{"id":6770,"date":"2022-10-29T05:07:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T05:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/?p=6770"},"modified":"2022-11-01T05:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T05:22:18","slug":"circular-connector-meet-the-2022-sustainable-packaging-innovation-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/29\/circular-connector-meet-the-2022-sustainable-packaging-innovation-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Circular Connector: Meet the 2022 Sustainable Packaging Innovation Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Democratizing climate action has long been a part of how we build programs such as Project Gigaton or the Circular Connector. We collaborate with our partners for action, whether that\u2019s to advance circular solutions, accelerate collaborations on renewable energy and zero waste or to enable more ambitious goal setting with Project Gigaton. Today, we joined the U.S. Plastics Pact at GreenBiz\u2019s VERGE 2022 conference to announce the inaugural Sustainable Packaging Innovations Award winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walmart donated the use of our recently launched Circular Connector platform to help capture innovations for these awards. The award winners cover four key categories: recycling, reuse, composting and reduction. And each winner spotlights either scalability, low-cost efficiencies or a customer-first proposal. Congratulations to the winners!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In April, we launched phase one of the Circular Connector, inviting innovators to submit their solutions for Walmart\u2019s consideration. Solutions are screened against Walmart\u2019s Sustainable Packaging goals and those that are aligned featured in the Connector. Last week, we made the Circulate Connector available for free to everyone via Walmart\u2019s Sustainability Hub. And now, nearly 150 solutions are publicly available on the Circular Connector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scaling Packaging Innovations
<\/strong>Our hope with making Circular Connector open source is that it propels companies to move faster to make design changes that will help create a circular economy for plastics, even our direct competitors. Sustainable packaging changes can\u2019t happen in a silo and require lifecycle thinking. Today we still have packages that can cause confusion for customers: Is it recyclable? Compostable? Wait\u2026I need to remove a label before it can be recycled? And on and on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At our recent 2022 Milestone Sustainability Summit, Walmart President and CEO Doug McMillon said, \u201cOur job is to design everything that we do in a way that the path of least resistance is the more sustainable or regenerative approach.\u201d That is the mindset shift we are working on with our suppliers, our NGO partners and others. Companies have the power to design packages that can help reduce the use of plastics and improve circularity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope that all those like-minded companies who were silently asking how they could get their hands on a sustainable packaging solution will use Circular Connector to source their next innovation. We cannot wait any longer. The ideas are here. Let\u2019s scale them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democratizing climate action has long been a part of how we build programs such as Project Gigaton or the Circular Connector. We collaborate with our partners for action, whether that\u2019s to advance circular solutions, accelerate collaborations on renewable energy and zero waste or to enable more ambitious goal setting with Project Gigaton. Today, we joined<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,64],"tags":[204],"class_list":{"0":"post-6770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-flexible-packaging","8":"category-latest-news","9":"tag-walmart"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6773,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770\/revisions\/6773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}