<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns2:project xmlns:ns1="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api" xmlns:ns2="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project" xmlns:ns3="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/fund" xmlns:ns4="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/person" xmlns:ns5="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project/outcome" xmlns:ns6="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/organisation" ns1:created="2026-07-08T08:44:08Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/projects/8DEE3C5B-A266-41EA-A717-A3A7B73E49A3" ns1:id="8DEE3C5B-A266-41EA-A717-A3A7B73E49A3"><ns1:links><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/persons/76B69FF3-CB66-47E3-BD3A-96E3F5252AD6" ns1:rel="PM_PER"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/2684882A-A87E-4CE5-AAC0-A398D0CC4425" ns1:rel="LEAD_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/2684882A-A87E-4CE5-AAC0-A398D0CC4425" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:end="2024-07-30T23:00:00Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/funds/92C7FC83-F101-4C38-A060-94A2C2B5FE67" ns1:rel="FUND" ns1:start="2023-03-31T23:00:00Z"/></ns1:links><ns2:identifiers><ns2:identifier ns2:type="RCUK">10060809</ns2:identifier></ns2:identifiers><ns2:title>Pilot sustainable and reusable IoT-enabled takeaway food container, process and infrastructure</ns2:title><ns2:status>Closed</ns2:status><ns2:grantCategory>Collaborative R&amp;D</ns2:grantCategory><ns2:leadFunder>ISCF</ns2:leadFunder><ns2:abstractText>Cupclub Ltd (trading as CLUBZER&amp;Oslash;) was founded in 2015 by award-winning architect and designer and environmental thought leader Safia Qureshi in London. CLUBZER&amp;Oslash; 's patented circular economy &amp;quot;Sustainable-Packaging-as-a-Service&amp;quot; delivers, collects, washes, and returns IoT-enabled (digital ID) food and beverage containers to businesses and consumers at the same price as the disposable incumbent but with half the CO2 emissions. CLUBZER&amp;Oslash;'s vision is a world without single-use packaging.

With this project CLUBZER&amp;Oslash; wants to expand its solution to tackle the &amp;quot;planetary plastic crisis&amp;quot; (UN, 2018) by addressing food containers in a wide variety of sizes and use-cases.</ns2:abstractText></ns2:project>