The next steps for commercial readiness: PlantSea Pods (a novel seaweed-based biodegradable material)

商业准备的下一步：PlantSea Pods（一种新型海藻基可生物降解材料）

• 批准号: 10072152
• 金额: $ 6.35万
• 依托单位: PLANTSEA LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10072152
• 关键词: next; steps; commercial; readiness; PlantSea

The current project aims to build on significant technical developments and research undertaken during the previous Young Innovators award to develop a sustainable and biodegradable packaging material for personal care products. This project will protect this innovation through patenting, investigate and optimise the product and it manufacturing at scale, and carry out essential testing, all to facilitate commercialisation and exploitation of PlantSea-Pack.PlantSea-Pack is a plastic-free soluble pod that dissolves in water, designed to encapsulate shampoo and personal care products. PlantSea-Pack fosters packaging re-use, by adopting the concept of a re-usable bottle-for-life and promoting the usage of refills of personal care goods (shampoo, conditioner, detergents) and other fluids (cleaning liquids), supporting the delivery of Plastic Pact targets.The product will deliver multiple objectives of the Plastic Pact:a) Provide a new non-plastic product design and investigate the feasibility and scalability of an associated business model to deliver personal care ingredients. This will enable the elimination of millions of non recyclable plastic parts, for example the spray pumps and caps, commonly found in bottles. This will decrease the volume of plastic waste components found in the environment. Contributing to target 1 of the UK plastic pact, which aims for 100% of plastic packaging to be re-usable, recyclable or compostable.b) Contribute to reducing the strain on recycling infrastructures, by eliminating complex packaging formats and helping to fulfil the recyclability of the remaining plastic packaging.c) Raise awareness and provide educational materials on possible approaches for plastic use reduction and re-use to achieve desired changes in consumer behaviour.d) Build a robust model for assessing sustainability and preventing substitution of plastics by less sustainable materials, using a complete life cycle and overall systems perspective.

当前的项目旨在以上届青年创新者奖期间进行的重大技术开发和研究为基础，为个人护理产品开发可持续且可生物降解的包装材料。该项目将通过申请专利来保护这一创新，研究和优化产品及其大规模制造，并进行必要的测试，所有这些都是为了促进 PlantSea-Pack 的商业化和开发。PlantSea-Pack 是一种无塑料可溶豆荚，可溶解在水，旨在封装洗发水和个人护理产品。 PlantSea-Pack 通过采用终生可重复使用瓶子的概念，促进个人护理用品（洗发水、护发素、清洁剂）和其他液体（清洁液）补充装的使用，促进包装重复利用，支持实现《塑料公约》目标。该产品将实现《塑料公约》的多个目标：a) 提供新的非塑料产品设计，并研究提供个人护理成分的相关商业模式的可行性和可扩展性。这将能够消除数百万个不可回收的塑料部件，例如瓶子中常见的喷雾泵和瓶盖。这将减少环境中塑料废物的数量。有助于实现英国塑料公约的目标 1，即 100% 的塑料包装可重复使用、可回收或可堆肥。b) 通过消除复杂的包装形式并帮助实现可回收性，有助于减轻回收基础设施的压力c) 提高认识并提供关于减少塑料使用和重复使用的可能方法的教育材料，以实现消费者行为的预期改变。d) 建立一个强大的模型来评估可持续性和防止塑料替代采用不太可持续的材料，使用完整的生命周期和整体系统的视角。