Unpackaged Systems: A real world trial of a circular supply chain solution to scale refills for in-store & online retail

一次性塑料包装现在已经牢牢地印在公众的脑海中。虽然政府和行业已经开始寻找解决方案，但迄今为止，大多数创新都集中在轻量化，创造替代SUPP的一次性材料或改善收集和回收系统。虽然这些都是有价值的改进，但Unpackaged认为重点应该放在废物等级的顶部-即减少，包装的再利用和再填充-这将代表塑料包装从线性经济解决方案向循环经济解决方案的真正转变。（店内或家中）无需一次性塑料包装，因为产品直接分配到客户自己的可重复使用容器中。如果这一概念在主流超市中推广，将大大减少英国零售商投放市场的SUPP数量。在InnovateUK的支持下，Unpackaged已经组建了一个由英国主要零售商、物流合作伙伴和行业领先设备制造商组成的联盟，以设计优化的再填充解决方案。这一解决方案将通过多零售商、多地点、现场演示试用进行测试，从运营可行性到消费者参与和接受，这将是英国乃至全球迄今为止最雄心勃勃的跨行业合作再填充项目，也是竞争对手如何合作解决一次性塑料包装危机的一个范例。

Single-use plastic packaging is now firmly on the public's mind. Whilst government and industry have started to look for solutions, most innovation to date has focused on lightweighting, creating alternative single-use materials to SUPP or improving collection and recycling systems.While these are valuable improvements, Unpackaged believes the focus should be at the top of the waste hierarchy - i.e. the reduction, reuse and refilling of packaging - which would represent a true shift from a linear to a circular economy solution for plastic packaging.Refill (either in-store or at home) removes the need for single-use plastic packaging, as products are dispensed directly into customers' own reusable containers. If this concept were rolled out across mainstream supermarkets, it would dramatically reduce the amount of SUPP being placed on the market by UK retailers.With InnovateUK support, Unpackaged has assembled a Coalition of key UK retailers, a logistics partner and industry leading equipment manufacturers to design an optimised refill solution. This solution will be tested via a multi-retailer, multi-site, live Demonstrator Trial looking at everything from operational viability to consumer engagement and take-up.This will be the most ambitious collaborative cross-sector refill project to date, both in the UK and globally; and an example of how competitors can collaborate to solve the single-use plastic packaging crisis.