Codibox. Reusable, hygienic plastic food containers for events, festivals and home deliveries.

一次性塑料包装虽然在全球食品/饮料供应链中使用，但对有限的资源使用、废物产生和污染产生了重大影响。英国每年使用500万吨塑料(英国政府，2021年)。迫切需要与国际组织(例如，联合国可持续发展目标12)共同解决塑料使用问题。负责任的消费和生产，14.英国塑料公约“承诺100%的塑料包装是可重复使用、可回收或可堆肥的。在新冠肺炎大流行之前，可重复使用的包装，如咖啡店的杯子方案，正变得越来越受欢迎。然而，随着食品零售商和其他公司重新使用一次性塑料来帮助抗击病毒，卫生/疾病问题蔓延到了有限的使用范围(例如，星巴克2020年3月)；新冠肺炎是向可持续塑料包装过渡的巨大打击。我们的目标是创造一种创新的、可重复使用的塑料包装，它上面覆盖着经过验证的抗微生物涂层，可以在10秒内消灭病毒/细菌。即使在大量重复使用洗涤周期后，它也对表面有效。项目负责人CodiKoat将利用他们获得专利的抗微生物涂层，这些涂层已经被证明和开发用于个人防护设备，以覆盖适合在活动/场馆和一般食品供应链中使用的塑料食品盒。CodiKoat将与活动部门可重复使用杯子供应商Collaborator Recup合作设计和测试盒子。我们还将为一个可以重复使用50次而不需要重新涂层的盒子(Codibox)开发物流，例如集中清洗和质量保证、商业模式和影响案例(例如碳排放、资源使用)。通过构建可重复使用的食品包装的抗微生物功能，我们为消费者/零售商创造了防止疾病从接触点传播的再保证。减少了对食品污染引起的其他微生物生长的担忧，卫生表面也应该降低使用之间清洁盒子所需的温度，从而也减少了碳足迹。我们将首先为历史上产生大量废物的活动/场馆发展我们的商业模式，以期在其他食品供应链中发展我们的商业模式，例如在线送货、外卖，一旦证实，送货/收集物流可以通过零排放运输进行控制和支持。

Single use plastic packaging, whilst used throughout global food/drink supply chains, has had a major impact on finite resource use, waste generation and pollution. Five million tonnes of plastic are used in the UK each year (UK Government, 2021). There is an urgent need to address plastics use, with international organisations (e.g., UN Sustainable Development Goals 12\. Responsible Consumption and Production and 14\. Life Below Water) and national governments implementing targets for single use plastics reduction (e.g., UK Plastics Pact and implementation of a plastic tax on non-recycled materials in 2022).The UK Plastics Pact commits to 100% of plastic packaging being reusable, recyclable or compostable. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, re-usable packaging e.g., coffee shop cup schemes, were gaining in popularity. However, issues with hygiene/disease spread limited use (e.g., Starbucks March 2020) as food retailers and others moved back to single use plastics to help combat the virus; Covid-19 was a massive blow for the transition to sustainable plastic packaging.We aim to create an innovative, reusable plastic packaging that is coated with a proven anti-microbial coating that destroys viruses/bacteria within 10 seconds. It is effective on surfaces even after extensive re-use washing cycles. Project lead CodiKoat will utilise their patented anti-microbial coatings which have already been proven and developed for use on personal protective equipment to coat a plastic food box suitable for use at events/venues and within general food supply chains. CodiKoat will work with collaborator Recup, a supplier of reusable cups to the events sector, to design and test boxes. We will also develop the logistics e.g., centralised washing and quality assurance, business model and impact case (e.g., carbon emissions, resource use) for a box (Codibox) that can be re-used \>50 times with no re-coating required.By building in anti-microbial functionality to re-useable food packaging we create re-assurance for consumers/retailers against disease spread from touch points. Concerns over related to the growth of other microbes from food contamination are allayed, and the hygienic surface should also reduce the temperatures needed to clean the boxes between uses, thus also lowering carbon footprint. We will initially develop our business model for events/venues which have historically created large amounts of waste, with the view to other food supply chains e.g., online deliveries, takeaways where delivery/collection logistics can be controlled and supported by zero emissions transport, once proven.