Beyondplastic Awards 13 Winners With Exciting New Plastic Free Initiatives

The global online platform for eco-designed solutions BEYONDPLASTIC has crowned 13 winners of the

first ever 2020 BEYONDPLASTIC AWARD.

Launched by entrepreneur, engineer, and inventor Ulrich Krzyminski, everyone who had an idea, concept, project, prototype or even a solution already in market which supports less single-use plastic was invited to take part.

The BEYONDPLASTIC Award jury panel scored entries across four categories:

Most Practical Impact

Most Innovative Approach

Most Beautiful Solution

Best Initiative

The judges awarded bronze, silver, and gold winners in each category who were awarded with cash prizes out of a pot of more than 7,000 Euros.

The full list of Award winners can be found at: www.beyondplastic.net/showcase.

The gold winners in each category were:

Most Practical Impact

Unpack Less, Peel More by Elena Amato, Ponto Biodesign, Brazil & Caroline Pagnan (Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais)

A sustainable personal care packaging solution made out of bacterial cellulose. The packaging system

reproduces the structure of a fruit, juice – pulp – peel. Natural pigments like spirulina, hibiscus, saffron and charcoal were added to the blending process, giving different colors and properties to the samples.

Most Innovative Approach

The Item Bag 2.0: Packaging That Dissolves!

by Jack Cleary and the Wastebased Team, United Kingdom.

The Item Bag 2.0 – a biodegradable, non-toxic, carbon-negative storage bag made from a polymer similar to the material used to coat dishwasher/laundry tablets, that dissolves in boiling water.

Most Beautiful Solution

Shell Homage – Bio Material Out of Egg & Nut Shells

by Rania Elkalla, Germany

Shell Homage is a biodegradable composite material out of egg and nut shells without toxic chemicals. It is completely biodegradable and can decompose when no longer in use. It can be used in several industries as product design, interior design, consumable goods and jewellery design.

Best Initiative in Education / Journalism / Campaigning (2 Winners)

Choose the Reusable Cup

by Sabina Maksimova, Ilian Iliev & Evgenia Tasheva, Bulgaria

The “Choose the Reusable Cup” project started as a local community initiative in a state kindergarten

in the town of Varna, Bulgaria. Sabina Maksimova, a mother of two, proposed a solution: a reusable

metal cup, engraved with a unique symbol for each child.

U-RETAIN

by John Emmanuel Kachakwale & Beatrice Phiri, Zambia

The initiative collects and trades plastic waste to recycling companies and the money is used to

get educational material and also menstrual hygiene products. The people of U-Retain work together

with the Visionary Youth for Change Initiative.

More info: beyondplastic.net