Ball Innovations, a business unit of Ball Horticultural Company, has won a Greener Package Award for SoilWrap\u00ae, a bio-based, plantable growing container. The Greener Package Awards competition is sponsored by Summit Publishing\u2019s GreenerPackage.com, and recognizes innovations in five categories that significantly reduce packaging\u2019s environmental footprint.<\/b><\/p>\n
“SoilWrap has been in development for several years and is the result of breakthrough design and materials,\u201d says Bill Doeckel, General Manager of Ball Innovations. “Winning the Greener Package award bestows considerable third-party credibility and prestige for green packaging innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bottomless pot design \u2013 winner in the Non-Food Primary Packaging category \u2013 is made of Mirel\u00ae, a renewable, biodegradable and environmentally friendly material. SoilWrap was designed by Greg Trabka, Sustainable Horticulture Specialist with Ball Innovations.<\/p>\n
SoilWrap offers environmentally friendly solutions to the home gardener. The plantable, printable design addresses the massive landfill waste associated with horticultural plastic. It also saves time during transplanting by approximately 30% as you do not need to remove the plant from the pot, and there are no pots to clean up after planting. Additionally, SoilWrap reduces transplant shock and loss due to breakage during transplanting.<\/p>\n
A total of eight winners were selected by members of the Greener Package Expert Network. According to award organizers, this year\u2019s recipients “demonstrate that sustainability can be found in myriad technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ball Innovations will receive its Greener Package Award and be recognized during The Showcase of Packaging Innovations\u00ae at Pack Expo International, one of the largest packaging shows in the world, October 31 to November 3, in Chicago.<\/p>\n
For more information about Ball Innovations\u2019 sustainable solutions and bio-packaging offerings, visit www.BallHort.com\/Sustainable<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ball Horticultural Company<\/b> is an internationally renowned breeder, producer and wholesale distributor of ornamental plants. A family-owned business since it was founded in 1905, Ball has introduced many innovative, award-winning varieties to the world of horticulture, including the Wave\u00ae petunia family and Super Elfin\u00ae impatiens. Ball is committed to sustainable practices and has highlighted its green accomplishments in its “Sustainability Report.\u201d The company has worldwide production, sales and marketing through its many subsidiaries on six continents. For further information, log on to ballhort.com<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ball Innovations, a business unit of Ball Horticultural Company, has won a Greener Package Award for SoilWrap®, a bio-based, plantable growing container. The Greener Package<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[2087,2088],"class_list":["post-14934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-ball-horticultural-company","supplier-greener-package"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14934"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}