Rethink packaging for liquid and pasty food
The amount of harmful plastic being produced per year is skyrocketing. One third of it is used for packaging reasons. Together with Gropper you can find innovative solutions to find innovative and sustainable packaging solutions for liquid and pasty food products.
To support you in your idea and team generation process, you have the opportunity to participate in one of our digital design thinking workshop - register here or find more information here.
✅ Completed 🏁 Winner Congrats to Team Marea!
🏆 Prize 20,000 € prize pool prize pool in the Innovate2030 project + joint publication with all stakeholders + chance for further cooperation with Gropper
Criteria & guidelines
Criteria that should be followed
The innovative packaging should be useable for liquid food since the final product will include moisture. Hence it shouldn’t leak.
Further it should be suitable for acidic and fatty substances, i.e. suitable for ph-values between 4.0 and 7.0.
Promising approaches
The most promising solutions are ready to be put to trail at the end of the second phase of the Innovate2030 Challenge – prototypes are a good starter in that regard. Ideally Gropper wants your solution to be implemented in their packaging procedure.
Approaches that have already been pursued or are excluded
Everything is allowed! No material is excluded from possible solutions. The more diverse the range of solutions is, the better – if the above criteria are met. Question existing standards about packaging of food and come up with innovative solutions to change the status quo.
Knowledge Base
The debate about alternative packaging methods is going on for quite some time. You will be able to find many inspiring approaches to this challenge online.
To name a few of them, here is a list of ideas that are being followed up on so far. Important: The approaches should only serve as inspiration and in no way limit your ideas and approaches - think new, think out-of-the-box!
- Bioplastics made out of the waste products from corn production
- “Grown” packaging out of mushroom roots like Mycelium
- Two “shell” solutions: combining an outer shell out of recyclable fiber with an inner one made out of recyclable plastic, needing less material than regular bottles
- Palm leave boxes