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Packaging waste, climate change and other environmental problems demand an urgent and coherent response from the CPG industry. All too often innovations are marketed as ‘green’ based on gains in a single metric, when the complex landscape of ecological challenges requires a holistic approach. Packaging Europe’s fourth annual Sustainability Awards is here to make the connections.

The WPO WorldStar-recognised competition categories encourage a joined-up view of the tasks facing us. The all-star judging panel brings together stakeholders from the whole value chain. And in celebrating achievements in early-stage R&D, packaging innovation and cross-industry collaboration, we’ll be stimulating debate and cross-fertilisation of ideas – culminating in the Sustainability Awards ceremony at Scanpack, Northern Europe’s leading packaging event.

Sustainable Packaging Summit

Preceding the Sustainability Awards presentation, Packaging Europe will be curating and hosting a high-level Sustainable Packaging Summit from 13:00 on 23 October at Scanpack. The summit will focus on one of the key environmental dilemmas for consumer packaged goods: how do we develop resource-efficient packaging with minimal carbon footprint and product waste at the same time as eliminating unrecycled packaging waste? Leading players in this endeavour, including Gian De Belder (P&G’s principal scientist – packaging R&D), Philippe Diercxsen (packaging and environment manager at Danone Waters) and Ian Schofield (own label and packaging manager at Iceland – the supermarket that has pledged to eliminate plastic packaging) will share their contrasting approaches, and then come together for a panel discussion. Immediately after the Sustainable Packaging Summit, visitors can enjoy drinks, nibbles and the announcement of the winners of the Sustainability Awards.