The 25th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation recognized designs that promoted sustainability, cost/waste reduction, protection or international collaboration. Five of the eight food-related winners selected by an independent panel of judges hail from beyond US borders and include Canada, Korea, Japan, Switzerland and the Russia Federation.
DuPont also collaborated with Packaging Impact Quick Evaluation Tool (PIQET) to offer a special, additional award to its Diamond and Gold award winners looking to gain a deeper level of understanding of the environmental impacts of their packaging. Each major winner was given the opportunity to have its packaging undergo a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) assessment. PIQET is a software tool that allows packaging developers and designers to easily compare the overall environmental impact of different packaging formats in a typical LCA format.