All Sustainability Awards articles – Page 3
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Vote in our 2022 Readers’ Award
The nomination period for Packaging Europe’s 2022 Readers’ Award has ended, and now it’s time for you to select the winner!
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ArticleFinalist interview: Nivea’s reusable bottle for hand soap made from dissolvable tablets
Nivea’s ecorefill is a soap with a difference – the consumer creates it themselves by mixing dissolvable tablets with water, in a bottle made from 100% recycled material. To learn more about this innovation, which is a finalist in the ‘Driving the Circular Economy’ category of our 2022 Sustainability Awards, we spoke with Nivea’s parent company, Beiersdorf.
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Packaging Europe’s Readers’ Award 2022 is open for submissions!
We’re excited to reveal that our coveted Readers’ Award will be returning this year as part of our Sustainability Awards 2022!
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Announcing the Sustainability Awards 2022 finalists!
After weeks of careful deliberation, our expert jury has revealed the finalists of the 2022 Sustainability Awards. Click here to learn more about the innovations that will be competing for the top prizes.
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NEXTLOOPP interview: Polymer innovation and circularity
Victoria Hattersley caught up with Ed Kosior, CEO of Nextek, to discuss ongoing polymer innovation and the opportunities this presents for packaging design and circularity.
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Inside NEXTLOOPP’s quest to close the loop on food-grade recycled PP
Global multi-participant project NEXTLOOPP, the overall winner of our 2021 Sustainability Awards, continues to gain momentum in its quest to close the loop on food-grade recycled polypropylene (FgrPP). Schur Flexibles, a leading European supplier of specialised flexible packaging solutions, has become the 39th organisation to join the ...
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Packaging Europe’s 2022 Sustainability Awards opens for submissions!
The most serious, rigorous and prestigious international competition for sustainability in packaging is back for another year.
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Sustainability Awards 2021 winners secure WorldStar recognition
The World Packaging Organisation (WPO) has revealed the winners of WorldStar 2022, for which packages are eligible to enter if they have already received a national or regional award such as Packaging Europe’s Sustainability Awards.
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Catching up with the winner of the 2021 Sustainability Awards
Nextek’s NEXTLOOPP project, which creates food-grade packaging from recycled polypropylene, was crowned the overall winner at our 2021 Sustainability Awards. We caught up with Edward Kosior, Nextek’s CEO, to learn more about the project’s potential.
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ZeLoop: an app using blockchain tokens to reward recycling
The Readers’ Award finalist app ZeLoop is using cryptocurrency to incentivize consumers to recycle.
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CMC secures Amazon Climate Pledge investment
CMC Machinery announced yesterday that Amazon has made a minority investment in the company through its Climate Pledge Fund, which provides funding to companies developing sustainable and decarbonising technologies.
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Sustainability Perspectives: Flexible packaging for healthcare
In the latest edition of our Sustainability Perspectives podcast series, Noemi Bertolino, VP for R&D EMEA at Amcor Flexibles, talks to Tim Sykes about sustainable flexible packaging solutions for the healthcare market.
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Willemijn Peeters on building a business to prevent ocean plastics
For Willemijn Peeters, tackling ocean plastics became her entire work’s mission in 2016 when she started Searious Business with the aim of using upstream innovation to prevent new plastics from entering the ocean.
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NEXTLOOPP unveils results of tracer-based sorting trials
NEXTLOOP, the PP recycling project led by Nextek Limited, has announced that its trial to sort food-grade plastic packaging waste using a label marker achieved 99.9% sorting purity at maximum production speed.
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Sustainability Perspectives: Inks and coatings in a circular economy
Inks and coatings are an integral part of packaging, and can pose challenges and also be part of the solution when it comes to sustainability and circularity. We speak with Siegwerk’s Alina Marm to find out more.
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Sustainability Awards 2021 winners revealed
Last night, the winners of our Sustainability Awards 2021 were announced at FachPack!
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Finalist Interview: atma.io by Avery Dennison
Ahead of the Sustainability Awards 2021 winners being announced later today, we speak with finalist Avery Dennison about their connected product cloud, atma.io.
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Finalist interview: Nivea Naturally Good body lotion
On the day before the big day, we speak to Beiersdorf, a Resource Efficiency finalist, and find out about the Nivea Naturally Good body lotion packaged in a bottle that is made from 50% less plastic and is rollable.
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Finalist Interview: Fibers365
In the latest of our interviews with the finalists of the Sustainability Awards 2021, we speak to Fibers365 about their SteamFiber technology for the production of cellulose pulp from biomass sources such as local farming.
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What to expect at FACHPACK 2021
FACHPACK returns after a two-year break, with the European trade fair for packaging, processes, and technology running live from the 28th to the 30th of September 2021 at the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg, Germany.
