Perpetual plastic for food to go: a design-led approach to polymer research
Perpetual plastic for food to go: a design-led approach to polymer research
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用于食品的永久塑料：以设计为主导的聚合物研究方法
DOI：
10.1002/pi.6401
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Wilson G
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作者：
Wilson G
越来越多的人意识到人类活动是气候危机的罪魁祸首。聚合物在这一叙述中的作用并不总是明确的，但对于从事线性经济系统的行业来说，总是需要新的塑料生产，以及随之而来的相关地球成本，以满足需求。这是英国食品行业的一个特殊问题，因为一次性塑料包装在保持包装内容物的完整性方面起着至关重要的作用。在循环经济中，在回收之前会有多个塑料再利用的闭环循环，这为英国食品行业的转型提供了一个有希望的方向，但也存在一些障碍。这篇透视文章介绍了一种以设计为主导的聚合物研究方法，强调了可以帮助克服这些障碍的三个优势：框架创建作为一种将复杂问题合成到新研究方向的方法；通过脚本材料特征改变消费者行为的潜力；以及作为知识生成和转移促进者的多学科工作。文章最后介绍了永久塑料食品项目，这是一个以设计为主导的研究项目，将聚合物化学与可持续制造和设计相结合，以减少英国食品塑料包装的影响。©2022作者。《聚合物国际》由John Wiley & Sons Ltd代表工业化学学会出版。
There is both an increasing awareness and concern that human activity is responsible for the climate crisis. The role of polymers within this narrative is not always clear, but by industries engaging in linear economic systems there will always be a need for new plastic production, and the associated planetary cost that comes with it, to meet demand. This is a particular issue for the UK Food to Go industry where single‐use plastic packaging plays a vital role in maintaining the integrity of the packaged contents. The circular economy, in which there would be multiple closed‐loop cycles of plastic reuse before recycling, offers a promising direction but there are several barriers to the UK Food to Go industry's transition. This perspective article introduces a design‐led approach to polymer research, highlighting three advantages that could help to overcome these barriers: frame creation as a way for synthesising complex issues towards novel research directions; the potential for changing consumer behaviour through scripted material characteristics; and multidisciplinary working as a facilitator of knowledge generation and transfer. The article concludes with an introduction to the Perpetual Plastic for Food to Go project, a design‐led research project that combines polymer chemistry with sustainable manufacturing and design to reduce the impact of UK Food to Go plastic packaging. © 2022 The Authors.Polymer Internationalpublished by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Industrial Chemistry.