Sustainability charity WRAP and Innovate UK have launched a major new UK fund to reduce the impact of plastics on the environment in India, Chile, Kenya and South Africa.

The International Circular Plastics Flagship Projects competition is a £1.7 million fund designed to address the problem of plastics pollution in these key nations.

Applicants can apply for funding ranging from £50,000 to £250,000 that demonstrate solutions that respond to specific targets under the plastics pacts of each nation, and that will ultimately help reduce plastic pollution in:

• Asia
• Africa
• Latin America.

Four key themes

The funding focusses on four key themes:

• flexible film packs including small format
• reusable packaging and new business models
• collection, sorting, cleaning and recycling
• end market development.

WRAP, the UK based charity that has driven the development of plastics pacts in the UK and around the world, including those in the Ellen MacArthur Foundation Network of Pacts, will deliver the grant on behalf of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

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