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The upcoming funding InnovateUK opportunities are as follows: Fast start: innovation – Closes 26 July Design Foundations July 2022 – Closes 31 August Innovate UK Smart grants: Apr 2022 – Closes 27 July To view all future and past InnovateUK funding opportunities, visit the InnovateUK website. […]

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BBIA and several members joined the WRAP and DEFRA workshop in Birmingham on 16 June to discuss the market potential and challenges for the supplies of waste containers/bin/liners once the long-awaited reforms take effect in 2024. WRAP estimate that England will need some 17 million food waste caddies, some six million wheelie bins and (if they […]

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BBIA held its annual meeting on 17 May in London, beginning with an interview with Lord Deben, Chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, who underlined the importance of the work BBIA and its members do. All the presentations made at this event are available to download here. Our thanks to all the speakers, the […]

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BBIA and many members attended and spoke at the London Rethinking Materials event on 4-5 May. Interesting to see a whole new generation of young start-ups all producing compostable materials from novel feedstocks, including industrial food waste, seaweed, straw etc. Several investors spoke of how they are financing the growth of these nascent industries, a […]

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BBIA has responded to the Scottish Government’s consultation on littering, which closed on 31 March, calling upon the Government to prohibit the sale of plastics claiming generic ‘biodegradability’ that fail to meet the criteria of certified compostability under the standard EN13432. By allowing the sale of plastics that claim biodegradability – without measuring where and […]

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MP Derek Thomas asked a parliamentary question to DEFRA Minister Jo Churchill on what the department is intending to do about the pollution to soils of plastics, as outlined in the UNFAO report last year. She replied on 27 January 27: “DEFRA has commissioned an external expert organisation to look into plastic within digestate and […]

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REA’s Jenny Grant gave evidence in the Parliamentary enquiry into plastic waste, highlighting the enormous burden of plastic contamination for the organics recycling industry. More on her interview here. […]

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The Environment Agency has published the revised biowaste standard rules set in December. We quote from the communication sent by REA to its members. “They have added 10 new biowaste standard rules permits and generic risk assessments. They are SR2021 numbers 1 to 10 which are here. There are significant changes which the EA set […]

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BBIA member Versarien has secured £1.93 million in investment from a South Korean company, following support from Innovate UK EDGE and funding from Innovate UK. Versarien PLC became the world’s first verified graphene producer in 2019 and uses the extremely strong and highly versatile material to develop commercially viable products for sectors as diverse as […]

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BBIA member Fabbri Group has been featured in an article about Westaway Sausages, documenting the pair’s collaboration. As reported by Packaging World, Westaway partnered with Fabbri Group in April of 2020, replacing its cling film packaging with Fabbri’s Nature Fresh film – a three-layer blown coextrusion that is certified as compostable according to the UNI […]

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