PAC’s Just One Package Challenge winners announced
By Canadian Packaging staff
Design & Innovation General Bagging/Weighing Film Paperboard Packaging Canadian Tire Conestoga College Costco Durham College Home Depot Humber College Just One Package Innovation Challenge PAC Packaging Consortium Sobey's Walmart CanadaTwo categories of students and innovators provide their solutions to reduce consumer reliance on single-use packages/bags at retail.
TORONTO—On May 18, 2016, PAC, Packaging Consortium held its Just One Package Innovation Challenge where innovators and students presented their solutions to reduce consumer reliance on single-use packages/bags at retail—with audience members voting for the winners.
Walmart Canada sponsored the Student Competition, while Canadian Tire, Costco, Home Depot, Sobeys, and Walmart Canada participated on the judging panel for both events.
The students of four Canadian colleges and one university were given a fictitious but detailed design brief, requiring them to design a packaging solution in relation to Walmart Canada’s plastic bag waste reduction initiative, which is designed to reduce consumer reliance on single-use bags.
The goal is to eliminate the need to ‘bag’ mid to large sized items, and to design a ‘carrying’ solution into the product’s packaging or instore applications for handling and transportation convenience to the home. The students had the freedom to select any product that would typically be put into a large size carry out bag.
Just One Package Student Competition
1st place:
Conestoga College
Lindsay Van Wyck
Kelly Goodwin
Eduardo Diniz Souza
2nd place
Durham College
Gwenda Thomas
Jasmine Isidoro
3rd Place
Humber College
Amanda McCutcheon
Finalists
Mohawk College
Daniel Slaa
Ryerson University
Alyssa Andino
Elina Shafigullina
For the Just One Package Innovation Challenge:
1st Place:
Enzo Caso and Olivier Van Migem – Reflective Shopper
Finalists:
Corey Capello and Steve Hunter – Celplast and Davik USA
Jim West and Steve Doster – Unisource/Veritiv and 3M
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