Sustainable sugar cane cosmetic tube packaging

 Will sustainable packaging design help your brand?

Reduce, reuse, recycle! Sustainable packaging design has become key for brands to appeal to modern consumers. Consumers are more educated and more inclined to choose products with sustainable packaging designs over the same products with unsustainable packaging designs. Has moved to environmentally friendly, recyclable and compostable packaging designs. This shift in focus has put leading brands and companies under scrutiny for unsustainable production factors. Over the past five years, brands have adopted sustainable packaging design at an incredible rate.

Switching to more sustainable packaging is one obvious action brands can take to respond to consumers. Having sustainable packaging is a quick and easy way for brands to communicate their efforts to change and adopt more environmentally conscious values. Industry leaders are now constantly seeking more sustainable materials and resources. For leaders evaluating sustainable packaging design options and considering alternatives, factors such as pressure to require a minimum carbon footprint are top of mind.

Consumers want to buy greener products, but their decisions are often based on quick judgment. Some people find it difficult to differentiate between unsustainable and sustainable packaging designs, so if you make an effort to pack your products in eco-friendly packaging, tell your consumers. This is not to brag, but to help shoppers make informed purchasing decisions. The visual appearance of packaging affects consumer behavior. Research shows this is especially true when making purchasing decisions with sustainability and sorting waste in mind. This means your sustainable packaging design is more likely to be selected and properly thrown into the recycling bin.

Sustainable packaging design materials: what are the options?

When it comes to sustainable packaging, brands source more plant-based fibers than plastic materials. However, there is growing interest in biodegradable and compostable plastics. Brands are using unique sustainable packaging design materials as they strive for cost-effective solutions. Here we share five interesting examples of materials for sustainable packaging design.

Sugar Cane Cosmetic Tube

Xinfly Packaging uses sugar cane as a raw material to support the sustainable packaging design of its face wash, scrub and moisturizer. The tubes are made from sugarcane plastic, which comes from the sugarcane plant, a renewable resource.

The main ingredient used in most sustainable sugarcane-based packaging designs is bagasse, an extract of the sugarcane plant. It is biodegradable, has high heat resistance and, like sugar cane plastic, comes from renewable sources.

Appreciate Sustainable Packaging Design

 With the rapid economic development and the society's increasing attention to environmental issues, sustainable packaging design has become the development trend of future packaging design. More and more practical and environmentally friendly packaging designs have been integrated into people's daily life, adding a little color and interest to the busy life, and also conveying the concept of green and environmentally friendly life. Today, Xiaobian brings you several sustainable packaging designs, let’s experience these sparkling ideas together!

Cocoa beans can not only make chocolate, but also make packaging

Maybe you like to eat chocolate chips and know that the raw materials of chocolate chips come from cocoa beans, but do you know that the shell of cocoa beans can also be used for packaging? PriestmanGoode has designed a sustainable lunch box made from cocoa shells, mycelium and pineapple shells. Looking to use natural materials instead of plastic to reduce environmental impact and create a more comfortable dining experience.

Have you ever seen a tote bag made of peel?

Minimalist design style, colorful color options, environmentally friendly natural attributes, this is the Sonne155 designed by Johanna Hehemeyer-Cürten and Lobke Beckfeld. This tote bag is made of biodegradable materials, and the ultimate destination of each bag is to decompose. Designers hope to use this design to replace disposable packaging bags and spread the concept of sustainable environmental protection.

Packaging is also soap, no waste

Looking closely, it is not difficult to find that most of the soaps purchased in supermarkets are paper packaging, but there are still plastic packaging for soap on the market. Every year, unmeasurable soap boxes flow into the ocean or stray in all corners of nature, causing pollution to the environment. In search of an alternative to plastic containers, designer Jonna Breitenhuber designed a soap package that directly encapsulates liquid soap in solid soap. Yes, you read that right, it is both a packaging and a soap. No garbage, isn't it nice!

There are many more packaging designs like this. In the final analysis, designers adhere to the concept of sustainable development and minimize the impact on the environment after packaging is discarded. This coincides with Ranpak's philosophy. We also focus on sustainable packaging solutions, using kraft paper that is recyclable, renewable and degradable.

