On Wednesday, February 5, the National Packaging Council (NPC) awarded prizes in its Packaged 5.0 contest. The ceremony of this 10th edition of the student packaging design competition brought together about 100 packaging, marketing and sustainable development professionals.
The jury selected six cases that each team of students defended before the public in six minutes. The public then chose the three winners of the competition.
The CNE, an association created in 1997 that brings together the various players in the packaging value chain, rewards, with this competition, innovation in the product/packaging couple and design that reduces its impact on the environment. "Eco-design, beyond simple prevention through reduction at source, aims to design products that respect the pillars of sustainable development throughout the entire life cycle of the packaged product (from the extraction of the material to recovery at the end of its life)"
The three winning innovative packaging designs are...
- Emboit'thé by Florian Carvalho, Caroline Pépin and Florian Lheureux.. (from the Institut Supérieur Ingénierie Packaging or ISIP Angoulême)
Emboit' Thé is a tea package that is "halfway between loose tea and prepackaged tea." which corresponds to a new consumer use. It consists of a roll of paper tea bags in a dispenser box.
- Roll & Go by Mohamed Diare, Lynda Ikhlef, Natasa Radovanovic and Faouzi Chahi (from the National School of Agronomy and Food Industries ENSAIA of Nancy)
Roll & Go is a new form of packaging for sanitary napkins that should reduce plastic packaging. Roll & Go is like a roll of toilet paper: the napkins are pre-cut and rolled, eliminating individual plastic pouches.
- Ecogum by Imane Rabla, Jonathan Pham, Mylène Guillot and Saida Elidrissi (from the European Higher School of Packaging or Esepac du Puy en Velay)
Ecogum allows the bundling of chewing gum packets without the use of plastic. It is made of the same material as the boxes and is easy to use.
