interpack cooperates with WPO to present new SAVE FOOD Packaging Awards
In cooperation with interpack 2017, the World Packaging Organization (WPO) has extended its WorldStar Awards to include the category "SAVE FOOD Packaging Awards".
The WorldStar Awards commend best-practice approaches that have already proven themselves on the national level, and the awards will be presented at a ceremony during interpack 2017.
"We are giving the WorldStar Awards a platform in keeping with the standing of these celebrated awards. After all, in terms of innovation density and internationality, no other event can rival interpack worldwide," said Bernd Jablonowski, Global Portfolio Director Packaging & Processing at Messe Düsseldorf, the interpack organizer.
The SAVE FOOD Packaging Awards recognize packaging solutions distinguished by their capacity to reduce food loss and wastage – for instance, by prolonging the packaged product’s shelf life or with intelligent concepts for portioning or protecting the contents of packages once they have been opened.
In the adjudication of the submissions, it is also important that the package's production is resource-efficient and makes use of as little packaging material as necessary.
"We are delighted to be able support the idea of SAVE FOOD with an award. Good packaging can of course go a long way towards reducing food loss and wastage," stressed Dr. Johannes Bergmair, Vice President Sustainability & Food Safety at the WPO.
Overall, associations from more than 15 countries are participating – including ones in Africa and the Middle East – in the staging of the awards.
The national winners will then be competing at interpack 2017 for the WorldStar Award in the SAVE FOOD category and will be exhibited at the "innovationparc" special show, which will again, following on from 2014, be devoted to the topics associated with SAVE FOOD.
