Feasibility Studies to implement the Circular Economy model in large retail food cabinets.

食品零售业是环境资源的大消费者。该项目的重点是在英国主要超市和食品商店部署的大型冰箱，冷冻机和冷藏柜。研究表明，零售制冷展示设备的生命周期短（3-9年），设备回收所需的时间最少。在英国9000多家超市部署的80万个食品展示柜中，只有不到13%被回收。该项目将支持一些基于科学的可行性研究，这些研究将调查这些产品的完整制造生命周期，以就如何同时减少材料的使用和增加再利用提出明确的建议，从而最大限度地减少浪费。简而言之，目标是与这些产品的英国领先供应商实施循环经济模式。

The retail food sector is a large consumer of environmental resources. This project is focused on large fridges, freezers and cold cabinets deployed in the major UK supermarkets and food stores.Research shows that the life cycle of retail refrigeration display equipment is short (3-9 years) and minimal equipment recycling takes. Of the 800,000 food display cabinets deployed in over 9000 supermarkets in the UK, less than 13% are recycled. This project is to support a number of scientifically based feasibility studies which will investigate the complete manufacturing life cycle of these products to make clear recommendations on how to concurrently reduce the use of material and increase re-use and thus to minimise waste. In short, the aim is to implement the circular economy model with a leading UK supplier of these products.