Nikki Clark

0000-0003-2027-7237

Researcher Co-Investigator

Loughborough University

Nikki worked for ten years within the UK food packaging supply chain in Design and Marketing managerial roles. Throughout Nikki’s time in industry, she championed innovation to reduce the environmental impact of packaging. In 2017 Nikki started a full time PhD at Loughborough University recently completing her thesis which focussed on consumer behaviour, the UK Food to Go packaging supply chain, and a transition to a Circular Economy. Nikki is part of the Loughborough University team which was awarded around £1m in 2020 as part of the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge funded by UKRI, to help tackle waste plastic in the UK. The Perpetual Plastic for Food to Go project will develop, prototype, and evaluate a novel circular business model that combines smart-technology enabled products and services, and consumer behaviour insights to reduce the environmental, societal, and economic impact of food to go packaging.

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Clark. N, Trimingham. R.L, Wilson. G.T (2020) Incorporating consumer insights into the UK food packaging supply chain in the transition to a Circular Economy, Sustainability 2020,12, 6106; DOI:10.3390/su12156106
Clark. N, Trimingham. R.L, Wilson. G.T (2019) Understanding consumer disposal behaviour with food to go packaging in a move to circular, zero waste packaging solutions, PLATE 2019
Clark. N, Trimingham. R.L, Storer. I (2019) Understanding the views of the UK food packaging supply chain in order to support a move to Circular Economy systems, Packaging Technology and Science, DOI: 10.1002/pts.2474
Understanding the views of the UK food packaging supply chain in order to support a move to circular economy systems
Incorporating Consumer Insights into the UK Food Packaging Supply Chain in the Transition to a Circular Economy
A remote ethnography methodology to gain packaging behaviour insights
Perpetual Plastic for Food to Go: A Design‐led Approach to Polymer Research
Perpetual plastic for food to go: a design‐led approach to polymer research
Towards Making Polymer Food Packaging Suitable for the Circular Economy: Cleanliness is Next to Godliness

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Garrath Wilson

Lecturer in Industrial Design - Loughborough, UK

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Ryan Larder

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