Marks and Spencer P.L.C.

The ASIMOV project aims to revolutionise the adoption of Trusted AI technology for UK SMEs by providing automated sustainability reporting solutions. This project has the potential to disseminate Trusted and Responsible AI to the entire UK SME ecosystem, unlock hundreds of billions in sustainable finance, help us meet net zero, and drive best-in-class hum...

Food waste is an issue of global significance, affecting food security and environmental sustainability with about one third of all food produced, equivalent to 1.3 billion tonnes per annum, wasted in the food production and consumption systems. In the UK, approximately 15 million tonnes of food waste is created every year, with a value of over £6.7billio...

This is a pivotal time for UK fashion and textiles. It is essential that the sector strengthens its sustainable competitiveness, needing a fundamental change driven by industrial research and development. With the need to improve the impact of the sector on people and planet, the UK is competing on an international stage. But the prize for those who get t...

Beauty Kitchen, developed Return•Refill•Repeat (RRR), to pioneer change. By following B Corporation principles of people, planet, profit alongside Cradle2Cradle safe and circular design RRR is as a whole-system approach to break down the complex barriers to entering and scaling a circular reuse economy. We enable brands, retailers and consumers to change ...

Global population is expected to grow to 9.8Bn by 2050 with 7Bn of these people living in urban areas. Providing nutritious food for all in a resource and energy efficient manner is becoming increasingly challenging. Arable land to grow crops is becoming more scarce with a third of usable land lost in the last 40 years due to soil degradation (Grantham Ce...

Yield instability negatively impacts UK soft fruit growers, preventing accurate profit prediction and maximisation, causing volatility of UK supply. The problem is now well recognised within industry, though the causes of significant season to season yield variation are unknown. This proposal aims to identify the physiological and biochemical processes un...

In the Northern Hemisphere with damper conditions, Phytophthora root rot is causing a rapid decline in raspberry plantations grown in soil and also greatly decreasing the life span of production of raspberries grown in substrate with negative environmental consequenses. Plant based resistance is the only way forward and limited material exists that consis...

This project seeks to accelerate our Plan A commitments around reducing waste. The focus for this project will be to reduce the environmental impact of raw materials in M&S’ clothing supply chain. We will apply circular economy thinking to drive greater garment recovery and retained value. The outcomes of the project can be applied to textile and other in...

The FILMS project aims to improve the sealing of ready made meals, particularly chilld foods through the use of laser sealing technology. THis approach replaces existing heat sealing approaches and offers both greater flexibility and much lower energy costs. However, of more significance to the end customer is that the process will deliver more securely s...

Every year a portion of harvested fruit and vegetables do not reach the supermarket shelves as a result of wastage created by rigorous quality control testing or through incorrect classification during the process. The problem stems from the inability for a tester to observe the internal status of a fresh product without resorting to cutting and destroyin...

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