Nippon Paper Industries and Elopak Collaborate on Sustainable Packaging

Norway's Elopak and Nippon Paper Industries have reportedly signed a comprehensive memorandum of understanding (MoU, a treaty dealing with smaller matters) that covers Further collaboration between the two companies on how to jointly develop and organize potential businesses based on their respective expertise, assets and networks.

Nippon Paper Industries is a leading liquid packaging company in Japan. Under the slogan of "Developing the Future with Trees", it focuses on the use of wood, a renewable resource, and works in the field of paper packaging, with the aim of enriching people's lives and development. culture contributes.

Well-known Enterprises Actively Seek Green Packaging

Under the guidance of controlling plastic pollution and improving waste recycling, the 14th Five-Year Circular Economy Development Strategy, the peak of carbon dioxide emissions, and the carbon neutral strategy, many packaging can be green, reduced and recycled. Various packaging and chemical companies have responded and actively explored green packaging.

Coca-Cola: We commit to 25% sustainable packaging by 2030

Coca-Cola committed on Thursday, February 10, to reuse 25 percent of its packaging globally by 2030, up from 16 percent in 2020.

If Coca-Cola achieves that goal, "it will be easier for us to achieve our goal of a 'garbage-free world' of every sale by 2030," Coca-Cola Chief Executive James Quincey said on a Feb. 10 financial report call. a bottle of Coke

Fund manager Green Century Capital Management said in a statement that Coca-Cola's announcement on Thursday was "the first known target of its kind" and a "hot strategic shift."

Previously, the Green Center and activist investor As You Sow put forward a shareholder proposal urging Coca-Cola to reduce single-use plastic. They are now considering whether to withdraw the proposal.

National Youth Environmental Packaging Innovation Project Lauched

On November 15th, the public education project to advocate the development of plastic circular economy and sustainable packaging environmental protection - 2021-2022 Charity Future·Mars Wrigley "Sustainable, Mars Go" youth packaging environmental protection project was officially launched online through interactive live broadcast. A total of 55 college associations in 30 cities in 22 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) were selected as cooperative associations of the project this year; through four major innovation highlights, it helps youth sustainable creativity to land. The event has been held for 7 consecutive years, affecting 35.66 million people.

Four major innovation highlights, helping young people to realize their creativity

In 2021, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued the "14th Five-Year Plan" Plastic Pollution Control Action Plan (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") to further improve the entire chain of plastic pollution control system. The "Plan" proposes that by 2025, in order to make the plastic pollution control mechanism operate more effectively, it is necessary to effectively implement local, departmental and corporate responsibilities, and significantly improve the effectiveness of the entire chain of plastic products production, circulation, consumption, recycling, and end disposal. The “Sustainable, Marshall GO” National Youth Environmental Packaging Innovation Project aims to encourage contemporary youth to design packaging creatively, advocate the concept of sustainable packaging and environmental protection, call on the public to participate in sustainable packaging actions, and jointly promote the plastic recycling economy.

At the kick-off meeting, Wang Peng, deputy secretary-general of China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, said: "To achieve sustainability, packaging requires the participation of the whole society, especially young people. Let us work together to contribute to the sustainable development of society and the construction of a beautiful ecology. The environment, make a contribution."

After the official launch of the project was announced, the excellent teams from the previous session shared relevant project planning and competition experience as the dream leader. Liu Tianhang, director of the scientific research project department of the China Export Commodity Packaging Research Institute, gave a detailed interpretation of the sustainable packaging issue and invited participants to the conference. Participants can have a deeper understanding of the sustainable meaning of packaging and provide project inspiration for the contestants.

Different from previous years, the 2021-2022 Charity Future Mars Wrigley “Sustainable, Mars Go” youth packaging environmental protection project has four innovations. Firstly, an interactive section of creative parking lot was added, and the innovative suggestions in the competition were displayed on the WeChat official account platform of "Packaging is not wasteful", and stored for a long time, inspiring the generation of related concepts in the future; at the same time, the plan was implemented in the enterprise and built The docking platform between universities and enterprises, to show excellent plans designed by students to enterprises, so that excellent plans can be tested in practice; advocate the sustainable development of communities, colleges and universities after training cooperate with the community to carry out community advocacy actions, and the output packaging is sustainable Action guidelines, set up a long-term voluntary community working group to implement sustainability in the community; and hold a youth environmental protection conference, inviting relevant government departments, universities, youth innovation teams, environmental protection agencies, social innovation companies, etc. to share, hands-on practice, and collisions Creative spark.

