How can innovation in chemical production, use, and disposal across the supply chain minimise chemical-related risks, benefiting the circular economy and reducing pollution?

Related UKRI funded projects

• INSIGHT: Integrated Models for the Development and Assessment of High Impact Chemicals and Materials

  Safe and sustainable by design (SSbD) chemicals and materials are crucial to address the challenges of modern society. However, lack of stakeholders’ coordination, limited accessto relevant data, and absence ofstandardis...

  Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

  Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

  Why might this be relevant?

  The project focuses on developing an innovative framework for mechanistic impact assessment of chemicals/materials, aligning with the question's goal of minimizing chemical-related risks.

• UKRI Interdisciplinary Centre for Circular Chemical Economy

  The UK chemical sector has an annual turnover of over £32 billion with 99,000 direct jobs in 2016. The Centre's vision is to transform the UK's chemical industry into a fossil-independent, climate-positive and envi...

  Funded by: SPF

  Lead research organisation: University of Surrey

  Why might this be relevant?

  The project aims to transform the UK's chemical industry into a circular chemical economy, which aligns with the goal of minimizing chemical-related risks and reducing pollution in the supply chain.

• PINK - Provision of Integrated Computational Approaches for Addressing New Markets Goals for the Introduction of Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design Chemicals and Materials

  Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design materials and chemicals (AdMas&Chems) are a central requirement for reaching the ambitious goal of making Europe the first digitally-enabled circular, climate-neutral and sustainable ec...

  Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

  Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

  Why might this be relevant?

  The project aims to provide integrated computational approaches for developing safe-and-sustainable-by-design chemicals and materials, directly addressing the question's objective of minimizing chemical-related risks.

• GreenX3: Innovative and sustainable materials, processes and technologies for a GREENer and circular economy

  GreenX3 is a multidisciplinary and innovative project designed to use chemical tools to address current global environmental challenges. The research objectives will focus on: i) the study of greener materials including ...

  Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

  Lead research organisation: Queen Mary University of London

  Why might this be relevant?

  The project focuses on using chemical tools to address environmental challenges and promote sustainable development, aligning with the goals of minimizing chemical-related risks and benefiting the circular economy.

• The InteRnatIonal ecosystem for accelerating the transition to Safe-and-Sustainable-by-design materials, products and processes

  The IRISS project aims to connect, synergize and transform the SSbD community in Europe and globally towards a life cycle thinking where there is a holistic integration of safety, climate neutrality, circularity and func...

  Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

  Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

  Why might this be relevant?

  The project is relevant because it aims to develop a state-of-the-art ecosystem that supports the uptake and utilization of safe-by-design and sustainable-by-design strategies by industry, which aligns with the question's focus on minimizing chemical-related risks and promoting a circular economy.

• Cleaner Futures (Next-Generation Sustainable Materials for Consumer Products).

  Unilever has a longstanding strategic partnership with the University of Liverpool. To date, the focus has been on cocreating shared scientific capability. Over £100M has been co-invested since 2006 to drive knowle...

  Funded by: EPSRC

  Lead research organisation: University of Liverpool

  Why might this be relevant?

  The project focuses on achieving Net-Zero by developing sustainable consumer product materials, which partially addresses the goal of minimizing chemical-related risks and reducing pollution in the supply chain.

• HydRegen: a sustainable chemistry platform

  We have developed sustainable technologies that address unmet needs in the chemicals sector through academic research at the University of Oxford. Chemicals companies are interested in our technologies because they remov...

  Funded by: Innovate UK

  Lead research organisation: HYDREGEN

• TV OSR: Tees Valley sustainable Olefins Strategic Roadmap

  Olefins are the core platform chemicals within the chemical industry and the focus on the Centre for Circular Chemical Economy (CCCE). Olefins are widely used as raw materials in the manufacture of chemical and polymer p...

  Funded by: Innovate UK

  Lead research organisation: THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND PROCESS INDUSTRY CLUSTER LIMITED

• SUNRISE: Safe and sUstainable by desigN: IntegRated approaches for Impact aSsessment of advanced matErials

  SUNRISE will develop an overarching Integrated Impact Assessment Framework (IIAF) designed to support SSbD decision making along lifecycle stages and value chains of advanced materials (AdMa) and their products. The IIAF...

  Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

  Lead research organisation: INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE

• Safe and Sustainable by Design framework for the next generation of Chemicals and Materials

  SSbD4ChEM brings together stakeholders from industry, government, academia, and civil society to develop and promote best practices for safe and sustainable product and process design, through demonstration in 3 case stu...

  Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

  Lead research organisation: LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY