Top Priorities:

  • Light-weight, low-carbon, high-recycled content reusable beverage packaging.

  • Non-plastic alternatives for flexible packaging (e.g., bags, sachets) using home compostable materials with barrier properties. Solutions need a high moisture barrier.

  • Recycle sortation tech for small packaging items, such as HDPE toothbrushes, PP closures and sachets.

  • Label recycling and replacement solutions for paper/plastic materials.

  • Innovative recyclable PET and HDPE caps and plastic-free or recyclable label solutions (including PET).

  • Water-efficient, energy-efficient, and dry washing technologies to remove residues and contaminants from flexible packaging and PCR streams, enabling higher-quality recycling.

  • End market development alternatives for flexible packaging and other difficult to recycle items beyond hyper-local and limited solutions e.g. benches, decking, fence posts.

  • Dissolution recycling technologies to produce higher-quality PCR through removal of odors, colorants, and contaminants, enabling advanced recycling and food-contact applications.

  • Smart packaging barrier: Prevent off-notes, aroma protection, contaminant.

  • Coating for Fiber based packaging: Creating forms that provide either moisture – oxygen – gas – water barriers without impact on recyclability, minimizing no-paper fraction (ideally plastic free) meeting quality standards for shelf life. Can be applied by conventional coating technology or printing or spraying technology.

  • Collection programs that focus on collective action (at least four brands + retail partner) in the Global South.

Other Areas of Interest:

  • Segregated collection systems for disposable cups, small format items, and mono-material bags and pouches, especially those that include incentivization / reward.
  • Eco-friendly ink innovations that maintain high line speeds.
  • Sorting, recycling, and reuse schemes in distribution centers and wholesalers.
  • Reintroduction of returnable/reusable packaging into developed markets, with traceability and trip/rotation tracking.
  • Solutions for amber PET recycling and PET label carrier (with silicon) recycling.
  • Serialized Deposit Return Systems (Digital DRS) and collection tech, including body and end separation for cans.
  • Technologies that extend the lifecycle of returnable packaging, including advanced washing/rinsing systems and durable, anti-scuff, self-healing or self-sterilizing coatings for reusable bottles.
  • Food-grade recycling solutions, with barrier properties for PET (focus on China & South Korea) and food-grade recycling solutions for HDPE rigid packaging (focus on Global South)
  • Washing solutions to increase cullet recyclability.
  • Eco-friendly anti-slip hot melt as a sustainable alternative to can packing film.
  • Carton recycling solutions (e.g., folding cartons, corrugated) and high-solidity recycled paper for cluster packs.
  • Solutions for reverse logistics, such as mapping and maximizing the use of empty trucks/containers to support collection for recycling systems, sanitation systems for transporting waste or preventing leakage/contamination, mobile conversion of collected goods into raw materials.
  • Circular design solutions for offline events, including but not limited to promoting sustainability through creative formats, eco-friendly materials, and material recycling.
  • Organization and solution for recycling value chain (waste pickers) to build recyclable waste circularity to our own productive loop.
  • Enable better sorting for new recycling streams like PET tray to tray.
  • ReFill and/or ReUse solutions in store, stations, in house, on the go focused on homecare and personal care.
  • Adopting a circular approach for additional polymers: This involves incorporating more polymers like HDPE and PP into the recycling process.
  • Expanding closed-loop recycling to other polymers: This includes developing food contact recycling, which requires new defined sorted streams and emphasizes the importance of the sorting step to purify streams for safe food contact recycling.
  • PET bottles > 2L : Focusing on optimization to minimize material usage by technology / process to embrace optimize packaging.
  • Smart coating for a better product consummation such as easy glide , shelf-life protection.
  • Aluminum Containers coating: Design a safe, neutral coating for natural water. Prioritize traceability, hygiene, and eco-friendly materials to enhance quality and sustainability. BPA-Free coating.
  • Traceability for reuse packaging: best fitting technologies without hindering recyclability (ie chemical marking, physical marking, reactive master batch, codes, washing resistance...)
  • AI for recycling (sorting, control, characterization, valorization potential).
  • Recycled/recyclable secondary and tertiary packaging materials.
  • Reduce organic waste in our packaging (fiber-based and plastics) to improve sorting and recycling
  • Food Grade rPP / rPE / rPS : Fostering recycled polypropylene (rPP), recycled polyethylene (rPE), recycled polystyrene (rPS) for food packaging under regulation approval by technology / process & material properties
  • PET/HDPE Bottle Ultra-Light Weighting: beyond simple weight reduction, focusing on optimization to minimize material usage by technology / process & material properties.
  • Coating for Fiber based packaging: Creating forms that provide either moisture – oxygen – gas – water barriers without impact on recyclability, minimizing no-paper fraction (ideally plastic free) meeting quality standards for shelf life. Can be applied by conventional coating technology or printing or spraying technology.
  • Collection System for small size sachets and pouches (paper based but can start material agnostic), especially those that include incentivization reward