Global competition for sustainable packaging innovation, the Sustainability Awards, is accepting submissions from January 25 to March 24, 2021, and is once again seeking the most significant and impactful initiatives in this space from around the world.
This year’s edition, which will culminate at the Sustainable Packaging Summit on September 29 at FachPack in Nuremberg, Germany, will add a new ‘E-Commerce’ category, which will focus on the best sustainable innovations in this space.
“We have observed the growing importance of the e-commerce channel over a number of years, and with it, the emergence of new packaging sustainability challenges to meet the demands of a fundamentally different supply-chain,” said TimSykes, Packaging Europe brand director.
“Since the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve seen this trend accelerate exponentially, elevating e-commerce to the top of the agenda and making demand for environmentally beneficial innovation for this channel all the more urgent.
“We therefore believe now is the right time to shine a Sustainability Awards spotlight on this topic.”
The full list of categories for the 2021 event open for submission is:
- Bio-Based Packaging;
- Resource Efficiency;
- Driving the Circular Economy;
- Recyclable Packaging;
- Machinery;
- Best Practice;
- Pre-Commercialised Innovation;
- E-Commerce.
In addition, an overall winner will be chosen as ‘Best Sustainable Packaging Innovation’ from among the commercialised packaging innovations that emerge as winners of the other categories.
This year will also see the return of the Readers’ Award, parallel to the main competition, nominated and voted for by the international readership of Packaging Europe.
Another development for this year’s event is that, in response to demand, the maximum number of submissions per organisation has been raised from three to five entries.
For more information, visit the Sustainability Awards website here.
