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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank our colleagues who made a significant contribution to the project and authored this report, particularly Laura Brownlee, Shraddha Kaur, Abby Reid and Hugh O’Reilly at RSM.

We also thank our advisor, Dr Samuel Short, for his valuable direction and guidance at each stage of the project. He provided quality assurance for the literature search strategy, overall methodology and peer-review of the draft and final report to ensure that any information about alternatives to single-use plastics was as accurate and robust as possible.

We would also like to thank Rachel Posaner from Knowledge Evidence Services at University of Birmingham for conducting the literature search for this project.

We would also like to thank the Food Standards Agency team for their support and guidance throughout the project, particularly Greg Wasinski, Marfot Miah and Anis Dadou. 

Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to the panel of experts (listed in Appendix E) who supported the development of the research questions, provided feedback on our search strategy, shared key sources of information and engaged in productive and reflective discussions on the findings and what they mean for the FSA.