Boox Box

A Circular Economy Box and Shipping Service – Boox Boxes were created with circular economy in mind. Due to its mono material design and no need of tape, Boox can be reshipped numerous times before being fully recycled back to a new shipping box. In preventing the use of one time use cardboard, the tough and waterproof boxes can be personally designed,[...]

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Hazel Breatheway® & Hazel 100™

No Hassle Freshness Solutions – Hazel Technologies offers two easy to use solutions in the fight against food waste: Hazel Breatheway® is a next-gen Modified Atmospher Packaging (MAP) product, that keeps fruit and vegetable in higher quality and resiliency during transit. Breatheway® customizes its crop-specific temperature switch membranes to match the permeability (or permeation rate) with the unique respiration[...]

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beworm

Friendly Worms Breaking Down Plastic Naturally – beworm is engaged in crafting a recycling method aimed at breaking down plastic waste into its raw components. By extracting plastic-degrading bacteria from their bee worms, they are focusing on breaking down polyethylene (PE), the most widely utilized plastic. The enzymes generated by these bacteria hold the promise of breaking plastics into fundamental chemicals,[...]

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The Last Box

Shipping Without the Carton – The Last Box brings to the shipping industry reusable shipping packages, eliminating the need for standard corrugated single use cardboard packaging. The Durable boxes that ship full one-way, can be seamlessly collapsed and nested for efficient reverse shipments and storage. They can be customized by dimensions, shipping label placement, color, and branding to meet[...]

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Paper Tear Tape

Recyclable Packaging Tape – Tear tape is an adhesive strip on packaging for easy opening, often made of non-recyclable plastic like polypropylene. This plastic strip poses recycling challenges when used on paper-based packaging, as it needs to be separated before recycling. To reduce the use of polymer-based tapes, tesa has developed a new tear tape solution that can[...]

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Coffee Ball

Coffee Capsule System Without the Capsules – CoffeeB offers a home coffee capsule system that leaves no packaging waste behind. Made with fairtrade and certified organic beans, CoffeeB’s Coffee Balls are pressed and sealed with a natural protective layer, after the beans have been freshly roasted and grounded. The coffee system design utilizes the ball shape to produce quality coffee, leaving[...]

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The Udder Way

Milk From the Tap – The Udder Way manufactures high quality reusable plastics in the form of 18 litre LDPE Kegs and dispensing systems that offer a solution to the plastic pollution generated by the dairy industry. The Udder Way eliminates the need for single use plastic and cartons in the industry by providing an on tap system that[...]

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Ebb & Flow Keg

Wine Kegs For A Sustainable Wine Culture – A modern wine catering company for festivals, trade fairs, company parties, and events. Rethinking how wine is packaged, Ebb & Flow Keg offers an alternative to the common single use bottles. The common wine bottle packaging can account for over 50% of a wine’s CO2 balance. Ebb & Flow Keg’s reusable stainless steel barrels[...]

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Wein-Mehrweg

A Reusable Wine Bottle System in Germany – Established in January 2023, Wein-Mehrweg eG is a cooperative that has developed an innovative 0.75-liter reusable wine bottle concept and intend to gradually have it replace a significant portion of disposable bottles on the market today. Ten founding companies, collectively managing over 5% of Germany’s total vineyards, are supporting this initiative. This sustainable transition[...]

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AINIA

Technology Center For New packaging Materials – The AINIA is one of the largest European technology centers with more than 700 affiliated companies and 1,300 customers. Founded in 1987 as a non-profit organization, the Research and Development Center works to help companies develop sustainable packaging materials with improved and novel functionality. From the point of view of sustainability, biotechnology plays an[...]

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Loop

Deposit Packaging For Mass Produced Goods – As part of a project called Loop, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Danone, Mars Petcare, Mondelēz International and other consumer goods giants are working together with the startup TerraCycle on a solution to reduce waste. 300 items – from Tide detergent to Pantene shampoo and Häagen-Dazs ice cream – are currently already available[...]

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Zero Takeaway Packaging

Takeaway concept – London-based design studio PriestmanGoode’s new concepts show how it is possible to reduce the huge amounts of plastic packaging used in takeaway food deliveries. The project is the latest in a series of concepts the studio has developed to show how design thinking can help address some of the big problems of everyday life[...]

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