UKCPN
UKCPN is an activity supported by KTN & UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) and exists to engage Britain’s best scientists and innovators to help move the country towards more circular economic and sustainable approaches to plastics.
We have a particular focus on Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging - a UKRI challenge which is a £60m fund with a team of experts supporting outcomes leading to a better solution to packaging materials and associated waste.
Latest News
Sally Beken Heralds Developments in Sustainability at Plastics Live
The Plastics Live exhibition and conference is a new annual event for the plastics sector in the UK and Ireland, taking place 5th - 6th July in Coventry. UKCPN's Dr. Sally Beken will be speaking at the event.
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UKCPN's Plastics Newsroom - Episode 7: 24th May 2022
Welcome to the seventh instalment of our new series of news updates from the UK Circular Plastics Network, entitled Plastics Newsroom.
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FlexCollect: Industry-led consortium announces UK’s biggest flexible plastic household collection and recycling pilot
The £2.9m Flexible Plastic Fund FlexCollect project is the most extensive pilot for household collection and recycling of flexible plastic packaging ever undertaken in the UK. It is supported by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
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Events
This free online event brings together regulatory, academic and industrial speakers to stimulate discussion on the challenges and opportunities for researchers, industry and government. There are two thematic sessions on consequences of the drive to recycle plastics. The first covers micro-plastics in the environment, their toxicology and associated risk assessment. The second explores the complex issue of the toxicological significance of chemical migration from recycled plastics in food contact materials.
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This is a stakeholder workshop to explore the challenge of plastic litter and littering to explore where research, innovation and investment could deliver positive change.
This free event will bring together stakeholders from academia, industry, regulatory, government and non-government organisations to discuss the current challenges surrounding plastic litter and littering and to identify what is needed to address this economic, environmental, and societal challenge.
The Plastics Live exhibition and conference is a new annual event for the plastics sector in the UK and Ireland, taking place 5th - 6th July in Coventry.
It will redefine the way business and networking is conducted for anyone who manufactures in plastics today. Plastics Live is scheduled to run in the UK in 2022 and 2023 and will then run in Ireland in 2024. Plastics Live will enable broad-based business opportunities with movers and shakers from all parts of the plastics-based industries.
UKCPN's Dr. Sally Beken will be speaking at the event.
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