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，但对有限资源的使用、废物的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负责任的消费和生产和14。以及各国政府实施一次性塑料减量目标（例如，英国塑料公约》承诺100%的塑料包装可重复使用、可回收或可堆肥。在2019冠状病毒病大流行之前，可重复使用的包装，咖啡店的杯子计划，越来越受欢迎。然而，卫生/疾病传播的问题限制了使用（例如，星巴克（2020年3月），因为食品零售商和其他人重新使用一次性塑料来帮助对抗病毒;新冠肺炎对向可持续塑料包装的过渡是一个巨大的打击。我们的目标是创造一种创新的，可重复使用的塑料包装，涂有经过验证的抗菌涂层，可以在10秒内杀死病毒/细菌。即使经过多次重复使用的洗涤周期，它也能有效地清洁表面。项目负责人CodiKoat将利用其专利的抗菌涂料，这些涂料已经被证明和开发用于个人防护设备，以涂覆适合在活动/场地和一般食品供应链中使用的塑料食品盒。CodiKoat将与合作者Recup合作，Recup是活动部门可重复使用杯子的供应商，负责设计和测试盒子。我们还将发展物流，例如，集中清洗和质量保证、商业模式和影响案例（例如，通过在可重复使用的食品包装中加入抗微生物功能，我们为消费者/零售商提供了防止疾病从接触点传播的再保证。人们对食品污染导致其他微生物生长的担忧得到了缓解，卫生的表面还应该降低在使用之间清洁盒子所需的温度，从而降低碳足迹。我们将首先为历史上产生大量废物的活动/场地开发我们的商业模式，并着眼于其他食品供应链，例如，在线交付、外卖，交付/收集物流可以得到控制，并得到零排放运输的支持，一旦得到证明。

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.