NOFO: Collecting Flexible Plastic Packaging Waste at Home in the UK

Deadline: 12-Apr-23

UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £250,000 to develop innovative ideas that help with the collection of flexible packaging waste from households.

The aim of this competition is to fund projects that will develop innovative ideas to help with the collection of flexible plastic packaging waste from households. The ultimate goal being the reduction of the amount of waste ending up in landfill or in the environment.

Your project must:

• Develop an idea and propose a design for containing or collecting household flexible plastic packaging waste that is easy to store in the home and easy to carry or transport
• Encourage householders to collect flexible plastic packaging waste as a separate waste stream for kerbside collection or for transporting to collection points in supermarkets

Funding Information

• They have allocated up to £250,000 to fund innovation projects in this competition.
• You can request 100% funding for your eligible project costs up to a maximum of £50,000.

Projects

Your project must:

• Have a grant funding request between £25,000 and £50,000.
• Start by 1 September 2023.
• End by 29 February 2024.
• Last between 3 and 6 months.
• Carry out its project work in the UK.
• Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK.

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead organisation
  • To apply your organisation must be:
    • A UK registered business of any size
    • Charity
    • Not for profit
• 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 also provide a detailed rationale, evidence of the potential UK contractors you approached and the reasons why they were unable to work with you.
    • They expect all subcontractor costs to be justified and appropriate to the total eligible project costs. They will not accept a cheaper cost as a sufficient reason to use an overseas subcontractor.
• Number of applications
  • You can only apply into this competition with 1 application. They will only award grant funding to 1 project per business or organisation.

For more information, visit Innovate UK.