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SCI-RSC 19 JUNE 2019  - The use and mis-use of plastics has attracted considerable attention. The UK government has already pledged to work to reduce waste plastic. The Chancellor Philip Hammond announced a £20m fund in the 2018 Spring Budget to help businesses and universities to develop new technologies to help achieve the target of eliminating 'avoidable plastic waste' by 2042. There will be upcoming funding calls, as well as a need to review the whole area to reduce, replace and refine the use of plastics. This conference brings together key sectors with the aim of focusing on assessing challenges and opportunities for researchers, industry and government. There will be a thematic link between the uses of plastics, their replacement with other materials, where it is advantageous, the toxicological hazards and benefits of plastic use, and the post-use challenges and opportunities.

Knowledge Transfer Network is pleased to announce the formation of the UK Circular Plastics Network (UKCPN), an activity supported by UK Research & Innovation (UKRI). The aim of UKCPN is to bring together the diverse users of plastic products and realise the best outcomes for eliminating plastic waste through a programme of networking and knowledge-sharing events and related support activities.

The Circular Plastics Network will create a coordinated, integrated and aligned community of stakeholders in order to share best practice, focused on unlocking the most critical, short term barriers to plastics circularity.

UKCPN will facilitate the following:

· Eliminating the volume of plastic waste arising from within the UK.

· Raising awareness and sharing best practice to improve the rate of UK plastic recycling.

· Sharing best practice to reduce levels of confusion amongst citizens and highlighting user-centred design.

· Showcasing innovation that is focused on reducing the amount of plastic ending up in the environment.

UKCPN is an activity supported by UK Research and Innovation, and forms part of the Plastics Research Innovation Fund (PRIF), which is engaging Britain’s best scientists and innovators to help move the country towards more circular economic and sustainable approaches to plastics.

The launch of UKCPN will bring to light the current situation regarding plastics and work to improve the country’s relationship with plastic and towards reducing plastic waste. This two-year programme brings together those with solutions to the problem and facilitates circular supply chain engagement with those solutions. More than 12 events will be undertaken throughout the UK over the next two years, while there will also be a website for the community to interact with one another (launching in early 2019). As well as this, a directory of companies relevant to this sector will be produced and encompassed in a larger landscape map accessible to all of the UK Circular Plastic members. Membership of the UK Circular Plastics Network is free and will allow you free attendance at any of the scheduled events in the Network up until December 2020.

The UK Circular Plastics Network (UKCPN) aims to bring together the diverse users of plastic products and realise the best means for reducing plastic waste entering the environment through a programme of networking and knowledge-sharing events and related support activities.

The Circular Plastics Network will create a coordinated, integrated and aligned community of stakeholders in order to share best practice, focused on unlocking the most critical, short term barriers to plastics circularity.

UKCPN will facilitate the following:

1. Eliminating the volume of plastic waste arising from within the UK.

2. Raising awareness and sharing best practice to improve the rate of UK plastic recycling.

3. Sharing best practice to reduce levels of confusion amongst citizens and highlighting user-centred design.

4. Showcasing innovation that is focused on reducing the amount of plastic ending up in the environment.

UKCPN is an activity supported by UK Research and Innovation, and forms part of the Plastics Research Innovation Fund (PRIF), which is engaging Britain’s best scientists and innovators to help move the country towards more circular economic and sustainable approaches to plastics.

The launch of UKCPN will bring to light the current situation regarding plastics and work to improve the country’s relationship with plastic and towards reducing plastic waste. This two-year programme brings together those with solutions to the problem and facilitates circular supply chain engagement with those solutions. More than 12 events will be undertaken throughout the UK over the next two years, while there will also be a website for the community to interact with one another (launching in early 2019). As well as this, a directory of companies relevant to this sector will be produced and encompassed in a larger landscape map accessible to all of the UK Circular Plastic members.

UKCPN has signed up as an engagement partner of the UK Plastics Pact.

