This opportunity aims to fund interdisciplinary research to support a more sustainable overall plastics system and a move towards a circular plastics economy through developments in:
Plastics are an essential material within advanced societies. However, their extraction and production can have damaging impacts. Their low cost has led to a culture of disposal following limited use and their durability can be problematic at the end of their use-life.
Aligning to UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) strategic theme of ‘building a greener future’ and the UK’s Net Zero Research and Innovation Framework, EPSRC and BBSRC are looking to support research into delivering a circular economy for plastics, and harness the significant positive economic and environmental impacts it will enable.
This opportunity will directly deliver against EPSRC’s Engineering Net Zero priority ambitions to collaborate across UKRI to deliver whole systems approaches and solutions to:
SOURCE: Innovate UK
SECTOR: Plastics
VALUE: Up to £1.75m
FUNDING TYPE: Grant
OPEN DATE: 06/07/2022
CLOSE DATE: 15/09/2022