Business Performance Categories

These awards recognise brands and retailers committed to sustainability and using packaging to reduce their impact on the environment.

*Projects should relate to the period under review, January 2022 - November 2023. Entries deadline extended Thursday 28 March 2024 and must be from the UK.

The winning entry needs to demonstrate:

- How packaging is a pillar of hitting sustainable targets and how those shape every aspect of the business

- Progress made towards those targets demonstrated through robust data

- A clear understanding of the current legislative landscape

- How environmental strategy is clearly communicated internally and how individuals are empowered or incentivized to work towards a common goal

- Data on how the business’ environmental targets are progressing and progress on a year-by-year basis

- An understanding of packaging’s positive impact on the environment and its protection of products.

Environmental Champion Award

We’re looking for individuals who champion sustainability, whether that’s within their organisation or outside. They need to be influencers, educating the benefits of packaging and keeping a keen eye on the latest set of government guidelines or looming legislation. Businesses and organisations can nominate a candidate (s) or individuals can nominate themselves.

This category is open to individuals working across the entire packaging supply chain including retailers, brand owners, manufacturers, designers, material suppliers and waste management companies.
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Environmental Champion Award

The winning entry needs to:

  • Have clear understanding of packaging’s role in the supply chain and how it boosts the green credentials of a product;
  • Communicate sustainable change with external stakeholders;
  • Inspire, communicate and drive sustainable thinking within their own organisation;
  • Demonstrate ideas or innovative thinking on environmental matters;
  • Understand government legislation and how it affects their business or organisation;
  • Demonstrate how their sustainable strategies have had a positive effect on their business or organisation.

Sustainable Brand of the Year

The Sustainable Brand of the Year recognises a brand who is committed to sustainability and using packaging to reduce their impact on the environment.
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Sustainable Brand of the Year

The winning entry needs to demonstrate:

  • How packaging is a pillar of hitting sustainable targets and how those shape every aspect of the business;
  • Progress made towards those targets demonstrated through robust data;
  • A clear understanding of the current legislative landscape;
  • How environmental strategy is clearly communicated internally and how individuals are empowered or incentivized to work towards a common goal;
  • Data on how the business’ environmental targets are progressing and progress on a year-by-year basis;
  • An understanding of packaging’s positive impact on the environment and its protection of products.

This category is open to brands of all sizes.

Sustainable Development Team of the Year

This award is designed to celebrate a packaging development team that has demonstrated excellence in developing sustainable projects and strategies.

This category is open exclusively to packaging development teams at brands and retailers.
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Sustainable Development Team of the Year

The entry needs to demonstrate:

  • A clear understanding of the sustainable landscape and the upcoming packaging reforms that will affect design and manufacturing
  • Intelligent choices around packaging materials – to clearly demonstrate why those decisions were reached and provide relevant data
  • An avoidance of greenwash
  • How the team understands the sustainable strategy of its organisation and puts that strategy into practice
  • Three physical examples of the team’s best packaging during the year under consideration, illustrating its best work

Sustainable Innovation of the Year

This award is open exclusively to packaging designers, manufacturers and converters – it’s not open to in-house departments in brands and retailers.

We are looking for the business that has come up with packaging projects that have moved the dial and have been launched onto the market during the period under consideration.
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Sustainable Innovation of the Year

The entry needs to demonstrate:

  • A clear step forward compared to what else is on the market
  • An understanding of a specific sustainable challenge and a clear roadmap on solving the issue
  • A data-backed approach with evidence of how targets were met
  • How the project made it to the market and how it met the client’s brief
  • Ensure that material choice meets the relevant accreditations

Sustainable Retailer of the Year

This award will reward a retailer committed to sustainability and using packaging to reduce their impact on the environment.

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Sustainable Retailer of the Year

The winning entry needs to demonstrate:

  • How packaging is a pillar of hitting sustainable targets and how those shape every aspect of the business
  • Progress made towards those targets demonstrated through robust data
  • A clear understanding of the current legislative landscape
  • How environmental strategy is clearly communicated internally and how individuals are empowered or incentivized to work towards a common goal
  • Data on how the business’ environmental targets are progressing and progress on a year-by-year basis
  • An understanding of packaging’s positive impact on the environment and its protection of products.

This category is open to retailers of all sizes.