About the Awards

The Sustainable Packaging Coalition recognizes meaningful contributions and advancements towards more sustainable packaging through the annual SPC Innovator Awards. The awards celebrate and showcase the outstanding collaboration behind extraordinary advancements in sustainability.

The SPC Innovator Awards reflect GreenBlue’s mission to foster education, collaboration, and action to advance sustainable packaging. The awards aim to:

  • Educate the SPC membership and broader sustainability community on the work being done to improve the environmental performance of packaging and to scale packaging systems change
  • Highlight the collaboration that makes leading innovations in our community possible
  • Inspire action by highlighting market-ready packaging improvements and effective partnerships, thereby driving more companies to adopt sustainable packaging innovations

2024 SPC Innovator Awards

Sponsored by Trayak

These groundbreaking technologies were selected based on a rigorous selection criteria, assessed by our esteemed judges. We applaud all three winners for their breakthrough innovations. The SPC Innovator Awards recognize meaningful contributions and advancements towards more sustainable packaging, showcasing the outstanding collaboration behind extraordinary advancements in sustainability.

The 2024 SPC Innovator Awards would not be possible without our sponsor, Trayak.

2024 SPC Innovator Award Winners

Chocal Packaging Solutions

Innovation in a Product or Material

Chocal Paper Blister

Innovation in a Recovery Technology or Practice

Innovation in a Recovery Technology or Practice

RafCycle™ by UPM Raflatac is the original label release liner recycling service

Orora Packaging Solutions

Innovation in an Overall Packaging System

Jarbot Reusable Packaging System

How Winners Were Chosen

The SPC Innovator Awards are open to SPC member companies only. Each member company could submit a maximum of three innovations across the three award categories.

All material submitted to the SPC Innovator Awards program may be used as part of the decision-making or communications about an entry; confidential or proprietary information should not be submitted.

The SPC Innovator Awards are judged by a committee consisting of SPC Executive Committee members, GreenBlue’s Executive Director and project staff, as well as external guest judges from university, consultancy, or design agency representative with significant expertise in a particular category.