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

无包装系统：循环供应链解决方案的现实世界试验，用于扩展店内补充品

• 批准号: 10015299
• 金额: $ 408.84万
• 依托单位: UNPACKAGED SYSTEMS LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Demonstrator
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10015299
• 关键词: Unpackaged; Systems; real; world; trial

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.

一次性塑料包装现在已经牢牢地牢牢地留在公众的脑海中。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 SUPP 的替代一次性材料或改进收集和回收系统。虽然这些都是有价值的改进，但 Unpackaged 认为重点应该放在废物层次结构的顶部，即减少、再利用和重新填充包装，这将代表塑料从线性经济解决方案到循环经济解决方案的真正转变 包装。再填充（无论是在店内还是在家里）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的容器中。如果这一概念在主流超市推广，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 组建了一个由英国主要零售商、物流合作伙伴和行业领先的设备制造商组成的联盟，以设计优化的补充解决方案。该解决方案将通过多零售商、多站点、现场演示试验进行测试，考察从运营可行性到消费者参与和使用的各个方面。这将是英国和全球迄今为止最雄心勃勃的跨部门协作补充项目；以及竞争对手如何合作解决一次性塑料包装危机的示例。