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Perpetual Plastic for Food to Go (PPFTG)

外带食品永久塑料 (PPFTG)

基本信息

批准号：
NE/V01076X/1
负责人：
Garrath Wilson
金额：
$ 116.85万
依托单位：
Loughborough University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FV01076X%2F1
关键词：
Perpetual Plastic Food Go PPFTG

项目摘要

This innovative multi-disciplinary project will develop, prototype, and evaluate a novel circular business model that combines smart-technology enabled products and services to reduce the environmental, societal, and economic impact of Food-to-go packaging.Food-to-go (FTG), fresh and chilled foods such as sandwiches and prepared salads sold by food retailers for consumption out of the home, is a growing UK market driven by the rise in convenience lifestyles. The FTG industry at present yields a significant amount of single-use packaging waste which is detrimental to our planet, but also represents substantial resource value loss. Driven by traditional business models that operate on a 'take-make-dispose' economic system, efforts to transform the FTG industry to a more circular economic system (the Circular Economy (CE)), one in which plastic packaging is no longer single-use and resource value is retained within a loop, have been limited. This is partly due to the lack of historic cooperation across the supply chain to define and address the problem; the complexity of transitioning multiple industry and consumer stakeholders to a new circular approach; and the lack of understanding of consumer behaviour.Recognising that no one single approach will overcome the identified problems, we bring together academics with expertise in sustainable design, sustainable manufacturing, and polymer chemistry with project partners that represent the interests of all operators and stages within the FTG supply chain; from manufacturer through to retailer. Together, we will use a combined approach of novel smart technologies and quality assurance methods, in-depth understanding and modelling of consumer behaviour, and comprehensive supply chain value assessment to propose a novel future FTG Circular Product-Service System (CPSS).Specifically, the project will: (i) develop and validate novel combinations of 'track and trace' smart sensors, tracking, end of life detection technologies, and robust quality control systems to support the design and development of new FTG CPSS concepts that could maximise the lifetime of plastic packaging, enhance resource management, and reduce premature waste disposal; (ii) define how 'value' is prioritised, moved, and maintained within existing FTG supply chains so to develop new tools and methods for determining the necessary supply-side value movements and flows within new FTG CPSS concepts; (iii) seek to understand current consumer behaviours with existing FTG packaging in order to propose new tools and methods that enable and evaluate meaningful behaviour change towards less resource intense and environmentally destructive demand-side action; (iv) take a structured co-design approach that partners academic research with industry experience to create, based on the findings above, and evaluate, through live proof-of-concept prototype trials, a novel FTG CPSS that will improve the environmental, societal, and economic impact of FTG packaging.The project will be as far as possible 'open source' through academic publication, industry networking, and a vibrant digital social media presence to help foster the UK and international transition to CE, disseminating and translating project outputs to both academia and industry. Outputs will include: Track and trace, cleaning, and detection technology concepts with feasibility/stability studies and design implications; supply chain value indicators and datasets, resource and value flow models, and evaluation tools; consumer behaviour baseline dataset and modelling tools, with personas and scenarios of use; and a novel FTG CPSS concept with validated proof-of-concept packaging prototypes, and business/service modelling and blueprints. We will also produce a toolkit for policymakers which will synthesise the generated tools, methods, and case study examples to both underline and reinforce our impact and the national importance of our findings.

这个创新的多学科项目将开发、原型化和评估一种新的循环商业模式，该模式结合了智能技术支持的产品和服务，以减少食品外带包装对环境、社会和经济的影响。外卖食品（food -to-go， FTG）是食品零售商销售的供外出食用的新鲜和冷藏食品，如三明治和预制沙拉。受便利生活方式的兴起推动，外卖食品（FTG）是英国一个不断增长的市场。目前，光纤传输行业产生了大量的一次性包装废物，这对我们的地球是有害的，但也代表了大量的资源价值损失。在“取-制-弃”经济体系的传统商业模式的推动下，将光纤传输行业转变为更循环的经济体系（循环经济（CE））的努力受到了限制，在循环经济中，塑料包装不再是一次性的，资源价值在循环中得到保留。这在一定程度上是由于在整个供应链中缺乏合作来定义和解决问题；将多个行业和消费者利益相关者转变为新的循环方法的复杂性；以及对消费者行为缺乏了解。认识到没有单一的方法能够克服所确定的问题，我们将具有可持续设计，可持续制造和聚合物化学专业知识的学者与代表FTG供应链中所有运营商和阶段利益的项目合作伙伴聚集在一起；从制造商到零售商。我们将共同采用新颖的智能技术和质量保证方法，深入了解和模拟消费者行为，以及全面的供应链价值评估相结合的方法，提出一种新的未来FTG循环产品服务系统（CPSS）。具体而言，该项目将：(i)开发和验证“跟踪和跟踪”智能传感器、跟踪、寿命终止检测技术和强大的质量控制系统的新组合，以支持新的FTG CPSS概念的设计和开发，这些概念可以最大限度地延长塑料包装的使用寿命，加强资源管理，并减少过早的废物处置；（ii）定义“价值”如何在现有FTG供应链中被优先考虑、移动和保持，以便开发新的工具和方法，以确定新的FTG CPSS概念中必要的供应方价值移动和流动；（iii）设法了解目前消费者对现有光纤包装的行为，以便提出新的工具和方法，能够和评估有意义的行为改变，以减少资源密集和对环境破坏的需求方行动；（iv）采用结构化的协同设计方法，将学术研究与行业经验结合起来，在上述发现的基础上创建，并通过现场概念验证原型试验评估一种新的FTG CPSS，该CPSS将改善FTG包装的环境、社会和经济影响。该项目将尽可能通过学术出版物、行业网络和充满活力的数字社交媒体的存在来“开源”，以帮助促进英国和国际向CE的过渡，向学术界和工业界传播和翻译项目成果。产出将包括：跟踪和追踪、清洁和检测技术概念，以及可行性/稳定性研究和设计影响；供应链价值指标和数据集、资源和价值流模型以及评估工具；消费者行为基线数据集和建模工具，包括人物角色和使用场景；以及新颖的FTG CPSS概念，包括经过验证的概念验证包装原型、业务/服务建模和蓝图。我们还将为政策制定者制作一个工具包，该工具包将综合生成的工具、方法和案例研究示例，以强调和加强我们的影响和我们的研究结果的国家重要性。