Perpetual Plastic for Food to Go (PPFTG)

这个创新的多学科项目将开发、原型设计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，以减少食品包装对环境、社会和经济的影响。食品零售商出售的新鲜和冷藏食品，如三明治和沙拉，供家庭外消费，是一个不断增长的英国市场，受到便利生活方式的推动。目前，FTG行业产生大量一次性包装废物，这对我们的地球有害，但也代表了大量的资源价值损失。在传统商业模式“取-制-弃”经济体系的驱动下，复星旅文行业向更循环的经济体系（即循环经济（CE））转型的努力有限，在循环经济体系中，塑料包装不再是一次性使用，资源价值保留在循环中。这部分是由于整个供应链缺乏历史性的合作来界定和解决问题;将多个行业和消费者利益攸关方转变为新的循环方法的复杂性;以及缺乏对消费者行为的了解。认识到没有一种单一的方法可以克服所发现的问题，我们汇集了在可持续设计，可持续制造，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合作，从制造商到零售商。我们将结合新的智能技术和质量保证方法、对消费者行为的深入理解和建模以及全面的供应链价值评估，提出未来复星旅文循环产品服务系统（CPSS）。具体而言，该项目将：（i）开发和验证“跟踪和追踪”智能传感器、跟踪、寿命终止探测技术的新组合，以及强大的质量控制系统，以支持设计和开发新的FTG CPSS概念，从而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）定义如何在现有FTG供应链中优先考虑、移动和维护“价值”，以便开发新的工具和方法，以确定新FTG CPSS概念中必要的供应方价值变动和流动;（iii）设法了解目前消费者对现有FTG包装的行为，以便提出新的工具和方法，使消费者的行为发生有意义的变化，并对这种变化进行评估，以减少资源密集型和环境破坏性的需求方行动;（iv）采取结构化的共同设计方法，将学术研究与行业经验结合起来，根据上述研究结果进行创建，并进行评估，通过现场概念验证原型试验，一种新的FTG CPSS，将改善FTG包装的环境，社会和经济影响。该项目将通过学术出版物，行业网络，以及充满活力的数字社交媒体，以帮助促进英国和国际向CE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，包括可行性/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，以及业务/服务建模和蓝图。我们还将为政策制定者制作一个工具包，该工具包将综合所生成的工具，方法和案例研究实例，以强调和加强我们的影响力和我们发现的国家重要性。

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.