University of Cambridge awarded funding with RECAP

19 December 2019

The RECAP Waste Partnership are delighted to announce that they are taking part in a project with the University of Cambridge. The RECAP Partnership which consists of all the Cambridgeshire District and City Councils, Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council will work alongside this project to help deliver tangible benefits from the research.

The University of Cambridge's Centre for Circular Economy Approaches to Eliminate Plastic Waste is oneof eight new research projects exploring ways of making, using and recycling plastics which have been announced by the Science Minister, Chris Skidmore, on 18 December 2018. The projects are part of the government's Industrial Strategy and will commence from January 2019. The Centre will act as anucleus for a global network of partners and coordinate a range of Cambridge-based research projects to tackle contemporary challenges from the manufacturing of more sustainable materials to driving innovations in plastic recycling. This 18-month award will lead the development of a sustainable plastics economy by understanding the local and global distributions of plastics, innovate alternatives to plastics and develop novel technologies for the utilisation of waste plastics.

For further information about the project, visit the University of Cambridge website.