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SAVE FOOD FIRST
The Save Food Packaging Design of the Year award is designed to rec- ognise companies that are working to minimise or prevent food waste from paddock to plate – using inno- vative and intuitive design features that can contain and protect, preserve and extend shelf life – all the while meeting global sustainable packag- ing targets.
GS1 Australia and Woolworths won silver in this category for 2DBar- codes by GS1, and there were two gold winners.
In its third gold win of the day, Caps & Closures triumphed for the Ther- moShield Temperature Monitoring System (see page 18), which also won in the food packaging category.
Sealed Air NZ also took home gold, for the packaging for Inghams Waitoa Free Range Butterflied Chicken, a pre- marinated format that enables an easy open and easy cooking experience and that is an easy way to mitigate waste in households.
Apart from cooking and storage instructions, and a best-before date, on-pack information includes a scan- nable QR code offers consumers each access to the Waitoa website for meal inspiration ideas.
Nylon can be a nuisance for recy- cling streams, so a high polyethylene equivalent bag of equal gauge (65 micron) was designed to overcome recycling challenges without com- promising abuse resistance and protection. The Cryovac solution incorporates 80 per cent recycled materials in this food-contact pack- aging application. The vacuum tight hermetic seal keeps poultry fresh and mitigates risks for human contamination.
Using the Cryovac brand 80 per cent recycled content barrier pouch, shelf
life has increased by40percentto14 days, attributable to both switching to a high barrier film and optimis- ing processing techniques at Inghams.
This pack is Australasian Recycling Label soft plastics recyclable in New Zealand and recyclable through Red- Cycle/store drop off programs in Australia.
SUSTAINABILITY SHINES
The Sustainable Packaging Design of the Year award is designed to recog- nise companies that have developed innovative packaging or processing solutions that incorporates sustain- ability considerations. Elements include Social, Material, Source Reduction, Energy and Recovery.
Due to the continued high standard of innovative designs that cover such
TOP: Gold winner, Save Food Packaging Design category: Sealed Air NZ’s packaging for Inghams Waitoa Free Range Butterflied Chicken.
ABOVE: Gold winner, Reuse/ Refill: Close the Loop Group’s Koh Kerbside Recyclable Spout Pouch Refill Pack.
a broad spectrum of the waste hier- archy, the judges have separated the winners into subset categories.
REUSE/REFILL
Gold in the Reuse/Refill subcategory went to Close the Loop Group for its Koh Kerbside Recyclable Spout Pouch Refill Pack, made from 100 per cent mono-polymer PE and is Roll ‘n’ Recycle’s first ever kerbside recycla- ble spout pouch. The pouch can be rolled in a three-dimensional shape with a label attached to help keep the rolled tube form. The previous Roll ‘n’
Recycle concept had a semi-attached label with specifications which included sizing limitations. The new packaging sees the label redesigned to incorporate a com- plete detachment from the pouch and the ability to fully roll into the tube shape. This allows for greater stability and reduces the level of stress on the label. As Koh is predomi- nantly an e-commerce brand, the Spout Pouch packaging is lightweight. The refill pack provides a customer with five refills in one pouch for their rigid spray bottle that they can keep at home. The refill pouch provided weights 30g and can hold the same amount of volume as five 114g rigid
containers.
RECYCLE/RECOVER
Two silver awards were given in the Recycle/Recover category, one to Det- mold Group for the Detpak RecycleMe Noodle Cup, the other to Huhtamaki Australia for the Maggi Recipe Base/ Mono-PP sachet.
There were also two gold winners in this category. The first is MaCher Australia for the Royal Australian Mint Coin Packaging.
This is the first-time moulded fibre has been used to create high-end, premium, collectable packaging – a packaging category that is usually dominated by a heavy use of mixed
In Sustainable Packaging Design, due to the continued high standard of innovative designs that cover a broad spectrum of the waste hierarchy, winners [are] separated into subset categories.”