Upcoming Events in Plastics:

Wed 3rd Apr – Thu 11th Apr: Plastics Recycling Show, Amsterdam

Wed 22nd May – Sat 25th May: Plastpol Kielce, Poland

Tue 11th Jun – Wed 12th Jun: Plastics Design & Moulding, Manchester

Wed 19th Jun: SCI – Plastics from Cradle to Grave, London


Click here to register to become a member of UKCPN

Membership of the UK Circular Plastics Network is free and will allow you free attendance at any of the scheduled events in the Network up until December 2020 (subject to availability). Please indicate on registration if you wish for your organisation to be listed on The Plastics Landscape Map (coming soon – an interactive tool for discovering companies working in the circular plastics space, innovations in progress, sector reports and more). Please also indicate whether you wish to keep up to date with news on UKCPN through its dedicated newsletter.

SCI and RSC are organising a conference on challenges and opportunities in plastics on 19th June 2019 in London.

The use and mis-use of plastics has attracted considerable attention. The UK government has already pledged to work to reduce waste plastic. The Chancellor Philip Hammond announced a £20m fund in the spring budget to help businesses and universities to develop “new technologies” to help achieve the target of eliminating “avoidable plastic waste” by 2042. There will be upcoming funding calls as well as a need to review the whole area to reduce, replace and refine the use of plastics.

This conference, organised by SCI’s Environment, Health, Safety and Food Group and RSC’s Environmental Chemistry, Toxicology and Food Chemistry Groups brings together key sectors with the aim of focussing on assessing challenges and opportunities for researchers, industry and government. There will be a thematic link between the uses of plastics, their replacement with other materials, where it is advantageous, the toxicological hazards and benefits of plastic use and the post-use challenges and opportunities.

KTN’s polymers expert Dr Sally Beken will be speaking at this event, and KTN’s Professor Bryan Hanley is on the event’s organising committee.


Call for posters

Opportunities are available for a limited number of posters. Interested applicants should send an abstract of one A4 page or 300 words maximum, indicating title and authors, to conferences@soci.org by Friday 10 May 2019 with the subject line “SCI-RSC Plastics, from Cradle to Grave and Resurrection – Poster Abstract”. Selected poster presenters will be given the opportunity to give a 3-minute presentation. Prizes will be given for the best poster and presentation.

Exhibition and Sponsorship opportunities

An exhibition will take place alongside the conference during refreshment breaks for companies and related organisations who may wish to exhibit. For further information and prices, please email conferences@soci.org. Spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Programme

The programme currently includes:

Theme 1 – Plastics – Use and abuse

The use and abuse of plastics – Peter Maddox, WRAP
PVC in healthcare – Ruth Stringer, Healthcare without harm
Plastics, packaging and politics – Margaret Bates, University of Northampton

Theme 2 – Challenges for plastics

Why the waste hierarchy does not work for plastics – Peter Reineck, Peter Reineck Associates Limited
Safety of plastics and environmental challenges – Martin Rose, University of Manchester

Theme 3 – Post-use challenges

Disposal of plastics. Biological removal – John McGeehan, University of Portsmouth
Challenges in consumer packaging recycling – Richard McKinley, AXION

Theme 4 – What has been done and what are next steps

Innovate UK and other government initiatives – Sally Beken, KTN

Discussion of afternoon presentations

A series of short presentations/pitches for researchers and companies (3 minutes each) to explain needs, opportunities and technologies.

Summary and potential next steps and discussion
Find out more and register

Plastics, from Cradle to Grave and Resurrection is taking place at SCI in London on Wednesday 19th June 2019.

To register for this event, please contact conferences@soci.org or call +44(0) 207 598 1561.

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LINKS & REFERENCE

https://www.ukri.org/news/science-minister-announces-20-million-plastics-research-and-innovation-fund-to-turn-the-tide-on-plastics-production/

https://www.soci.org/events/scirsc-plastics-from-cradle-to-grave-and-resurrection

https://ktn-uk.co.uk/news/plastics-from-cradle-to-grave-and-resurrection

https://ktn-uk.co.uk/news/ktn-presents-the-uk-circular-plastics-network

https://ktn-uk.co.uk/programmes/uk-circular-plastics-network

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