From waste sorting to sustainable packaging, environmental protection concepts affect more than 30 million people

Since 2014, Mars Wrigley (China) Co., Ltd. has cooperated with China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation to carry out the "Public Welfare Future" project to provide college students with a platform for environmental protection and public welfare practice, and pass the environmental protection concept to 35.66 million college students and community residents, achieving good social effects .

As the representative of Mars Wrigley China, Mo Jiayi, Director of Corporate Affairs, said at the meeting: “Mars believes that the future begins in the present. We expect the future of the planet to be healthier. Therefore, starting from 2019, we will upgrade from “packaging upgrades”. "Iteration", "consumer education" and "supporting the construction of circular economy" are working hard to promote the sustainable development of packaging. There is still a long way to go. What is gratifying is that we are already on the way. I hope more young students Join us in the team that promotes sustainable development, and work with more consumers to create a better tomorrow and a sustainable and healthy planet!"

In order to raise the public's awareness of packaging sustainability, the "Waste Investment" project was upgraded to the theme of "Packaging Sustainability". This year's "Sustainable, Ma Shang GO" environmental protection project, in addition to the packaging sustainability design competition, also added two additional activities, community advocacy actions and environmental youth conferences, calling on the public to actively participate in packaging sustainability actions.

Starting from November 15th, all college teams will compete for the championship through online registration, regional competitions, offline roadshows, and finals. The champion team will participate in public welfare study tours with representatives of the study tour clubs, and use their own practice to contribute their part to environmental protection.

Coca-Cola Launched Plant-based Packaging In UK

 Coca-Cola takes the lead in launching new plant-based packaging in the UK

Recently, the Coca-Cola Company has adopted newly developed packaging bottles made from a mixture of plant materials and recycled plastics in its sustainable product line, and plans to use this new packaging for its seven sub-brands including Coca-Cola, Diet Coke and Zero Coke, etc.

Coca-Cola has pioneered in launching 200 million such plant-based beverages in the UK market. The company will continue to launch such environmentally-friendly beverages in more than 20 countries around the world.

In recent years, the Coca-Cola Company has been committed to looking for renewable energy and material recycling, and plans to use plant-derived materials and packaging made of recyclable PET plastic (polyterephthalate) in 2020 for all beverage packaging bottles.

The company adopted plastic recycling technology in 1991 and invested 15 million pounds to build a plastic recycling plant in Lincolnshire, England in the first half of this year, which will double the output of recycled plastics in the United Kingdom.

Sustainable Packaging - The Revolution Has Begun

With the increasingly serious environmental pollution, the discussion on "sustainable packaging" has never stopped, and some giant companies have already begun to take action.

Amazon  & Coca-Cola

Amazon has made major strategic adjustments in shipping packaging. It plans to use Bubble Mailer (bubble bags) and compact cartons for packaging and shipping as much as possible. The Coca-Cola Company announced on January 22 that it will reshape its global strategy for sustainable packaging. By 2030, 100% of the company's packaging will be recycled and reused in the same amount. To this end, Coca-Cola will continue to invest in the two major directions of environmental protection and packaging innovation in the future, making the issue of packaging waste a thing of the past. (Related: Coca-Cola Launched Plant-based Packaging In UK)

Unilever  & Starbucks

Unilever Global CEO Polman called on January 23 that the consumer goods industry needs to increase its efforts to actively respond to the increasing challenges of marine plastic waste and help realize the plastic circular economy. The British Parliament proposed a tax on disposable paper cups, and Starbucks took the initiative to participate in this proposal. Starting in February this year, 20-25 Starbucks in London will begin trial operation, charging an extra 5 pence for each disposable paper cup, and the trial period will be three months.

European Union 

The EU announced the latest plastic restriction plan, saying that by 2030, all plastic packaging will be recycled and disposable plastics such as coffee cups will no longer be used to combat pollution. Global packaging giant Tetra Pak has pledged to support the European Commission’s plastics strategy and announced it as part of the European Union’s Circular Economy Action Plan. Tetra Pak said it will work with industry partners to ensure that by 2030, all components of beverage cartons will be provided with recycling solutions for full recycling in Europe.