Interest in sustainable innovation and sustainable products is growing every year. We also observe that after the adoption of the Paris agreements, the participants are not going to stop at the achieved results and continue their struggle for a sustainable future of the planet. Many businesses and organizations offer their own options for solving problems associated with more demanding regulators and buyers. In this article, we want to acquaint you with the most significant of them according to our version for 2020.
Replenishment using water
The first representative of our list was not introduced in 2020, but already in 2019 number of well-established companies as SC Johnson, Unilever and Procter&Gamble successfully created and introduced concentrate ranges. Even it holds a straightforward concept of mixing concentrate products with water in reusable bottles, it is a very powerful sustainable innovation that enabled to exclude water transportation costs in company supply chains. Newcomers as Replenish and ThreeMain joining the battle for customer attention by providing a more stylish design, with the latter, going further and going further on cutting plastic usage with an aid of aluminum bottles.
“Clever little bag” by Puma
Initiative to reduce excess waste related to shoe packaging, transportation, and disposal. The company highlights that by changing the traditional box to “Clever little bag” design they were able to reduce water and fuel consumption by 60 percent and paper material usage by 65 percent. In addition to it, Puma is developing another sustainable innovation a fully degradable “Clever Little Shopper” bag.
Botta Packaging Eco-Packaging Product Range
Italian corrugated cardboard producer specializing in sustainable innovation and sustainable packaging paper-based solutions presented a whole range of sustainable products such as Eco-sleeves, Eco-net, Eco-document wallet, Eco-mailer reinforced, Eco-transparent paper bag, and Eco-safety seal. The range is specially designed and presented to satisfy all packaging needs so that companies can find a one-stop-shop consultancy solution to fully exclude plastic materials from their packaging, thus contributing to their sustainable development goals.
Packsize perfect boxes
Automatic packaging line measures and packages products in the smallest possible package. Though this sustainable innovation packaging material waste is minimized, and transportation efficiency is improved. Cost efficiency and productivity are yet to be improved though.
Tapeless cardboard
BoxLatch creates reusable latches that eliminate the use of tape and increases the likelihood of particular box recycling because of the absence of tape that adds extra removing process before recycling can start.
Plantable packaging
Another step further in sustainable innovation is introduced by Pangea Organics and Seeds of Change. Plantable packaging contains seeds in the packaging and is 100% recyclable.
Snap packing
Carlsberg approached the issue of changing 6 pack beer ring sustainable innovation by totally removing them and changing to recyclable glue that holds cans together. It reduces plastic use by 76% and is believed to save 1200 tons of plastic every year.
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