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Smart sustainable plastic packaging

https://www.ukri.org/what-we-do/browse-our-areas-of-investment-and-support/smart-sustainable-plastic-packaging/

The Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging challenge aims to deliver a dramatic reduction in plastic waste entering the environment by 2025.

Innovate UKNERC

SSPP: liquid food and beverages in refillable packaging

https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/sspp-liquid-food-and-beverages-in-refillable-packaging/

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1.5 million for innovative projects as part of the smart sustainable plastic packaging (SSPP) challenge. This is to demonstrate a reuse or refill packaging system for liquid food and beverage products, at scale in a retail chain.

Funding opportunity Closed

Innovate UK

Enabling research in smart sustainable plastic packaging (SSPP)

https://www.ukri.org/what-we-do/browse-our-areas-of-investment-and-support/enabling-research-in-smart-sustainable-plastic-packaging-sspp/

Aims to establish the UK as a leading innovator in smart and sustainable plastic packaging for consumer products, significantly reducing waste by 2025.

NERC

UKRI challenge reveals impact on plastic packaging sustainability

https://www.ukri.org/news/ukri-challenge-reveals-impact-on-plastic-packaging-sustainability/

UKRI’s Smart Sustainable Packaging (SSPP) Challenge, has revealed new data on its sizeable impact on UK plastic packaging sustainability and circularity.

News 2 April 2025

Ella’s Kitchen leads organic baby food revolution

https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/how-we-are-doing/research-outcomes-and-impact/innovate-uk/ellas-kitchen-leads-organic-baby-food-revolution/

Ella’s Kitchen has developed a range of organic food for babies and toddlers. With the help of Innovate UK the company has transformed the market in the UK and globally. Company founder Paul Lindley describes the inspiration behind Ella’s Kitchen: “I was doing my weekly shop and I just couldn’t find anything that didn’t have […]

Innovate UK

Strengthening the resilience of the UK food system

https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/strengthening-the-resilience-of-the-uk-food-system/

Apply for funding to strengthen the resilience of the UK food system.

Funding opportunity Closed

BBSRCAHRCESRCEPSRCInnovate UKNERCSTFC

£17.4m funding for Better Food for All

https://www.ukri.org/news/17-4m-funding-for-better-food-for-all/

Cutting edge projects receive funding for innovations to improve nutrition.

News 11 October 2023

Innovate UK

Reducing waste in the food chain

https://www.ukri.org/what-we-do/browse-our-areas-of-investment-and-support/reducing-waste-in-the-food-chain/

This priority addresses issues of food waste through increased efficiencies or interventions to prevent wastage, and looks at alternative uses for food waste.

BBSRC

The plastics paradox

https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/how-we-are-doing/research-outcomes-and-impact/the-plastics-paradox/

Plastics are essential to everyday life but the way we use them is unsustainable. UKRI-supported researchers and innovators are on the case. An estimated eight million tonnes of plastic waste enter the world’s oceans each year; and discarded plastics contaminate vital ecosystems and threaten the food chains we rely on. Conversely, we also depend upon […]

BBSRCEPSRCESRCInnovate UKNERCResearch EnglandSTFC

How to go greener this festive season

https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/how-we-are-doing/research-outcomes-and-impact/how-to-go-greener-this-festive-season/

Many of us trying to live a greener lifestyle come unstuck during the festive season, a time when our diets go out the window and our wallets take a hit. So much so, it’s estimated Britons will spend £25.6 billion on presents alone this Christmas. The consequences of our generosity? A mountain of binbags, overflowing […]