The jury of the „Polite Packaging“ packaging prize has awarded a special prize for the first time. A plastic bucket with a grid structure for snack tomatoes was honoured.
Small tomatoes, known as cherry or date tomatoes, are becoming increasingly popular because they are very convenient to eat as a snack between meals. They are usually sold in Plastic buckets with lids which is ideal for product protection and logistics, but not with regard to the Sustainability. Anyone who likes to eat healthily and comfortably has had to do so with a bad feeling about raw materials and the environment.
Several advantages
The „Pöppelmann" packaging system developed by packaging manufacturer Pöppelmann GmbH & Co. KG developed "Lattice bucket“ offers a solution to this problem. According to the company, the grid structure of the outer wall reduces the Material usage down by almost 30 per cent. The Product weightt drops from approx. 30 grams to just 20.5 grams. The grid structure also has an advantage for the shelf life of the contents - they are better ventilated and this reduces the risk of spoilage.
„The Pöppelmann mesh bucket is not only polite to the product and the environment, but also to the consumer. It offers the consumer a practical solution for transporting and storing snack tomatoes and is therefore a perfect fit for a product such as snack tomatoes, which consumers consume because they fulfil their need for everyday healthy food,“ explains Dr Gundolf Meyer-Hentschel, chairman of the jury.
This is why the bucket in a grid structure is labelled as „polite packaging“ and may bear the label „Polite packaging“ in gold wear.
[infotext icon] The „Polite Packaging“ award is an initiative of the Meyer-Henschel Institute, Zurich/Saarbrücken. The award was presented for the 11th time in 2019. The „Polite Packaging“ award recognises packaging solutions that are consistently consumer and environmentally friendly. [/infotext]Source: Polite Packaging Award
You can find more information on the new grid structure bucket here.
