APCO Annual Awards winners announced

Winners of the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation’s (APCO) Annual Awards have been announced. These awards recognise excellence in sustainable packaging in Australian businesses, particularly those working towards the 2025 National Packaging Targets. They are not specific to the food industry but businesses from that field were highly represented in the array of winners.

Twenty-two awards were conferred to businesses from a range of sectors that demonstrated best practices in their approaches to sustainable packaging design, leadership and education.

The ceremony’s main prize, the Sustainable Packaging Excellence Award, went to Kellogg’s Australia. This was in recognition of the company’s efforts to optimise its packaging in order to maximise material efficiency. Also recognised was its widespread application of the Australasian Recycling Label on its packaging, with 75% of its range carrying the label.

The spotlight also shone on Coles, which won the large retailer sector award and received the Our Packaging Future (OPF) Award for sustainability education (for industry) thanks to its packaging data project. Also congratulated was Nestlé Australia, which took home the OPF Award for end-market leadership, for its use of Australia’s first chemically recycled content soft food wrapper. Nestlé was also awarded the OPF Award for sustainability education (for consumers) for its KitKat ‘Give the Planet a Break’ campaign.

BioPak was recognised for its contributions to sustainable food packaging, with APCO granting it the OPF Award for Improved Collection and Recycling Systems, and its founder, Richard Fine, was given the Sustainability Champion Award.

Finally for food businesses, Arcadian Organic & Natural Meat Co. was awarded with the High Performing New Member Award.

More can be read about the awards here.

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