Green Packaging: Sustainable concepts

Sulapac is a very sustainable patented packaging material, made of renewable natural wood chips from sustainably managed forests and other biodegradable biomaterials. In spite of its plastic- like properties it contains no plastic. The Niki Newd’s Soap Case is made from sustainable Sulapac material. The premium eco-packaging soap case was developed to support the Niki Newd brand image as an eco-luxury brand.

www.sulapac.com

The Frosch folding lid, which is made of 100% post-consumer recycled plastic, qualified in this year’s German Packaging Award in the category New Material. The product developers from The Green Dot – Duales System Deutschland have produced a polypropylene re-granulate from household packaging waste that meets the high requirements for fliptop closures both in the injection moulding process as well as in their application. The competition entry was submitted by Werner & Mertz, Heinz Plastics, Böhm, the Green Dot – Duales System Deutschland and Clariant Plastics & Coatings.

www.packagingaward.de

The raw material of Seufert’s PET film, is partly produced from sugarcane. About 30% of Bio-PET is of vegetable origin. Bio-sourced PET may be transformed into transparent packaging and then recycled in the same way as standard PET. The benefits include a reduced consumption of fossil resources, the same recycling chain as for conventional PET, a more interesting price than other bio-based materials and easy integration into sustainability programmes of customers. Bio-based PET can be transformed into transparent packaging solutions in the same way as the usual PET films. The company manages offset and screen printing, cutting, stamping and gluing in-house.

www.seufert.com

Neopac’s Picea is a recyclable sustainable wooden tube. Now there is even more renewable material in the tube body and shoulder. The spruce wood comes from Germany and the food grade tube surface is easy to print.

www.hoffmann-neopac.com

From over 100 entries for Ecovia’s Sustainable Beauty Awards, which recognise organisations pushing the boundaries of sustainability in the beauty industry, a winner and runner-up were selected for each award category. In the Green Packaging category the winner is Sulapac with its packaging made from renewable wood chips taken from sustainable managed forests, as well as other biodegradable materials. Hair O’ Right was the runner-up with its novel packaging for its hair care range. The plastic bottles, whose carbon footprint is about 75% lower than that of conventional bottles, is made from packaging waste. Finalists in this award category were Biolage RAW of L’Oréal and O-PAC Eco-Pac.

www.sustainablebeautyawards.com