Deadline: 8-Sep-21
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £7 million for R&D projects with the potential to significantly impact the 2025 UK Plastic Pact targets. This funding is from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
The smart sustainable plastic packaging (SSPP) challenge will establish the UK as a leader in smart sustainable packaging and support a reduction in waste entering the environment.
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.
This competition is funded by the ISCF Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Fund (SSPP), the Challenge Director reserves the right to make the final decision on whether a project will receive funding.
The challenge aims to:
- tackle the environmental impact of plastic packaging through the development of a more sustainable plastic packaging supply chain in the UK
- drive research and innovation to develop more sustainable plastic packaging materials and designs, and enable new recycling processes and infrastructure
- encourage collaboration and innovation in integrated circular supply chains using insights into consumer behaviour to reduce the environmental impacts of plastic packaging.
Funding Information
- This competition will award grants from £200,000 to £4 million per project.
Specific Themes
Your project can focus on one or more of the following:
- the minimising or reduction of plastic packaging
- packaging suitable for reuse, refill and online delivery
- sustainable solutions for film and flexibles
- food grade recycled polypropylene and polyethylene
- behaviour change leading to less packaging waste or higher recycling rates
- solutions which address the UK Plastics Pact target for problematic or unnecessary single use plastic packaging items
Eligibility Criteria
Your project must:
- claim a grant between £200,000 and £4 million
- start in early 2022
- end by 31 March 2025
- last between 12 and 36 months
Lead organisation
- To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:
- be a UK registered business of any size
- carry out its project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must:
- be a UK registered business, academic institution, charity, not-for-profit, public sector organisation, research 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
For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/934/overview#summary