All Sustainability Awards articles – Page 7
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ArticleFinalist interview: Turning fallen leaves into paper with Releaf Paper
Releaf Paper has developed a process for turning cellulose fibres derived from fallen leaves into paper packaging products, such as carrier bags. We spoke to the company about developing the technology and being shortlisted in the ‘Renewable Materials’ category of the Sustainability Awards 2022.
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ArticleFinalist interview: AB InBev and partners’ low carbon aluminium can
Shortlisted for the ‘Climate’ category of the Sustainability Awards 2022, AB InBev, RUSAL, CANPACK and ELVAL’s low carbon aluminium beer can is made with 100% renewable electricity and uses an inert anode technology that allows for reduced emissions. AB InBev tells us more about the collaborative solution.
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ArticleFinalist interview: Berlin Packaging’s carbon neutral wine bottle
Berlin Packaging’s Aurelia is a carbon neutral wine bottle produced using renewable energy sources, with an offsetting programme for the remaining CO2 emissions. We caught up with the company about being shortlisted in the ‘Climate’ category of our 2022 Sustainability Awards.
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ArticleFinalist interview: Aptar’s monomaterial Future pump
We caught up with Aptar to learn more about its recyclable, monomaterial Future pump, which is a finalist in the E-commerce category of our 2022 Sustainability Awards.
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ArticleFinalist interview: the Paboco Paper Bottle
Paboco’s Paper Bottle, featuring a paper outer shell with a thin plastic barrier inside, has been trialled by companies including Carlsberg, Coca-Cola, and Absolut. We spoke to Paboco about being finalists in the ‘Renewable Materials’ category of our 2022 Sustainability Awards.
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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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ArticlePackaging 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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ArticleAnnouncing 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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ArticleNEXTLOOPP 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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ArticleInside 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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ArticlePackaging 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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ArticleSustainability 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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ArticleCatching 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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ArticleZeLoop: 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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ArticleCMC 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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PodcastSustainability 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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ArticleWillemijn 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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ArticleNEXTLOOPP 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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PodcastSustainability 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.