{"id":87359,"date":"2023-10-31T13:48:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T12:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=87359"},"modified":"2024-11-12T13:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T12:03:18","slug":"recup-wins-german-sustainability-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/recup-gewinnt-deutschen-nachhaltigkeitspreis\/","title":{"rendered":"Recup and interzero win German Sustainability Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This year, the German Sustainability Award will be presented to 100 sectors for the first time. The winners and companies have now been announced. Recup GmbH won in the packaging category, which packaging journal supports as a media partner. interzero was honoured in the waste disposal and recycling industry category.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201eThere are successful sustainability solutions in all sectors. We want to help disseminate the best examples in order to accelerate the necessary transformations.\u201c<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stefan Schulze-Hausmann<\/strong>, Chairman of the Board of the German Sustainability Award Foundation e.V.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In cooperation with the DIHK, the Federal Environment Ministry, the WWF and numerous partners from research and consultancy, the <strong>16th DNP company prize awarded in 100 sectors for the first time<\/strong>. In each sector, artificial intelligence was first used to research around 50 companies in publicly available data such as sustainability reports, rankings and websites.<\/p>\n<p>Their sustainability profiles, which are based on the EU's CSRD, were subjected to scoring. <strong>Expert juries for each sector - totalling around 150 experts from research, consulting, associations and civil society - selected the finalists and winners in a nomination round and a decision-making round<\/strong> from: Companies that demonstrate effective and exemplary contributions to transformation in their sector, that have become - or should become - \u201ebeacons\u201c of their sectors.<\/p><div class=\"packa-in-post-alle\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"packa-2745016415\"><div id=\"packa-2244141066\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"PJ Self-promotion English 03\"><!--noptimize--><img src=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03.png 840w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-768x192.png 768w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-18x5.png 18w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-332x83.png 332w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-664x166.png 664w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-688x172.png 688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" width=\"840\" height=\"210\"  style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><!--\/noptimize--><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<h2>Winner in the packaging sector<\/h2>\n<p>The jurors of the <a href=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?s=deutscher+nachhaltigkeitspreis\">DNP<\/a> for companies have proved to be <strong>companies that they believe are leading the sustainable transformation in their industries this year<\/strong>. Their decisions recognisably reflect the breadth and depth of the transformation: with very different challenges, company sizes and contexts. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?s=reCup&amp;cat=-1&amp;date-all=all&amp;begin=&amp;end=\">Recup GmbH<\/a> made it through to the final because the company <strong>made particularly effective, exemplary contributions to the transformation, thereby becoming a role model and sending the right signals to its industry.<\/strong> and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The waste disposal and recycling sector is certainly also relevant for the packaging industry. Here the <a href=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?s=interzero&amp;cat=-1&amp;date-all=all&amp;begin=&amp;end=\">interzero<\/a> Holding GmbH was honoured with an award. According to the expert jury, the company is one of the <strong>pioneers of the urgently needed sustainable transformation, pioneers of a future-proof circular economy<\/strong>. Closing cycles makes a significant contribution to conserving resources and reducing climate-damaging emissions. We need a consistent, holistic circular economy in order to maintain the quality of life on our planet.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201eThe award confirms that we are on the right track: Together with customers and partners, we want to realise a genuine, sustainable circular economy - and thus counteract the overloading of our planet more and more effectively.\u201c<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Axel Schweitzer<\/strong>, Chairman Interzero<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Represented by their CEOs and sustainability officers <strong>the 100 industry winners will receive their trophies on 23 November 2023 as part of the two-day 16th German Sustainability Day<\/strong>. In addition, the MARITIM Hotel D\u00fcsseldorf will honour the five cross-sector winners who have made particularly exemplary achievements in the transformation fields of climate, resources, nature and value chain\/society.<\/p>\n<p>Honorary awards will go to CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour and US singer and sustainability activist Macy Gray, among others. The awards ceremony in TV format will be hosted by Dennis Wilms (SWR), Jeannine Michaelsen (Pro7), Dr Florence Randrianarisoa (\u201aDr Flojo\u2018, ZDF) and science astronaut Dr Insa Thiele-Eich, among others. Michelin-starred chef Nelson M\u00fcller will provide the vegetarian dinner. Tickets at karten.nachhaltigkeitspreis.de\/<\/p>\n<p>On the following evening, 24 November 2023, the DNP Sport and the International DNP will celebrate their premiere, the 9th Next Economy Award will go to green start-ups and Dr Eckart von Hirschhausen will present the new DNP Health.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeitspreis.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German Sustainability Award<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>More news on sustainability<\/h2>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The German Sustainability Award is presented to 100 industries for the first time. Recup GmbH won in the packaging category.\u00a0","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","rank_math_description":"Der Deutsche Nachhaltigkeitspreis wird erstmals an 100 Branchen vergeben. In der Kategorie Verpackung hat die Recup GmbH gewonnen.\u00a0","rank_math_focus_keyword":"recup,nachhaltigkeitspreis","rank_math_title":"","csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58781],"tags":[59056,38,59698,31,58947],"class_list":{"0":"post-87359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-packaging","8":"tag-deutscher-nachhaltigkeitspreis","9":"tag-lebensmittel","10":"tag-mehrweg","11":"tag-nachhaltigkeit-und-green-packaging","12":"tag-recup","13":"cs-entry","14":"cs-video-wrap"},"acf":[],"vimeo_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}