, public sector organisation or research and technology organisation (RTO)
- carry out its project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- Academic institutions cannot lead a project.
Project team
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must:
- be a UK registered business, academic institution, charity, not-for-profit, public sector organisation or research and technology organisation (RTO)
- carry out its project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- The lead and at least one other organisation must claim funding by entering their costs during the application.
For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/817/overview