The UK Government is making its ‘biggest ever’ intervention to advance the sustainability of plastic packaging by opening its ‘largest scale’ grants to researchers and innovators across the country.
UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) is launching its Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenge programme, in a move the government said aims to establish the UK as a ‘leading innovator in sustainable plastic packaging’ for consumer products, delivering ‘cleaner growth’ across the supply chain.
SSPP will invest £60 million until 2025, with the funded projects attracting up to £149 million of co-investment from industrial partners.
The aim is to support projects that will help dramatically reduce the amount of plastic waste entering the environment by 2025.
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