Carter Holt Harvey
Sustainability Award

Award Criteria

This Award applauds packaging that has been reinvented or created to demonstrate a significant advance in environmental considerations and provides a benchmark for its product/market segment.

Entry Submitted By

O-I Australia

Package Title

Lean+Green™ Light Weight Wine Bottle Range

Package Component Manufacturer

O-I Australia (Adelaide Plant)

Package Designer Functional

Julian Ditchburn, Craig Ross

Package Owner

O-I Australia

Comments

In a major breakthrough for bringing sustainable innovations to market, O-I Australia’s designers and manufacturing teams have overcome some formidable technical challenges. Although it will not seem noticeable to the consumer and indeed customers, the environmental and logistical impact of this development is massive. O-I has reduced the weight of selected wine bottles by 18-28% (saving almost 20,000 tonnes of glass packaging /annum). The flow-on effects include a 20% reduction in energy use and a carbon dioxide saving of over 11,130 tonnes per year. Equally impressive is a saving of 12% in water usage per container and overall water savings of 4,720kL per year. An additional achievement is the reduced carbon footprint in freight distribution to packers and customers around the world. The judges were eager to acknowledge the wholeof- industry impact of this lightweight glass.