SORT-IT: Increase plastic food and drink packaging recycling rates for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and Deposit Return Schemes (DRS)

SORT-IT：提高塑料食品和饮料包装回收率，以实现生产者延伸责任 (EPR) 和押金返还计划 (DRS)

• 批准号: 85593
• 金额: $ 34.75万
• 依托单位: PRAGMATIC SEMICONDUCTOR LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=85593
• 关键词: SORT; Increase; plastic; food; drink

Food and Drink (F&D) packaging manufacturers struggle to secure enough high-quality affordable recyclate to meet statutory targets for recycled content, and mass re-use schemes are not feasible with existing technologies. Manufacturers who fail to reduce environmental impact face major financial penalties and delisting by buyers. The current F&D packaging supply-chain is well connected and tracked from feedstock to retailer outlets due to the need for food safety and stock control. However, beyond the retailer, the packaging supply-chain through the consumer, waste collection, recovery and recycling is very limited. Many challenges exist in separating recyclable, non-recyclables, compostables, and contaminates in F&D waste streams.This SORT-IT feasibility-study would analyse and evaluate the feasibility of digitalisation and intelligent automation in the F&D packaging supply-chain for waste-management through tagging technology to facilitate the tracking and sorting of packaging waste. Our vision is that, following later industrial-research, SORT-IT would increase the environmental and economic sustainability of the F&D packaging manufacturing supply-chain, by enabling transition to a circular economy, dramatically increasing recycling rates for food-grade plastics, and enabling packaging re-use. Implementing tagging technology should enable: • Increased rate of recycling and output of high-quality feedstock (including food-grade plastic) from waste. • Re-use. • Brand-owners to track packaging and recycling rates for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) • Low-cost Deposit Return Schemes (DRS) linked to consumer accounts through reverse vending machines and identification at materials recovery facilities (MRFs). • Greater consumer engagement with brands through transparency of green credentials. • Reduction of plastics going to landfill or entering land or aquatic environments. The research would build on the unique technology for the manufacture of low-cost electronics in very high-volumes (billions p.a.) by PragmatIC and link with the growing technologies of collaborative automation, Industry 4.0 and machine learning to tag and track packaging with unique identifiers. The tags would provide individual items with unique identifiers readable by RFID and NFC equipment, including smartphones; information would be exchanged via internet-enabled systems to cloud storage to facilitate supply-chain tracking and consumer engagement. This feasibility-study would be led by PragmatIC working with Sheffield University's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC-Cymru) guided by an Industrial Advisory Board. PragmatIC is a high-growth innovation-driven SME, headquartered in Cambridge, with a billion-unit production facility in Sedgefield, County Durham.

食品和饮料 (F&D) 包装制造商努力获得足够的高质量、经济实惠的回收材料，以满足回收成分的法定目标，而大规模再利用计划在现有技术下是不可行的。未能减少环境影响的制造商将面临重大的经济处罚和处罚。由于食品安全和库存控制的需要，当前的 F&D 包装供应链从原料到零售商都有良好的连接和跟踪，但是，除了零售商之外，包装供应链还通过消费者、废物收集、恢复和分离 F&D 废物流中的可回收物、不可回收物、可堆肥和污染物存在许多挑战。该 SORT-IT 可行性研究将分析和评估 F&D 包装供应链中数字化和智能自动化的可行性。通过标签技术进行废物管理，以促进包装废物的跟踪和分类。我们的愿景是，经过后来的工业研究，SORT-IT 将提高包装废物的环境和经济可持续性。 F&D 包装制造供应链通过实现向循环经济的转型、大幅提高食品级塑料的回收率以及实现包装的再利用，应能够： • 提高回收率和高质量原料的产量。 （包括食品级塑料） • 再利用 • 品牌所有者跟踪生产者延伸责任 (EPR) 的包装和回收率 • 通过反向链接与消费者账户关联的低成本押金返还计划 (DRS)。自动售货机和材料回收设施 (MRF) 的标识 • 通过绿色证书的透明度提高消费者对品牌的参与度。 • 减少进入垃圾填埋场或进入陆地或水生环境的塑料。 PragmatIC 生产大批量（每年数十亿）的低成本电子产品，并与不断发展的协作自动化、工业 4.0 和机器学习技术相结合，用唯一的标识符来标记和跟踪包装。具有可由 RFID 和 NFC 设备（包括智能手机）读取的唯一标识符；信息将通过支持互联网的系统交换到云存储，以促进供应链跟踪和消费者参与。这项可行性研究将由 PragmatIC 与谢菲尔德大学先进制造部门合作领导。研究中心 (AMRC-Cymru) 由工业顾问委员会指导，是一家高增长的创新驱动型中小企业，总部位于剑桥，在塞奇菲尔德拥有十亿台生产设施。达勒姆郡。