Establishing UK based production via the development of automated production of a novel flushable and biodegradable sanitary towel

通过开发新型可冲散和可生物降解卫生巾的自动化生产，在英国建立生产基地

• 批准号: 78702
• 金额: $ 22.28万
• 依托单位: SYMBIOCO LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=78702
• 关键词: Establishing; UK; based; production; via

Polipop is a highly ambitious company focused on the development and production of the first certified flushable and biodegradable sanitary towel. This vital innovation removes the waste disposal burden in relevant toilets. Furthermore, it resolves the problem that around 30% of sanitary products are wrongly flushed down the toilet contributing to the problem of blocked sewers and plastic pollution in our wider ecosystem. Due to the pad being biodegradable they can be harmlessly flushed down the toilet and make a drastic impact on the billions of sanitary products sent to landfill or incineration every year. This innovative biodegradable sanitary towel does not yet have an established high volume production process so Polipop has started production of the new towel in India and Italy with manual production methods. This approach is not ideal for Polipop, the products have to be shipped all over the world and the Covid-19 pandemic has caused the company severe delays and production complications. The current manual production process also makes the pad expensive, the current pads costs 25 pence each to make which is too expensive for the market. The aim of this project is to enable Polipop to do the research and development necessary to automate the production of the pad and bring the production to the UK to drastically improve the carbon footprint of the business. Furthermore, by developing specialised high speed machines to produce the pad the team hopes to increase production speed by an order of 2, from 3 pads per minute to 300 pads per minute. This will drastically reduce the cost of the pad to less than 8 pence per unit. This project fits the The Sustainable Innovation Fund: round 1 competition because: * The business has been severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, this project enables the business to create new opportunities for the company and the UK economy as we recover from the pandemic.* The project makes a significant contribution to climate change and environmental sustainability, at present billions of sanitary products are shipped to waste processing facilities and either burnt or buried in landfill. This results in thousands of tonnes of plastic waste entering our ecosystem every year. This project enables a truly biodegradable approach to be taken that is entirely compatible with current sewage treatment infrastructure.* The project is directly beneficial to marginalised individuals that suffer from stigma, Polipop is targeted for women and incontinence related markets, users such as men and transgender individuals will benefit from improve discretion of a device that can be immediately flushed down the toilet.

Polipop是一家雄心勃勃的公司，专注于开发和生产首个经过认证的可冲洗且可生物降解的卫生毛巾。这项重要的创新消除了相关厕所中的废物处理负担。此外，它解决了一个问题，即大约30％的卫生产品被错误地冲入厕所，这导致了我们更广泛的生态系统中下水道和塑料污染的问题。由于垫子是可生物降解的，它们可能会无害地冲入厕所，并对每年发送给垃圾填埋场或焚化的数十亿种卫生产品产生巨大影响。这种创新的可生物降解的卫生毛巾尚未具有既定的大量生产过程，因此Polipop已通过手动生产方法开始生产印度和意大利的新毛巾。这种方法对于Polipop而言并不理想，必须在世界各地发货，而Covid-19的大流行使公司严重延迟和生产并发症。当前的手动生产过程也使垫子昂贵，当前的垫子的成本为25便士，这对市场来说太昂贵了。该项目的目的是使Polipop能够进行必要的研究和开发，以使PAD的生产自动化，并将生产带到英国，从而大大改善业务的碳足迹。此外，通过开发专门的高速机器来生产垫子，团队希望将生产速度提高2次，从每分钟3垫增加到每分钟300垫。这将大大降低垫子的成本至每单位不到8便士。该项目符合可持续创新基金：第一轮比赛是因为： *该业务受到了Covid-19的大流行的严重影响，该项目使该项目能够为公司和英国经济创造新的机会，因为我们从流行病中恢复过来。每年，这会导致成千上万吨的塑料废物进入我们的生态系统。该项目可以采用一种真正可生物降解的方法，该方法与当前的污水处理基础设施完全兼容。*该项目对受污名的边缘化个人有利，Polipop针对妇女和与失禁有关的市场，男性和跨性别者等用户将受益于待在的设备上的改善，这些设备可以立即被送入ardush sarruph the Maryet。