Unilever U.K. Central Resources Limited

Today only 4% of the surfactant market share consists out of compounds that are 100% based on biomass (fully bio-based surfactants or biosurfactants), while there is an urgent need for non-hazardous Safe and Sustainable By Design (SSbD) biosurfactants (BSs). The biosurfactant market is expected to grow at a CAGR of between 5.2 and 10.5% between 2022 and 2...

To accelerate the development and optimisation of sustainable packaging materials from renewable feedstocks.

To move the home care products industry to more resource efficient and sustainable products, a major programme of new ingredient discovery and replacement is required. In SimPol we will specifically target the replacement of petrochemical-derived acrylate rheology control polymers with renewable polymers for use in laundry detergents. Polymer and formulat...

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Surfactants are chemicals with both hydrophilic (water loving) and hydrophobic (water hating) regions, which makes them extremely useful for mixing oils and water, stabilising foams and removing dirt from surfaces and laundry. As a result, surfactants are used across a broad array of industrial sectors and products, including laundry detergents and cleani...

Currently the recycling of films is greatly held back by the absence of a technology that can decontaminate post consumer polyolefin (LDPE, LLDPE,HDPE,PP) films back to food-grade and create high value end-markets for these recycled plastics back into films which is critical to boosting the recycling rate of films. The vision of this project is to fill th...

This collaborative project led by Veolia, will result in the development and demonstration of the UK's first dual PET bottle and tray recycling facility capable of recycling 100% of clear rigid PET in a closed loop system. In line with the UK plastics pact, the project and resultant facility will achieve the following innovations: * The piloting of the fi...

Plastic is a material with many beneficial applications; global plastic production reached 388Mt in 2017 and is expected to surpass 1Bt by 2050\. Presently 45% of new plastics are used in short life cycle, single use applications (McKinsey) and just 12% of end-of-life plastic is recycled. Recycling rates are forecast not to exceed 60% by 2050\. At current...

Soil degradation is 'one of the most pressing problems facing humanity' and disproportionately impacts smallholder farmers in developing countries (FAO, 2015). Due to cost and accessibility barriers, these farmers lack access to effective tools to combat this threat. Sireet, a smallholder tea cooperative in Kenya exemplifies this problem - 57% of their fa...

Surfactants are chemicals with both hydrophilic (water loving) and hydrophobic (water hating) regions, which makes them extremely useful for mixing oils and water, stabilising foams and removing dirt from surfaces and laundry. As a result, surfactants are used across a broad array of industrial sectors and products, including laundry detergents and cleani...

To develop techniques for lowering sugars and fats in structural baked products.

To develop techniques for lowering sugars and fats in ice cream toppings.